Comments on: Economic Troubles: Featured Fundraiser Tom McLagan http://www.asmallchange.net/economic-troubles-featured-fundraiser-tom-mclagan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-troubles-featured-fundraiser-tom-mclagan Making Sense of Fundraising Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:58:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Neil Pursey http://www.asmallchange.net/economic-troubles-featured-fundraiser-tom-mclagan/#comment-424 Neil Pursey Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:25:28 +0000 http://www.asmallchange.net/?p=265#comment-424 An interesting point of view, as money dries up. It should theoretically affect donations. So what do we do? Do we sit back and wait for government funding or do we go out and search media channels in which to gain market share for our organisation? I prefer the latter, we need to be more pro-active in terms of receiving funding. I like the following quote from Richard Buckmeister, "There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes." NGO's should take on the same attitude : ) An interesting point of view, as money dries up. It should theoretically affect donations. So what do we do? Do we sit back and wait for government funding or do we go out and search media channels in which to gain market share for our organisation? I prefer the latter, we need to be more pro-active in terms of receiving funding.

I like the following quote from Richard Buckmeister, “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.”

NGO’s should take on the same attitude : )

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