fundraising events

Creative fundraising ideas for the new year

It’s the beginning of another season of giving with the start of a new year and new opportunities for making a difference for a cause you care about! Here are our top fundraising ideas for kicking off 2011 with a bang and finding ways to give every month of the year. January Include a fundraising [...]

Steps to maximize your matching gifts dollars: a free webinar

Corporate matching is one of the most helpful ways to meet your nonprofit fundraising goals. It’s also one of the least utilized: if you’re not asking, they’re not giving. Please join us on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 3:00-3:45 PM EDT for a live online presentation, “Steps to Maximize your Matching Gift Dollars.” You’ll learn [...]

Pre-event success checklist for nonprofits

So it is 4-6 weeks before your “BIG EVENT” and you may not have raised as much money as you hoped…..well it is not too late to reach your goals!! During this “homestretch” period as we like to call it, there are a few things you and your fundraisers can do. Help your fundraisers personalize [...]

Keep plugging: 30% of fundraising happens after the event

Finishline

I was downtown this weekend and passed by the finish line of the Boston Marathon.  If I had started the race last week, this was probably about the time I would actually have finished.  But the fact that the line was still bright yellow despite a week of traffic rolling over it reminded me that [...]