Trevor

Trevor

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What charitable giving feels like for donors

Here’s what fundraising and giving looks like to us fundraisers: We think we are...

Where’s the emotion in your fundraising offer?

You can have all the facts that support your fundraising offer lined up like an ...

When fundraising hints around instead of asking

Here’s the “ask” in a direct mail appeal I recently looked at: Some patient prog...

The power of a one-sentence fundraising offer

A quick way to turn a good offer into a bad one is to over-complicate it. The qu...

Why your fundraising is boring

Your fundraising is boring because you’re spending your time explaining, not ins...

A great fundraising offer does good things for donors

In commercial advertising, copywriters are reminded to “sell the sizzle, not jus...

Two new posts (elsewhere)

Last week ODI/HPG launched a new (and excellent) report on what we can learn fro...

Don’t Just Do It

The leader of the UK’s Labour Party just took action. “I would, of course, do th...

The Proportionality of Our Attention

Depending on how you look at it, it was Day 4 or Year 8 of the war in Ukraine wh...

Maintaining Standards

While the views expressed below may appear critical of localization, this blogsi...

IHL in the Crosshairs

In the wake of my imbalanced reaction to the Ukraine war, I worry that too much ...

The human need to act

Preface. My friend and colleague Sean Healy died last night and it hurts. Too so...

Not in Our Name

[I have been drafting and delaying the posting of a number of blogs related to G...

Resetting our standards

Here is Friday’s Gaza headline: “Israel’s defense chief says military ‘thoroughl...

The Prosthetic Breast of Humanitarian Action

SPARKED BY OUTSIDERS 1. Sometimes I am struck by artists and other creators who ...

When deaths count

Here is the headline we did not see these past two days: “Seven aid workers died...