Here’s my column in this month’s FundRaising Success magazine, Fundraising Urban Legends Debunked.
Teaser: All the major ad agencies are owned by Beelzebub Holdings, and the work they do for nonprofits is part of a diabolical plot to make the nonprofit community appear to be clinically insane. They do this in hopes that nobody will donate anything ever, either so they can spend more on useless consumer goods or to prevent good deeds from being done.
Dear Jeff,
Wow, I had never heard this one. Are there some more that I should know? I mean, we know that selling popcorn for schools isn’t effective, but EVIL? That’s going a bit far!
Mazarine
http://wildwomanfundraising.com
Dear Jeff,
Wow, I had never heard this one. Are there some more that I should know? I mean, we know that selling popcorn for schools isn’t effective, but EVIL? That’s going a bit far!
Mazarine
http://wildwomanfundraising.com
The future of fundraising is not about social media, online video, or SEM. It’s not about any technology, medium, or technique. It’s about donors. If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them. And the future? It’s already here. More.
Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 35 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you’ll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com. More.
The future of fundraising is not about social media, online video, or SEM. It’s not about any technology, medium, or technique. It’s about donors. If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them. And the future? It’s already here. More.
Jeff Brooks has been serving the nonprofit community for more than 30 years and blogging about it since 2005. He considers fundraising the most noble of pursuits and hopes you’ll join him in that opinion. You can reach him at jeff [at] jeff-brooks [dot] com.
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