5 Things You Need to Know About Individual Fundraising

Individual fundraising (raising money from individuals) should form the backbone of 90% of all development organizations that exist today.  All types of fundraising are important to carrying out your mission, and none can be discounted, but non-profits that can successfully rely on events, direct mail, or grants are the exception, not the rule, and generally [...]

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Top 5 Articles of 2009

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 these articles… be sure to check them out:
1.  Five Unique Fundraising Ideas
2.  The 10 Steps to a Successful Fundraising Event
3.  How to Write a Fundraising [...]

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Helping Your Team Set Personal Fundraising Goals

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 your board, your major donor groups, your key fundraising volunteers and large event hosts, getting them to nail down set fundraising targets can be tricky, [...]

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Volunteer Fundraising Do’s and Don’ts

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 small volunteer-hosted events, many non-profits generate a significant portion of their revenue thanks to the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers.
Using volunteer fundraising is [...]

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5 Best Quick Fundraising Methods

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 fundraising plan to raise the money they need to operate.
Of course, there are times when every organization, no matter how well run, comes into financial [...]

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5 Unique Fundraising Ideas

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 challenge), and worst of all, it’s bad for donors.  And that’s why coming up with unique fundraising ideas matters.
Donors get tired of the same old [...]

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Fundraising E-mail Do’s and Don’ts

While fundraising over the Internet is one of the hottest modern trends for non-profit organizations of all sizes, many groups that have enthusiastically embraced the web have been wary of raising money through e-mail.  If you don’t add fundraising e-mail to your Internet mix, you are missing out on truly maximizing your online giving program.  [...]

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Great Fundraising Resources on the Web

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 medium sized non-profits.  That being said, there are some good fundraising resources available on the web.  Today, we present four you may want to check [...]

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