Resources/Useful links
By heather on March 15, 2007 - 10:59am
Aspiration's leadership team met a couple of days ago to discuss and update our fundraising strategy for the year. We divided the meeting into three fundraising strategy areas.
1. Individual Donors
2. Corporate Funding/Events Sponsorship
3. Foundation Funding
We are following a different strategy for each fundraising area. If you are new to fundraising or need a refresher course, here's a brief description of each fundraising area.
1. Individual Donors:
By heather on March 14, 2007 - 1:28pm
Last night I facilitated, "Starting a Nonprofit" group at the Craigslist Foundation nonprofit night. As we were discussing fiscal sponsorship options for start-up organizations, I said, "there are very few organizations who provide fiscal sponsorship."
Please prove me wrong!
By heather on February 8, 2007 - 1:05pm
Here are three Nonprofit eNewsletters I read.
1. tm Consulting Services HR eNewsletter:
I have no idea how I got subscribed to this eNewsletter, however Ted Medeiros, an nonprofit HR expert in California provides helpful HR tips and resources that I can apply and use in my nonprofit. His HR tips are helpful for nonprofits outside of California too.
By heather on January 18, 2007 - 1:29am
1. Thanks to the Mission Based Management Blog for making me aware of this! The Center for Civil Society at Johns Hopkins University just released a report by Lester M. Salamon titled, "Employment in America’s Charities: A Profile." The Center’s website also includes links to other great reports from their Nonprofit Employment Data Project.
2. The Center for Nonprofit Leadership at Arizona State University has a new Initial Self Assessment Tool for nonprofits which is part of their, "Principles of Effectiveness in Nonprofit Organizations program." The 10 core principles are focused on:
By heather on December 20, 2006 - 4:33pm
Wikipedia is doing a cool fundraising thing today. Today someone is matching all the donations that Wikipedia receives. So, on Wikipedia's home page they have a thermometer which shows the total donations they are receiving. The amount is increasing quickly! I can also click and see who has donated and how much. They call it "live" donations.
I realize most nonprofits don't have the amount of traffic to their website as Wikipedia does, however this is a great online fundraising example!
By heather on December 7, 2006 - 11:33am
In continuation to my earlier post about Fiscal Sponsorship, here is additional information that I learned recently.
Projects and Organizations looking for a fiscal sponsor:
1. The Foundation Center has a great fiscal sponsorship tutorial for anyone interested in learning more about fiscal sponsorship.
2. The Community Resource Center in Colorado also has a great step-by-step explanation about fiscal sponsorship and the difference between the term "fiscal agent" and "fiscal sponsor."
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