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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 [...]

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: [...]

From the outside, fundraisers seem fairly simple and straightforward; but there is an awful lot of work involved in running even the simplest fundraisers. No doubt your child’s fundraiser could use the sorts of skills you practice in your work as a work at home parent everyday. How Can You Help Your Child’s Fundraiser? There’s [...]

Working as a fundraising volunteer can be professionally beneficial in many ways to work at home parents. By offering your services you can gain confidence and visibility, drawing attention to your services and skills. But you can also benefit personally in a number of ways by being a fundraising volunteer. Serving as a fundraising volunteer [...]

The key to successful fundraisers is obvious—get your volunteers to sell more, and get donors to spend more. Obvious, sure, but easier said than done. So what can your group do to make the most of your fundraising efforts and increase fundraiser profits? Get The Word Out Many excellent fundraisers fail for one simple reason—nobody [...]

General fundraising information like brochures and order-takers tell volunteers that there is a fundraiser ongoing, and shows donors what they can buy or give. But order takers and product catalogs do little to motivate volunteers to participate and sell or donors to buy. Sometimes, volunteers and donors need you to take it a step further [...]

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 be part [...]

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%. [...]

Fundraising companies have gotten very good at combining consumer need with profitability. They understand that sales of unwanted or unneeded products will only get them and their patrons (fundraising organizations) so far. To build lasting sales and demand, fundraisers must find a way to reach out and supply consumers with items and products they want [...]