by Mazarine | Oct 8, 2013 | Celebrities, Fundraising 101, Marketing
Are you doing an indiegogo or kickstarter campaign? Are you wondering how to make your goal when your mom gave you $200 but your goal is $5,000 and it seems so hopeless? Recently I was approached by the marvelous Connie Simmons to help with a Kickstarter campaign to...
by Mazarine | Nov 9, 2011 | Celebrities, Conflict, corruption, Culture clash, Marketing
Then Guy Debord has something to say to you. “In its most advanced sectors, a highly concentrated capitalism has begun selling “fully equipped” blocks of time, each of which is a complete commodity combining a variety of other commodities. This is...
by Mazarine | Feb 28, 2011 | Celebrities, Fundraising 101, Marketing
This video is very um… just don’t watch it at work, okay? You will have a hard time explaining it to passerby. Yes, Association of Fundraising Professionals, I’d just like you to see this little video! Did anyone else see this image and laugh really...
by Mazarine | Feb 10, 2011 | Appeals, Celebrities, Conflict, Cultivating donors, Fundraising 101, Philanthropy, women
This last week, Katya Anderson wrote about the numbing of our compassion when we have heard lots of statistics and lots of stories. I was just reading about this trend in “Half the Sky” and it frankly shocked me, that people could care less and less about...
by Mazarine | Jan 27, 2011 | Book, Celebrities, Conflict, corruption, Culture clash, Fundraising 101
Lately I’ve been reading “Half the Sky” by Sheryl WuDunn, and Nicholas Kristof, about fundraising and international aid efforts. It is extremely well-researched, and well-written. Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American ever to be awarded the...
by Mazarine | Dec 14, 2010 | Celebrities, corruption, Leadership, Marketing, Measuring Effectiveness, women
I’m not Catholic or anything, but Dorothy Day was pretty damn special. Ms. Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She also described herself as a Christian...
