Fundraising

Plan Development

Fundraising plans are ‘roadmaps’ that help you set funding priorities and goals, limit crisis fund raising, increase board involvement, diversify and fully engage your funding base, and help you take advantage of more opportunities. Learn to unobtrusively integrate fund development with other program activities, add emotional ‘punch’ to your fundraising tools, and make the most productive use of your team’s time. The results are guaranteed to be amazing!

Individual Donations

Donations from people are the lifeblood of any organization. In 2003, nearly $200 billion was donated by individuals to charities. By comparison, foundations and corporations combined gave only $40 billion. If you are not raising 85% of your funds from individuals, you are missing a massive opportunity. With do good, learn to identify new donors, increase the level of support from current donors, transform small donors into major donors, and excite your staff and board while doing so. Move past quick funding fixes and on to long-term sustainable fundraising.

Matching Challenges

When is $1 not $1? Matching challenges are powerful ways for your donors to leverage their philanthropic impact. Work with do good to find ways to use matching challenges to bring new money into your organization faster than you've ever known. Matching gifts breath new life into your fundraising efforts, challenge your organization to grow its capacity, earn the respect of foundations, inspire your staff, engage your donors, and get the attention of the media.

Grantwriting

If you feel swamped with work already, but your boss and board are leaning on you to do more by way of grantwriting, do good can help. In addition to assisting you with grant research and writing, learn to use your limited time to find your best-matched foundations and write solid, concise proposals that will grab funders' attention.

Corporate Giving

Think businesses in your community should be more engaged in your programs? Corporate giving accounts for nearly 10% of charitable donations nationwide, and experts feel corporate giving is on the rise. If you feel intimidated by tapping this goldmine because you don't know how to "play the system" or feel business-savvy, let do good show you how to engage them through a multi-faceted corporate giving approach that will get businesses bragging about their work with you.

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“We would like corporate donors, but don't know how to get started.”

“I don't have the time to write grants and don't know where to look!”

“My board doesn't feel that they need to help with fundraising.”

“We would like to create a diverse fundraising plan to help us better plan for our organization's future.”