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Thinking for local fundraisers.

What we're learning about building owned audiences and funding community work — written for charity leaders, not marketers. New piece each month.

Strategy · August 2026

I published for ten years. Here's what I got wrong.

Publishing isn't distribution — the lesson from a decade of writing that only ever earned a search ranking, and the four kinds of attention every charity should know.

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The manifesto · July 2026

Charities do extraordinary work. Why don't we hear about it?

The perception gap that keeps community charities underfunded — and why telling the story is a funding strategy, not a luxury.

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Strategy · July 2026

Own the audience, rent the reach.

Why an email and SMS list your charity owns beats platform reach — and how campaigns can fund audience growth instead of draining it.

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