Resource Development Resources

Fundraising is a dynamic component to keeping nonprofit organizations healthy and thriving. There are a great many strategies from event planning to online giving to endowment planning that can be implemented to make your organization function at its best.

The backbone of fundraising is the resource development plan. This plan can help identify previous trends and future strategies that will strengthen your income. EDA Consulting will help you to develop a plan that identifies tools to help you and members of your organization implement that plan. Included in the resource development plan are leadership evaluation and strategies, SWOT analysis, case statement, summary page, and sample letter of introduction. In addition, EDA Consulting provides training on asking for gifts and planning campaigns.

For samples, please contact EDA Consulting.  For more information on fundraising, visit the EDA Consulting Cafe, join EDA Consulting's e-newsletter, list serv and Facebook group.

News, Articles, & Readings

Fundraising General

• How to Rise Fundraising Materials, by Tom Ahern
  
• Engaging Tomorrow's Donors Today
  
• How to plan your fundraising strategy
• Creating a budget for fundraising
• New Giving Trends
• Giving Circles
• Easing Fundraising Ideas: Yes, They Really Exist!
• Ten Tips for Funding Technology
• Eight Things to Ask For (Other than Cash)
• Save Time. Save Money. Save Face. The importance of data integrity.

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Individual Donors & Major Gifts

• Evaluating your individual donor program
• Learning From and Building On Objections
  
• The Sustainers. Getting Donors to Give
• Protecting a Donor's Wishes
• Charities Begin at Home, Real Estate Gifts on the Rise
• Chase the Relationship, Not the Money
• Every Donor Can Make the Ultimate Gift
• Asking for the Money: If You Don't Ask You Don't Get
• Can You Take No for an Answer?
• Charity Seeks Out Women as Potential Donors

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E-Philanthropy

• Back to Basics: Fundraising Online or Offline
• Online Giving Continues to Rise, Study Finds

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Corporate Donors

• A new era for business
• Fundraising From Corporations
• Businesses Seek New Ways to Promote Social Goals

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Websites

• Chronicle of Philanthropy
• Grassroots Fundraising Journal
• Guidestar
  
• Management Help
• Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)
• Foundation Center
• GoodSearch and GoodShop
• Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers (RAG)
• Grant Station
• The Nonprofit Times
• Charity Channel: Major Gifts and Planned Giving
• Charity Channel: Grants and Foundations
  

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Technology

• eTapestry
  
• Convio
• Blackbaud
• Sage Software
• Compass Technology
• Razors Edge
• TechSoup
• Network for Good
• Just Give
• Google for Nonprofits
  

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