Monthly Archives: November 2009

How to raise money from people who hate you

When it comes to fundraising, there’s transformational, transactional…and aversional? Just in time for your year-end fundraising, ThinkGeek is now offering the SnūzNLūz Wi-Fi Donation alarm clock: The SnūzNLūz uses the very complex psychological phenomemon known as ‘HATRED’. Basically it’s human … Continue reading

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Forget “donors” and “nonprofits”. Think “cause cloud”.

Truth: “Giving” today is less and less synonymous with “giving to a nonprofit organization”. This is the challenge for groups like Holden Karnofsky’s GiveWell and Charity Navigator, which dream of a day when donors can consult objective rankings of charities’ … Continue reading

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“Why people give” is less the question than whether people impact the cause directly or indirectly

While we’ve been hacking through the Engagement underbrush in the last half month’s series of posts, the rest of the philanthroblogger world has been grappling anew with the questions of social impact and personal impact as giving motivators (the four … Continue reading

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