Today, we present our annual list of the year’s top 5 Fundraising Authority articles, as judged by the number of readers who read each post. If you missed any of …
Getting your key supporters to make – and stick to – personal fundraising goals is one of the toughest tasks that small and mid-sized non-profits face. When it comes to …
Many small and mid-sized charities rely on volunteers to do their fundraising for them. Whether though participatory fundraising like walk-a-thons and candy bar sales or through major donor groups or …
Quick fundraising usually isn’t good fundraising. Most of the time, non-profits are well advised to spend time getting to know their prospects and donors, cultivating them, and executing a well-written …
Sometimes, fundraising is boring. Monotonous. A drudgery. That’s bad for professional fundraisers (who wants to be bored at work?), it’s bad for volunteers (they’ll move on to another, more exciting …
While online fundraising is a necessity for non-profit organizations of all sizes, many groups that have enthusiastically embraced social media to build awareness and community are wary of raising money through e-mail. …
One of the reasons I started The Fundraising Authority was because I knew that there was a real dearth of good, solid fundraising information available online, particularly for small and …
The vast majority of charitable organizations in the world are relatively small. They fly under the radar screen, without the news stories and sizeable bequests generated by the flashier national …
Raising money by designing and selling cookbooks used to be extremely popular, and still raises a good deal of money for many non-profits, particularly schools and churches. The basic idea …
Lots of schools, churches, and other charities turn to selling candy bars or other sweets as a way to raise money and have fun with their volunteers and supporters. Candy …
I get lots of “fundraising how to” questions… many people, even those who are full time development professionals, find some fundraising strategies confusing and difficult to implement. Below are two …
In the non-profit world, we don’t always often talk in terms of “profit.” That word is usually reserved for the business world… and we who work in charitable development often …
Once a non-profit starts to gain steam, raise a decent amount of money, and build a sizeable donor list, it often finds that that the organizational tools it used as …
Next to making personal fundraising asks, grant-writing is probably the tactic that scares new fundraisers the most. Grants seem mysterious and technical, and it often seems as if it takes …
Participatory fundraising is the strategy of using dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people, participating in a single even or campaign, to raise money for an organization. Things like walk-a-thons, collecting …
To many organizations, fundraising through the mail seems like the end-all, be-all tactic. It’s a way to raise money without having to ask in person (or over the phone), it …
