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Getting Creative With Fundraising Methods: Newly Released Podcast
Wondering how important it is to come up with a fundraiser for your group that’s new and different? Or how other groups have managed to come up with winning ideas? Check out the podcast “Bringing...
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Fundraising When the Economy Is Down: Newly Released Podcast
Fundraising is harder for every group out there, but small, mostly volunteer-led groups face particular challenges — and have come up with unique ways to overcome those challenges. Hear from parents,...
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So That’s How Walkathons Got Started!
A good portion of the population has never known a world without walkathons, and probably wouldn’t be able to imagine it. But I was surprised to learn that this now-ubiquitous type of nonprofit...
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Podcast Interview With Ilona Bray About The Volunteer’s Guide to Fundraising
Here’s podcast three of three, drawn from the recently published The Volunteer’s Guide to Fundraising. In the attached podcast, Author Ilona Bray reveals her own first (and misguided) experience with...
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The Positive Side of Re-Giving
Last year, donor Bill Knight paid $12,000 at a charity event for a guitar autographed by Gene Simmons of Kiss — and later donated it to another charity for auction. This year, he paid $20,000 for...
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Fundraising Kudos to Emeryville’s “Shortest Triathlon Ever”
Sometimes all it takes is a little twist on an old fundraising theme to capture people’s attention. With its “Shortest Triathlon Ever,” the Bay Area Orthopaedic Sports and Spine Foundation has done...
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Fundraising Events Bring in Fun-Lovers: But Donors?
The Guardian (U.K.) recently brought together a group of experts to give their top tips for holding a fundraising event, in “Best bits: making events-based fundraising work.” All of the advice is worth...
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Planning a Big Event? Train Your Volunteers Ahead of Time
“I have to go to a pre-event training? Just to volunteer? Really?” At least, that’s what I first said (under my breath) when asked to come to an evening training in order to participate in setup at the...
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Lost-and-Found Booth Crucial to Special Events!
Whether at a carnival, benefit concert, or other special event, participants will probably lose or forget things. Just ask me — I left my sweater behind at the “Free for All” series of concerts on the...
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Fundraising Kudos to: Strike Debt
Okay, let’s just all drop our collective jaws at the success of Strike Debt’s recent telethon, which raised money for a project it calls Rolling Jubilee. The group brought in a whopping $293,000 —...
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After the Event Is Over: Where’s the Follow-Through?
Do you know when the real work of a big event begins? Not the day of the gala, but afterwards. Nonprofit organizations often put much energy into an elegant gala, an annual dinner, a silent auction,...
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Happy National (Underfunded) Library Week!
From April 14 through 20, the U.S. is celebrating books and the role that libraries play in people’s lives. Libraries have become many communities’ go-to place to rent a movie, do homework, search for...
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It’s Actually Okay If Your Nonprofit Doesn’t Hold a Golf Fundraiser
To hear all the ads and emails, you’d think that any nonprofit that hasn’t started planning its spring golf tournament — right now, this instant — is putting a permanent divot into its fundraising...
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Wanna Hear Insults? Listen to What People Have to Say About Bad Event Emcees
The world used to be a lot more creative about issuing negative criticism. Shakespeare, for example, came up with lines like, “He is white-livered and red-faced” (Henry V) and “You are not worth...
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“There Was Nothing to Bid on at the Silent Auction!”
This is not what you want to hear someone say about your nonprofit’s silent auction. But it’s exactly what a friend of mine said recently, upon returning from a fundraising event. She didn’t literally...
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That Fingerpainting Wasn’t Worth a Penny Over $49,000!
From the tabloids to the blogosphere to MSN to NPR, there’s hardly a news source that doesn’t find this story irresistable. The elements alone are the stuff of sitcom, even before we get to the...
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Got Milestones to Celebrate?
The East Bay Children’s Book Project recently announced to its email followers that, “We are getting ready to celebrate an amazing milestone. We will give away our millionth book sometime this year.”...
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It’s PTA Collection Time as the School Year Begins!
Can you feel the excitement in the air? Kids are finding out who their teachers are, buying their back-to-school wardrobes, and signing up for activities. Parents, however, may be a little less...
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How to End a Nonprofit Event on Time (Donors Need to Get Home!)
There’s nothing like the good feeling at a party where no one wants to leave. At an ordinary party, however, the departure time is voluntary. At a nonprofit annual dinner or similar fundraising event,...
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Tips From an Experienced Charity Auctioneer
I recently spoke to someone who’s been volunteering at a nonprofit’s live auction for ten years — and in a major role, too. He’s the one who stands up in front of the room and solicit bids from the...
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