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The Funny Little Robot That Can Help You Raise a Lot More Money

March 31, 2025
Jeff Brooks
Fun
If you believe the Frankenstein movies, it seems every Lab comes with a helpful assistant who does all the busy work for you. Their name is Igor (sometimes pronounced “Eye-gore”), and you can count on them when things are difficult.…
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Our Readers Speak: the Top 3 Moceanic Blog Posts of All Time

December 2, 2024
Jeff Brooks
Tribute
The Moceanic Blog started posting in 2015.  In Blog Years, that’s back in the Jurassic Age. In that time, we’ve published hundreds of posts about all kinds of fundraising topics. We hope every post is super helpful to fundraisers everywhere.…
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Last Years Appeal Best Ever. This Years Appeal More Than DOUBLE that

Last Year’s Appeal: Best Ever. This Year’s Appeal: More Than DOUBLE that!

August 23, 2021
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising Training Needs
Kristen Brown, Associate Director at the Wyoming Outdoor Council, wasn’t sure if joining The Fundraisingology Lab by Moceanic was worthwhile. “I’d tried a few other trainings,” she says, “and I was hesitant to try another resource, so I put it…
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How I Succeeded Wildly at My First Ever Fundraising Campaign

How I Succeeded Wildly at My First-Ever Fundraising Campaign

August 16, 2021
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising Training Needs
Your organization has never done a fundraising appeal before. You have a core of supporters who follow and love your work, but you’ve never actually asked them for money. Now you need to ask. Scary? Just ask Patricia Mackenzie, Development…
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Shocker: The Biggest Problem in Fundraising

May 2, 2017
Jeff Brooks
Boards and Fundraising, Trends
You spoke, I listened, and you freaked me out a little! I’ve been in the fundraising space for a long time — approaching 30 years. That’s enough time to get married, have a couple of kids, and raise them into…
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“Sign the Enclosed Placenta”: The Weird Power of Errors in Fundraising

April 22, 2017
Jeff Brooks
Donor Psychology
Don’t you hate making errors? They make you look and feel stupid. But errors are funny things. It’s impossible to predict what damage they’ll do. Surprisingly often, they hurt your pride a lot more than they hurt anything else. We…
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A Moment of Change – From Jeff Brooks

April 11, 2017
Jeff Brooks
Fundraising
Remember that scene in The Wizard of Oz when Dorothy’s house is finally dropped to earth by the tornado, and she cautiously opens the door to see where she is? As the door opens, you see outside — and it’s blazing with saturated, bright…
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Digital Fundraising Beyond Doggies and Dolphins

March 20, 2017
Sean Triner
Digital Fundraising, Trends
The Soi Dog Foundation and Australia for Dolphins have had enormous success in global fundraising using the digital ‘multi-step’ approach. Although based in Thailand and Australia respectively, the two charities fundraised globally with shocking images, which helped them get traction.…
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Who Needs a Funny New Word? Well, You and I Do!

January 26, 2017
Sean Triner
Fundraising
Moceanic: It’s about love, depth, and how together we are going to change the world by changing the way we do fundraising. I’m really grateful to you for reading my articles. It’s your comments, feedback, and participation that gave me…
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