Fundraising Ideas

What is a cookie dough fundraiser?
The basic concept is the same as all order taker fundraisers. You equip your sellers with a brochure, an order form, and a basic sales script.
Your group does catalog sales of a three-pound tub of cookie dough. Average retail price is $10 per three-pound tub.  The dough comes in a [...]

How to use donor recognition in a capital campaign - Church fundraising capital campaigns using donor recognition are easy to conduct. In this type of capital campaign, a nonprofit group seeks a pledge of a certain contribution amount and in return, offers to provide a specific type of recognition.
Donations of a certain amount are rewarded [...]

I don’t want this article to sound like a Dennis Miller rant, but we really need to focus some of our fundraising energieson doing the right thing.
What exactly is “doing the right thing” anyway?
Think about it.
When you conduct a fundraiser, you are sending a message to your volunteers and your supporters. That message contains a [...]

Candle fundraisers are your basic order taker fundraiser. You need to do more than just show pictures of candles. Showing fragrant samples will dramatically boost your candle fundraiser’s results.
The basic concept is the same as all order taker fundraisers. You equip your sellers with a brochure, an order form, and a basic sales script.
The brochure [...]