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Rant on Retention Redux (2025 Edition)
It's been 8 years since my last Rant on Retention and we're still talking about some of the same themes. TL;DR - absolutely retention...
Jul 1, 20254 min read
The Philanthropic Multiverse Chapter 2: In Which a Clipboard Becomes a Weapon, Sector W Proves Unstable, and M.A.R.V.I.N. Absolutely Refuses to Run
Welcome to The Fundraiser’s Guide to the Philanthropic Multiverse—a serialized, satirical journey through a world that’s both absurd and...
May 30, 20259 min read
{Tactic} Is Dead; Long Live {Tactic}
We love to declare things dead in fundraising. We've been sounding the death knell of Direct Mail for 30+ years that I know of. Direct...
May 29, 20255 min read
Chapter 1: In Which Miles and Trayer Witness an Arrival, Argue Over a Sandwich, and Discover a Disturbance in the Data Field
Miles Askew was having a perfectly good Tuesday. He’d made it to the Bureau’s outer quadrant undetected. His shirt had only two coffee...
May 27, 20256 min read
Prologue: In Which a Donor Database Collapses Into Itself and Reality Follows
It began, as these things often do, with a PowerPoint. A 128-slide deck, created by the Bureau of Optimization, Revenue, and Development...
May 27, 20253 min read
They’ll Fund the Playground. Will They Fund the Plumbing?
Can you describe your mission in one sentence without referring to specific, restricted-revenue programs? The hardest story in...
May 12, 20255 min read
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