Nonprofit Fundraising
Resources that can help you find funding, including grants and other fundraising methods, for your nonprofit organization or project.
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Introduction to Fundraising Planning - Candid Learning
"Does your organization need help directing its fundraising efforts? Planning focuses your organization by setting fundraising priorities and helps give staff and board members a roadmap to success. This introductory class will provide you the basic steps for developing a fundraising plan."
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Introduction to Fundraising - Philanthropy University
"Generate resources for your nonprofit with our free fundraising course online with certificate. Learn what donors look for when deciding to fund."
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Nonprofit Fundraising Webinars - Fundraising Academy
"Fundraising Academy Cause Selling Education webinars feature engaging speakers and unique insights into an array of subject matters focused on enhancing the knowledge of emerging fundraising leaders. These webinars will provide actionable tools to enhance your relationship-driven fundraising skills. We offer these webinars on a monthly basis, free of charge, to all registrants."
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Fundraising - Candid eBook Collection
Browse, borrow, and enjoy titles from the Candid digital collection. Get a free Candid library card by clicking on "Sign in" then "User ID help." Candid's collection includes books about nonprofits, philanthropy, social justice, and more. This link will take you straight to the collection of eBooks about nonprofit fundraising.
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Fundraising for Social Change
"This will be the 8th edition of one of the bestselling books on effective, mission-driven fundraising that is widely used in the field by nonprofit organizations across the country. It has often been called "the Bible of grassroots fundraising" and is a soup to nuts description of how to build, maintain and expand an individual donor program."
Format: eBook
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Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits
"The success or failure of a nonprofit depends on its ability to solicit donations from individuals, companies, and institutions. This book offers advice and stories from over 50 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists, and more. It explains how to make a fundraising plan, work with individual donors, solicit grants from foundations and corporations, and much more. This book also provides creative grassroots strategies and dozens of real-life success stories and cuts out the jargon and "consultant speak" that's so common in books about fundraising for nonprofits."
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Effective Fundraising
"Development is the lifeblood of most social enterprises, be they large or small. It is the unique and special responsibility of its trustees and supporters to help secure resources for the organization."
Format: eBook
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Boards on Fire!
"This short manual identifies the obstacles that keep leaders from fulfilling their responsibilities and offers simple steps for overcoming each barrier. whether you work as staff or serve on the board, you'll find practical solutions to this perennial problem within these pages."
Format: Book
Availability: Available
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Nonprofit Fundraising 101
"Nonprofit Fundraising 101 is a practical guide for nonprofit professionals and decision makers that helps them take their cause mobile."
Format: Book
Availability: All copies in use
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