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Unique Fundraisers
Looking for some unique fundraising ideas? Over the years, I’ve come across quite a few good ideas for unique fundraisers. You can find a lot of them being discussed in our forum and learn how to raise maximum funds with any of our fundraising...
Penguin Pirates Blog Promo
Just ran across a funny blog traffic promo that I just had to join! Besides the penguin pirates, there’s a growing list of blogs worth reading that a group of bloggers are sharing. I’ll be updating my list daily as the promo gets rolling....
$64,000 Raised in Pants Fundraiser
$54 Million Pants Star in Fundraiser for Couple Cleaned Out by Legal Fees A now-famous pair of pants was the star attraction at a fundraiser Tuesday meant to help pay the bills of a dry-cleaner couple caught in a legal stitch. The $54 million pants,...
Stop Obsessing About PageRank
This is a bit of a rant about how some webmasters get totally obsessed with the Google PageRank of their site and spend a ton of time trying to boost their PR instead of trying to provide better answers/solutions to their site visitors needs. So, it...
Relay For Life Cancer Cookbook
Cookbook more than a fundraiser for Canadian Cancer Society - Many west coast residents will be Cooking For Life this summer. Andrea Newell, community resource co-ordinator for the Canadian Cancer Society, said the fundraiser in aid of the society...
Fundraising: How to recruit more volunteers
Fundraiser Preparation: Recruiting Volunteers How to advice on recruiting volunteers and the best ways to handle personnel assignments. Start early As previously discussed, to get enough volunteers you need to start early. The best way to do that is...
eBay Auction Niche Finder
Wonder how you’ll ever find a profitable niche on eBay? Blindly diving in to a new product niche without knowing the competitive landscape and potential profit margins is a quick way to go broke! If you want to avoid that pain and turn a tidy p...
Yale Student Critically Injured On Fundraising Bike Ride
Yale fund-raiser ‘critical’ after Kansas accident A Yale University student was in critical condition in a Kansas hospital Tuesday after he was hit by a car during a cross-country Habitat for Humanity Bicycle Challenge fund-raiser. Dan Lewi...
Appeal Letter Tips
The Art Of The Appeal Letter What’s the best way to raise money? Face-to-face, of course. What’s the best way to raise money when you have 2,000 or 200,000 people on your mailing list and not enough volunteers to make all those visits? Th...
Eight Rules For Fundraising Letters
Eight Cardinal Rules For Donation Requests When writing a donation request letter, there are eight cardinal rules to follow. Failure to follow these rules will weaken your message, lower your response rate, and substantially reduce donation size. Her...
Car Raffle Tips
Organizing A Successful Car Raffle Putting together a car raffle is not as hard as you think. The key ingredient is having a large group of ticket sellers who market the raffle chances to the general public. Everything besides ticket sales can be han...
Best Fundraisers
Top Fundraising Products, Events and Raffles Here are the top producing fundraising products, event ideas, and raffles that produce the best results. Fundraising Products Fundraising Cards - Fundraising cards are easy fundraisers - Extra profit tips...
Appeal Letter
Tips On Writing a Letter Of Appeal When writing an appeal letter, you have to play to your reader’s emotions. Your letter must rouse an emotional response with it’s first paragraph, not blandly recite boring facts. Grab their interest by...
Approach Your Fundraiser Like A Business
How To Boost Your Fundraising Results The best way to boost your fundraising results is to get your product offer, raffle, or event information in front of as many people as possible. It’s all about approaching your fundraiser as a business and...
Fundraiser Raffle Ideas
Here's a collection of fundraiser raffle ideas that can raise significant amounts of money for your group. Cow Chip Fundraiser - A cow chip fundraiser is a great family-style fundraising event - How to get a big turnout and raise substantial amounts...
Golf Ball Drop Raffle
Golf Balls From Above Fundraiser Event Often referred to as Golf Balls From Heaven or Golf Balls From Above, a golf ball drop raffle makes an excellent fundraiser event. The premise is straightforward. You sell numbered raffle chances based on the wi...
Fundraising Event Publicity
How To Publicize Your Fundraiser Event Here are some publicity tips on promoting your fundraiser event. Getting publicity is the key factor in having a big turnout to support your cause, so you need to know how to get newspaper, radio, and TV coverag...
Donation Letter Tips
Eight Tips For A Successful Donation Letter The art of writing effective fundraising donation letters can be learned. I learned it and so can you. Here are eight tips for writing your own donation appeal. Successful fund raising letters share a numbe...
Nonprofit Website SEO
How To Attract More Donations Few organizations would benefit more from search engine marketing than charities. And yet most agencies still seem content with simply having a website. They don't seem to realize the potential a successfully optimized w...
Fundraising Event Ideas
Looking for some new fundraising event ideas? Here are some articles on excellent fundraiser events plus profit tips for maximizing your revenue. Also, turnout is extremely important to having a successful event, so be sure to follow the advice on ge...
Relay For Life Fundraising Ideas 2
Relay For Life Fundraising Ideas There are many ways to raise funds for your team's American Cancer Society's Relay For Life event. You can sell merchandise, fundraising products, put together events of your own, or send letters seeking donations or...
Grant Writing
How To Apply For Nonprofit Grants A lot of people have questions about grant writing in general and specifically tips on finding sources and how to fill out applications. Grant proposals are different with every non-profit funding source or corporat...
Credit Card Fundraiser
Credit Card Fundraising Considering a credit card fundraiser? There are two types to choose from - an online signup referral program or an affinity credit card. The two credit card fundraising approaches are completely different. The first one pays y...
What's In It For Me?
What's In It For Me? Believe it or not, providing a good answer to the question of “What's in it for me?” is extremely important to your fundraising success. And why is that? Because ultimately, everyone's focus is on themselves. As the...
Fundraising Sample
How To Get Fundraising Product Samples Many groups would like to see a fundraising sample before finalizing their fundraiser product choice. In the past, it's been difficult to find a reputable company that will send you some free samples without obl...
Accept Credit Card Donations
Guide To Accepting Donations Online A lot of groups want to accept credit card donations or fundraising auction payments online, but don't know how to do it. There are three main ways to accept payments online: use PayPal, use a nonprofit credit card...
Selling Raffle Tickets
How to Sell Raffle Tickets A lot of groups need help with selling raffle tickets because there isn't much in the way of good ticket sales advice out there. So, here are some tips on how to sell raffle tickets that should double or triple your revenue...
Charity Events
Charity Event Ideas Looking to boost revenue from your charity events or searching for some new charity event ideas? Here are some suggestions for event ideas, increasing turnout, additional fundraising strategies, and tips for adding raffles and sil...
Cheesecake Calendar Fundraiser
Fundraising Calendar Profit Tips What exactly is a cheesecake calendar fundraiser? It's a calendar with “tongue-in-cheek” photos of community members combined with delicious cheesecake recipes on every page. The cheesecake aspect gives it...
Relay For Life - Fundraisers
I get tons of questions about fundraisers for Relay For Life: What works best? How can I raise funds quick? What should I do? Groups are doing simple food events like pancake breakfasts, spaghetti dinners, and bake sales. Some do dine-arounds where r...
