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Prepping For Your First Foundation Site Visit
It’s been six weeks since you spent considerable time and effort researching the regional foundations and sending out eight new proposals in support of a planned educational initiative on behalf of your three-year-old community arts organization. So when the phone rings and it’s program officer...
Raising Money Online with Social Media
This is a guest post from nonprofit fundraising coach, author, speaker, and trainer Sandy Rees, CFRE, author of the blog Get Fully Funded. Raising money online isn’t so different from raising money in person. You have to find potential donors, tell your story, and ask for a gift. Still, it’s...
Grants: Do You Have a System in Place?
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. JOHN DEWEY Charity Channel, always a great barometer of the world of nonprofits, recently posted a question from a member: We are trying to put some numbers to a part time grant writer. We are a $35 million agency and have sporadically applied for...
Foundation Prospect Research – On a Shoestring
Back in the day when I was running an entire development department alone on a tight budget, I recognized the importance of regular foundation prospecting research. Once a month or so I would trek into Philadelphia to spend a day at the public library researching funders on using Foundation Center,...
The One Secret to Increasing Your Individual Giving Exponentially!
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. William James Recently the following post to one of the Charity Channel forums caught my eye: We just completed a market survey and one of the things that came out of this is that donors who cannot give at leadership levels do not...
