This skills building program for people of color led nonprofits focuses upon donor development within a multicultural learning setting. Offered by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT), the academy includes dynamic training, one on one coaching and peer learning so that executive directors, development staff and board members can create [...]
3.2 Build Your Toolkit for Civic Engagement
Read the feature article from the March-April 2012 issue of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal: Starting a 501(c)(4)? Learn fundraising lessons from three longtime 501(c)(4) organizations on how to find new donors, how to ask members to donate, as well as how to integrate fundraising strategies and messaging with political education.
2.23 Complicated In-Kind Donations
Dear Kim: I have a board member who has offered to let the person who sells the most tickets to our upcoming event use her beach house for the weekend.  She doesn’t rent her house normally, so she wants to know how she can value this gift so that we can write her a receipt [...]
March 6th: You’ve Got the Gift, Now What?
Practical Ideas for Donor Cultivation. A GIFT webinar featuring Stan Yogi. Donors are not ATMs. They’re people who believe in your organization’s work and want to know how you’re achieving the vision for change that they share with you. As with any relationship, your organization’s relationships with donors should be multidimensional and grounded in open, [...]
2.21 The Why of Grassroots Fundraising
Dear Kim: My nonprofit has recently decided to follow your advice and build a base of individual donors. Â (We have lost most of our foundation funding and see this as our only choice.) Â We are very small, with only two staff and five board members and so we want to attract a small number of [...]
