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Following is a sample donation request letter to be sent to a company. Before you send your letter, make sure you call the company and find out exactly who to address this donation request to. It might be the owner, someone at the public relations department, community outreach office or other contact. It’ll be different [...]

Over the years we’ve come upon lots of useful fundraising information that we’ve been sharing with you through our website. We’ve also come across some great books on different aspects of raising funds and have decided to start compiling a list of our favorite fundraising books and share it with you! You’ll find books with [...]

Donation request letters can be used as just one part of a fundraising campaign, or they can be the fundraising campaign in its entirety. Many organizations prefer to go the route of fundraising entirely through donation request letters because they

require few volunteers, but reach a large number of potential donors
directly target [...]

A fundraising press release can be a powerful, and possibly free marketing tool that can gain your group or organization big exposure.
The purpose of a fundraising press release is to alert appropriate media that a fundraising event is upcoming. Often, local newspapers and TV stations will include the information on a community services page. This [...]

Following is a sample donation request letter to be sent to parents; feel free to copy and customize this letter with your school specific information as needed.
More “free-to-copy” sample donation request letters to follow!
Thank you to Sarah F. for sending in this fundraising letter! She reported that over half the parents who’ve received this [...]