Hiring a Fundraising Consultant

Fundraising consultants are hired by large and small organizations to help with their campaigns. If you think your organization may benefit from working with a fundraising consultant, there are several things to consider: What Is a Fundraising Consultant? A fundraising consultant is an individual (or ...

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Simple and Low Cost Fundraisers You Can Run With Few Resources and Few Volunteers

The to-do list for running ‘traditional’ fundraisers like candy fundraisers, dances and special events, auctions, raffles and yard sales can be endless: buying and storing products for sale, producing and distributing flyers, making phone calls, keeping track of product inventory and sales, taking kids door ...

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Fundraising Idea: A Halloween Pumpkin Fundraiser

Halloween is a great time for fundraisers, because usually people don’t have family or travel commitments on this holiday. There are different ways to use a Halloween favorite – the pumpkin – to raise funds for your organization: Pumpkin Patch You can purchase pumpkins in ...

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Tips for Setting up Fundraiser Booths & Shows

Fundraising booths are elemental in fundraising; and there are plenty of opportunities to set up a fundraising booth of any kind. Where to Set up Fundraising Booths Fundraising booths can be set up by themselves in areas of high traffic for a solitary event, or ...

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Wanted – Volunteers: Recruiting Volunteers For Your Fundraiser

For obvious reasons, volunteers are essential to the success and profitability of any fundraising campaign. But finding willing and able volunteers can be a tricky thing; sure, every parent or member of your group should want to see your organization succeed and meet its fundraising ...

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A Reason To Sell – Incentive Ideas For Fundraising Projects

In a perfect world, all benefactors of your fundraising campaign would step up every time to do their part in your fundraising campaign. But ours not being a perfect world, that’s probably not going to happen. To make the most of your fundraiser, it often ...

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Bowling for Dollars: A Bowling Fundraiser

One attractive and relatively easy way to raise needed cash is a bowling fundraiser. One of the advantages of this approach to fundraising is that you don’t need a lot of money to start out with to hold the fundraiser. Smaller organizations that don’t have ...

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Let The Games Begin: A Carnival Fundraiser

Want to raise money, have lots of fun, and get everyone in your organization involved all at the same time? Hold a carnival fundraiser! A carnival fundraiser doesn’t have to include expensive rides, as long as you have plenty of fun games to offer. Besides ...

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Using Customized Notecards to Raise Money

The following is a guest post by Galit Fraser, owner of My Notecard Maker. Thanks you for the fundraising idea Galit! Notecard fundraisers are easy, economical, and popular, especially with schools and churches.  They offer a great way to showcase students’ art, photos of animals, ...

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Video Volunteers, Mobile Phones And Your Cause

Following are some resources to help you with marketing and promoting your cause and learning more about using social media in your communication efforts. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments section! YouTube Video Volunteers Would you like to use YouTube to ...

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Thank You Letter For Donation – Community

Following is a sample ‘thank you’ letter for donation to be sent to a community. Feel free to copy and customize this thank you letter for donations with your group’s specific information as needed. (Are you looking for a different kind of fundraising letter?)   ...

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Fundraising Website Checkup

It’s a good idea to tweak and improve, or set up your fundraising website now, before the major fundraising activities start in the Fall. We have several articles on raising funds online on this topic, but would like to also point out the results of ...

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Monthly Contributions Improve Fundraising Cash Flow

If your organization’s cash flow is a little rocky right now, you might want to take a look at setting up a monthly giving program for individual donors. These giving programs can help individuals contribute to your organization easily and can help ensure that you ...

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Guidelines for Using Grant Money

Congratulations! You’ve become the official recipient of a grant! Now what? Well, the first thing to do, once you’ve received the money either in the form of a check or sometimes as part of a contract, is to write back to the grant foundation and ...

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Give Great Deals: Start Discount Card Fundraiser

Want a fundraiser that supports local businesses, keeps money in your community, has the publicity and support of area merchants, is welcomed by supporters and raises big funds fast? Sound impossible? Read on and learn about Discount Card fundraisers. What is a discount card fundraiser? ...

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