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Fundraising meetings can be productive, inspiring affairs or they can be colossal wastes of time. Anyone who has been to or even held any type of meeting knows that meetings can go either way. The goal is to make your next fundraising meeting as productive as possible. (More info about planning and taxes.)
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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 [...]

For obvious reasons, volunteers are essential to the success and profitability of any fundraising campaign. But finding willing and able volunteers can be a tricky thing; sure, every parent or member of your group should want to see your organization succeed and meet its fundraising goals, but people are busy and good volunteers are often [...]

In a perfect world, all benefactors of your fundraising campaign would step up every time to do their part in your fundraising campaign. But ours not being a perfect world, that’s probably not going to happen. To make the most of your fundraiser, it often pays to give your volunteers extra reasons to sign up [...]

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 [...]

It seems obvious why fundraising is important: to raise funds for needed items, services and programs. Yet, raising funds has so many other benefits besides the obvious.
Often, budgets get cut, or less than ideal family situations mean that children have to go without things or activities that their classmates receive, and later life opportunities [...]

Come join our NEW ‘Fundraising Ideas’ group on Idealist.org! The group enables you to freely share your fundraising ideas – what has worked and what hasn’t – and even find others in your area to collaborate with! You can start your own discussions, look for volunteers and more.
 

 
So what exactly is Idealist.org?
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Job descriptions for volunteers are recommended by many fundraising consultants and industry experts as an aid to volunteers, an organizational tool, and a preventative for volunteer burnout. Volunteer job descriptions let people know exactly what is required of them if they sign up for a specific fundraising job, so volunteers can plan accordingly and only [...]

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, [...]

Rewards programs and incentives are the most commonly used forms of fundraiser motivation – because they work! Take the time before your fundraiser kicks off to structure a great rewards program, and you’ll have volunteers clamoring to get in on the action!
What’s In It For Me?
It’s a refrain that’s repeated endlessly in marketing: answer [...]