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Jason Lewis is the founder of Responsive Fundraising.

Direct Mail Rewired Nonprofits — and America — for the Worse. Here’s How to Do Better.

Direct Mail Rewired Nonprofits — and America — for the Worse. Here’s How to Do Better.

Audience segmenting and Zip-code targeting trained nonprofit supporters to accept a passive role in causes they care about. The way forward puts them back at the center of the work.

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What Fundraisers Can Learn From Jerry Falwell and the Conservative Movement

The Moral Majority’s long-game strategy offers a framework for fundraisers seeking sustainable success, regardless of their politics.

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Your Secret Weapon in These Divisive Times? Fundraisers

They have the skills to break through polarization and build bridges to donors with a wide range of views — exactly what organizations need as the new administration takes office and red-blue tensions simmer.

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Are Fundraisers to Blame for the Giving Crisis?

The fundraising powerbrokers at the Generosity Commission overlook their own role in alienating everyday donors.