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Four Internet Strategies For Fundraising
The Internet offers a platform and set of communications tools that are valuable to all nonprofit organizations in your fundraising activities. Your donors and potential donors often use the Internet to check up on organizations before they make a commitment. Your Internet communications plan can include multiple points of entry – your website, Facebook page, [...]
School Fundraising Ideas – Try Products That Help People
The tightening of fiscal budgets have demanded that many schools take more of a business approach towards their fundraising activities, sending the student body out in the neighborhoods with boxes of candy no longer meets the financial needs of most education systems. To increase revenue schools are looking for products that deliver a higher ROI [...]
5 Awareness Raising Fundraisers
There are some fundraisers that are just so rewarding because they offer something more than just funds. Some of these fundraising ideas are what I call, “Awareness Raising Fundraisers!” These fundraising ideas will raise you funds, as well as awareness for your cause! And this in turn, will help you raise more funds! So here [...]
Cookie Dough Fundraising Without Stress
If you’re involved in a school group, you know money is tight. You also know that fundraising has become a fact of life for most schools. The funds raised cover what the budget can’t. Things like supplies, field trips, new books or computers and other key parts of education would be lacking without it. Every [...]
6 Mistakes Fundraisers Make and How to Avoid Them
Make Sure You’re Asking for the Right Amount Keep Track of Your Success Rate Learn the Rules, Then Break Them Keep in Touch with Your Grantors, Even When You Aren’t Asking for Money Participate in Grant Review Committees and Learn How Proposals Are Scored First Hand If You Get Declined, Find Out Why A Closer [...]
How Your Next Fundraiser Can Be a Success
One of the very key points for success from a fundraiser is to be able to generate excitement about it. Excitement can be quite infectious and it should spread throughout your group and out onto your supporters. You need to answer these questions below before you launch your next fundraiser: 1. How much money do [...]
Raise More Donations With Fundraising Letters by Making it Convenient For Donors to Respond
I had a client who wanted to drive prospective customers to his online store using a postcard. Great idea, I thought, and cost effective. He had a terrific product, a compelling offer, and a sound business model. He had just one problem. He wanted to make all website visitors register before they could browse his [...]
Friendly Fundraising Letters – Six Easy Ways to Warm Up Your Next Donation Request
Which would you read first (and right to the end): a typed, generic fundraising letter from the Red Cross or a hand-written letter from your grandma Hostetler in Muleshoe, TX? I’d choose the personal letter over the impersonal every time. And so would your donors. The secret to making your impersonal fundraising letter personal is [...]
Five Fundraising Ideas For Profitable School Fundraisers
Five ideas for ensuring that your next fundraiser (and the one after that) is as successful as it can be.
Fundraisers Made Easy
So you know that you want to host this fundraiser but aren’t sure how to set in into motion. It could be for your school or a company or an organization that you know. Well, this article is written to help you get things rolling and to plan this fundraising event in a way that’s [...]