Fundraising

Young Leaders of the Americas (YLAI) fellowship empowers entrepreneurs to strengthen their capacity to launch and advance their entrepreneurial ideas and effectively contribute to social and economic development in their communities. Through the YLAI Entrepreneurial Leadership Curriculum and individualized professional placements, YLAI Fellows have accelerated their commercial and social ventures’ success and developed specific action… [Read More]

2022-23 Rotary Peace Fellowship Program offers dedicated leaders with work experience in peace and development from around the world. This Fellowship covers tuition and living expenses, increases the capacity of existing leaders to prevent and resolve the conflict by offering academic training, field experience, and professional networking. Let’s look over in detail the program that… [Read More]

Today in the digital world, the website is one of the key tools for fundraising. All other digital tools like emailer, social media posts, etc. direct the donor to the website where the final step of ‘donating’ actually takes place; and in fundraising, this step is indeed the key. “Donate”/ “Donate Now” button on the… [Read More]

Sometimes when your fundraisers are interacting with a donor, they are often asked by the donor about the minimum amount, as they feel it’s a donation and any donation amount should be acceptable. For an organisation, it’s important to fix a minimum amount of donation (both for monthly and one-time) and accordingly work out details… [Read More]

Donor Management System (DMS) is not-for-profit’s customer relationship management (CRM) system and is a means to compile, organise, analyse and strategically implement communication strategy so as to maintain and grow the relationship with the donor. In other words, it’s a tool to maintain all the donor-related information so that the same could be used for… [Read More]

Yes the mission and aims and objectives of your NGO is why you want people to support you. However, for the purposes of fundraising from individuals, you may want to explain or interpret your mission, aims and objectives, so that ordinary people who live in your local community understand in simple terms what you are… [Read More]

Large charities and NGOs use specialist fundraising software to keep information on large numbers of individual donors. However, if you are a small or medium-size NGO with limited numbers of supporters and contacts, you can still manage these using basic Excel spreadsheets. In the UK, there is now a legal requirement to ask donors if… [Read More]