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Fundraising consultants are hired by large and small organizations to help with their campaigns. If you think your organization may benefit from working with a fundraising consultant, there are several things to consider:
What Is A Fundraising Consultant?
A fundraising consultant is an individual (or company) whom your organization can contract with to run the fundraising campaign [...]

It’s a good idea to tweak and improve, or set up your fundraising website now, before the major fundraising activities start in the Fall. We have several articles on raising funds online on this topic, but would like to also point out the results of the donorCentrics™ Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis.
According to this analysis online [...]

If your charitable organization is like many, contributions are lagging during this tough economic period. During times like these, it’s important to find ways to cut costs so that your organization can continue to provide its basic services on a smaller budget. Following are some ideas to help you save money.
Trim budgets
Take a look at [...]

Unfortunately, problems among fundraising volunteers are common and can really dampen the spirits of everyone involved. Maybe you’ve seen it happen before: your group has started a new fundraising campaign and everyone is excited. Everything is going well, until, seemingly out of nowhere, volunteers start to argue, or even quit.
What happened? More often [...]

A group’s best efforts can end in failure for some very common and predictable reasons. Some of the most common mistakes in fundraising campaigns include:
Insufficient planning:
- Be sure to thoroughly identify and then delegate every single task. Everyone should know exactly what they’re expected to do. Set realistic goals and deadlines and put it all [...]

Ask 20 people for an idea on a fundraiser and guess what you are going to get?  Probably 20 different ideas!  That can make it tough to reach a starting point for your fundraiser.
Even if you are the leader of a fundraising project, you have to defer to the opinions of others.  In many cases, [...]

It is extremely unlikely that you will ever hear a person complain that they don’t have enough stress in their life. Everyone has stress and too much of it! So who needs to volunteer for a fundraising project that piles on more stress?
No one does. Unfortunately, some small amount of stress may [...]

Giving of your time as a fundraising volunteer is effort enough without having to participate in a stale, no fun, dead-end fundraiser. Fortunately, fixing a fundraiser like that is one of the easiest fundraising problems to solve. You just have to find out what motivates your group to get them behind your fundraising project 100%.
Consider [...]