The Agitator

MAY 23, 2018

This time, I’m going with a non-fundraising book: Hacking Marketing by Scott Brinker of Chief Marketing Technologist fame. The idea is how to take the lessons from the agile software development movement and apply them to more traditional marketing. Intimate customer tribes over impersonal mass markets.

Marketing 45

Marketing Marketing Participation and motivation Donor Motivation 45

iMarketSmart

MARCH 20, 2022

In one experiment, people could donate to help children in a famine. For some people, donations helped five pictured children. For other people, donations helped only one of the five children. For some people, the drugs would save eight children. The requests included the children’s names, ages, and pictures.

Organizational Behavior 52

Organizational Behavior Children Fundraising Fundraising 52

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Understanding the psychology behind giving can help you understand the donor’s motivation, which will help you plan your next campaign, your next fundraising event, or your next face-to-face ask. Donors may give out of empathy, sympathy, fear, guilt, or even anger. What makes someone give to one organization versus another one?

Altruism and Helping 132

Altruism and Helping Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Participation and motivation 132