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- The Agitator
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Gets you up to speed on fundraising in Australia. Lots of real campaign case studies
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See the creative from the world’s best fundraising campaigns

When online only donation receipts is a brand issue
Six weeks after the end of financial year and we finally have all the tax receipts for the donations we made. But it was a hard slog getting them all.<br

Part 2: You’re forcing me to do WHAT to donate?
This is the follow up to the original post on how you’re losing web donations.
Given we were only halfway through all our donating for the (now) last financial year

Why did donors give $1 million to Folau?
As a fundraiser, I’ve seen outrage of a different sort when it comes to the controversy over Israel Folau’s fundraising effort.
Many people responded to the $1 million plus raised

When your fundraising personalisation fails
It came in a cute, non-DLX envelope. Greeting card sized.It was printed on smaller than A4, stationery-sized paper.It started with a lovely thank you.Then it was RUINED by personalisation gone

You’re forcing me to do WHAT to donate?
Okay, my husband and I are at that time of year. We’re in donation mode. We’ve made the list of charities we’re going to give to and how much we’re

Is your fundraising driven by corporate, academic, program or journalism communications?
Ask yourself this.
What type of communications is really driving your fundraising?
Because if you’re serious about raising funds – as opposed to raising awareness or educating people

Fundraising envelopes that stand out
I am utterly swamped with tax appeal work currently but when the mail came in today, I took a quick look to see if anything stood out.
The image

Donor complaints – 7 ways to handle them
Following on from my post about donor complaints, I promised some positive ways to deal with donor complaints. Because it’s always unpleasant having to deal with a donor who

8 donors complained – what would you do?
Would you change your fundraising based on 8 complaints?
It seems like a lot when you’re the person who’s copping the angry donors… but in the case of my