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Articles and excerpts on this subject
- The Before Budget vs. The After Math from Secrets of Successful Fundraising
- 50 Ways to Make Your Next Auction a Success from cMarket Learning Center
- Frictionless Fundraising: How the Internet Can Bring Fundraising Back into Balance by Michael Gilbert
- Fundraising from US Companies from Fundraising from America
- Getting to Yes from "Dear Association Leader"
- The Happiness of Giving: The Time-Ask Effect, by Wendy Liu and Jennifer Aaker (2008-51 pg PDF), Center for Responsible Business. Concludes that people asked to volunteer give more money than those who are not.
- How Charities Can Raise Money With Twitter and Other Social-Networking Tools. transcript of live discussion in Nov. 2008 held by The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Social-Media Workshop: How Nonprofit Groups Can Use Online Tools to Build Awareness and Raise Money, transcript of a live online discussion by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 2009.
- Top Ten Reasons for Becoming a Fund Raiser from Accent on Humor book set: The Wit and Wisdom of Philanthropy
- Using an Online
Auction to Raise Program Funds, outlining the
experience of the The Northern Arizona Regional Gerontology Institute with Mission Fish
- Volunteers and Donors - More Alike than Different by Susan J. Ellis from The NonProfit Times
Free electronic books on this subject
The Can Do Events Guide by Oxford Inspires (2007)
A guide to
running events in Oxfordshire (UK) but the help and guidance in terms of
how to set up an event is generic.
Web sites with useful information on this subject
Bank of America Philanthropic Management
https://www.bankofamerica.com/philanthropic/fn_search.actionSite that provides detailed information about the grantmaking focus of approximately 70 foundations, including their missions, application procedures, proposal deadlines, and contact information. Currently (2008), the site is an introductory portal for foundations distributing charitable grants in: Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island.
Benevon Model of Fundraising
http://www.benevon.com/resources/model_overview-1
Founded by Terry Axelrod,
Benevon trains and coaches nonprofit organizations to implement a mission-based system for raising sustainable funding from individual donors. A free overview of their model is available here.
Contributions
Magazine Archive Library
http://www.contributionsmagazine.com/feature.html
Archived articles on all
aspects of fundraising and other related issues from this bimonthly
print publication.
Developing Volunteer Projects Toolkit
http://www.behandson.org/wiki/developing-volunteer-projects-toolkit
The Foundation
Center FAQs
http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/faqs/full_list.html
The venerable Foundation Center site has lots of information for grantseekers, and this FAQ list is great, especialy for beginners.
The Grantsmanship
Center Magazine
http://www.tgci.com/magazine/archives.asp
Archives of articles on all aspects of fundraising.
GrantStation
http://www.grantstation.com/
Great amount of information on how to fundraise through grants, including a multi-part explanation of "Understanding the Philanthropic Landscape":
http://www.grantstation.com/Public/tracks_to_success/p/main.asp
GrassrootsFundraising.org Online Archive
http://grassrootsfundraising.org/magazine/archives.html
Articles on ways small organizations can raise funds.Greenability
http://www.greenability.org/
Canadian fundraising expert
Ken Wyman offers several free articles and guides to grassroots
fundraising and special events.
"A Guide to Investing
in Volunteer Resources Management: Improve Your Philanthropic Portfolio"
http://www.community.ups.com/downloads/pdfs/guide.pdf
ICVolunteers
Unique international program offering the management of volunteers for nonprofit conferences and events, at no charge except expenses. For eligibility details and a summary of their work, see:
http://www.icvolunteers.org/index.php?what=ser&id=6Institute of Fundraising (UK)
http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/
Has developed a series of codes of practice in fundraising for the UK. See especially their 2005 release, "Volunteer Fundraising Code."Network for Good Learning Center
Provides online fundraising services and training to nonprofit organizations through fundraising tools, e-newsletter communications, free teleconferences presented by industry leaders and its Learning Center (www.fundraising123.org). In 2008 it acquired ePhilanthropy.org.The NonProfit Times Grant Search
http://www.nptgrantsearch.com/
Free, searchable database of more than 4,000 $1 million+ corporate donations, including the category of “philanthropy/voluntarism.”
Philanthropic
Capacity Building Resource Database
http://www.humaninteract.org/reports/pcbrdatabase.asp
Human Interaction Resource
Institute offers snapshots of foundation funding for "capacity
building." Page also gives Web site links to other sites
concerned with nonprofit support.
PlanetFriendly.net
http://www.planetfriendly.net/promote.html
"How to Organize & Promote
an Event or Meeting"
portal and guide for activists.
PTO Today
"Focus on Fundraising"
http://www.ptotoday.com/fundraising
Archived articles on all
sorts of fundraising ideas for leaders of parent/teacher groups
but applicable to any organization.
SixDegrees.org
http://www.sixdegrees.org/
Any one person is connected to any other person through six or fewer relationships, because it's a small world. SixDegrees.org (founded by Kevin Bacon and Network for Good) is about using this idea to accomplish something good (social networking with a social conscience). Support favorite charities by donating or creating fundraising “badges” — as well as check out the favorite causes of other people, including celebrities.
Volunteer Spot
http://www.volunteerspot.com
Revelant Hot Topic essays
- It’s Volunteers and Money - May '08
- Should We Ask Volunteers to Give Money on Top of Time? - July '04
- Raising Money through Volunteer Labor - June '03
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