Red Hot Fundraising Ideas

21. Tips on Keeping Your Fundraising Letters Fresh and Creative
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

...  Another useful source when it comes to creative ideas that are to be used in a direct mail campaign is your own front line staff. For instance, the members of your organization who carry out an important ...

22. Beginner's Guide: Tips on Creating a Fundraising Plan
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Determination and dedication are key elements when it comes to organizing any fundraising event. Fundraising can be fun, rewarding and difficult at the same time and the involvement of your whole organization ...

23. Tips on Generating Top Overlines for Fundraising Letters
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

... as sales letters once they come with great sales pitch, a pitch that can hook the readers and make them more willing to open their wallets and provide money to your fundraising organization. Keep in mind ...

24. Creating Appealing Envelopes for Your Fundraising Letters
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

... it and read the whole package. Also, you should remember that your fundraising organization faces real competition from other organizations and your envelopes are likely to be ones of the many that are ...

25. Research - The Key Element in Writing Effective Fundraising Letters
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

... volunteers to collect and save this precious piece of information for your fundraising organization. Focusing your efforts on smaller companies is also a wise way to do your research before starting a ...

26. 3 Mistakes to Be Avoided in Direct Mail Fundraising Letters
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

... Here are the main mistakes you must avoid when writing letters that are going to be sent via direct mail. First, if you fail to ask for the gifts or money you need for your organization, your fundraising ...

27. The Right Length of a Fundraising Letter
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

Fundraising letters incorporate contents that are truly necessary for any appeal to donate money or other items to a particular organization. Fundraising letters help by describing the exact requirements ...

28. 3 Top Tips on Writing Effective Fundraising Letters
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... days of the initial mailing. Such a campaign will help you build the necessary base of support for your fundraising organization that will guarantee the long-term survival of your fundraising efforts. ...

29. Tips on Fundraising during Recession Times
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... for them to donate funds to your organization as soon as they are ready to do this. For instance, you should build an e-mail list in order to start a newsletter series that will keep your donors “updated”.  ...

30. Fundraising During a Recession Time
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         A common mistake among fundraising organizations is to scale back all their fundraising efforts mainly due to the current severe economic downturn. Instead of doing this, fundraising organizations ...

31. Fundraising With A Small Group
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... fundraising organization. Keep in mind that the best method to carry out each of your fundraisers with your small group is to mix publicity, participation and following-planning. Also, you will have to ...

32. Managing a Larger Fundraising Team
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... group stands for more connections and contacts to be utilized. For instance, you may have your planning team get in tough with another fundraising organization that may be willing to support your fundraising ...

33. Fundraising With Tight or No Budget
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... fundraising is all about resourcefulness and a very good organization and these things are likely to come for free. For instance, if you plan to hold a fundraiser without using any budget, you will have ...

34. Planning a Fundraising Campaign? Not Without Your Volunteers
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... to work as volunteers for your fundraising organization. You need to convince these potential volunteers that they should get involved with your fundraising efforts and selflessly provide you with their ...

35. Cancer Fundraisers
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... fund raising is all about plenty of challenges and rewards mainly beacuse you will have to accept all the organizational and practical aspect of cancer fundraisers. Physiological and emotional issues are ...

36. Tips on Organizing Online Fundraisers
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Online fund raising is among the most lucrative methods when it comes to raising funds for an organization but it may come with its unique challenges once you don’t plan everything in the right way.  Social ...

37. Blog-A-Thons
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... but you will hold it on the Internet. All the participants will write various blog posts – they will do this during a particular set time frame in order to raise awareness for your organization and money. ...

38. Tips on Writing an Effective Fundraising Letter
(Sample Fundraising Letters/Sample Fundraising Letters)

Motivating strangers to donate money to your fundraising organization can become a really daunting task unless you learn how to come up with efficient fundraising letters. In order to have such efficient ...

39. Recycling Fundraisers
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If you are planning to hold a green fundraiser for your organization, you should try and go for a recycling event. A recycling fundraiser is most likely to have no up front costs besides the ones involved ...

40. Fair Trade Fundraising
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... in a fair way and are able to keep their business going. Once you decide to hold such a fundraiser, you should go online and start looking for all the available ethical and fair trade organizations and ...