Challenge/Matching Gift Programs for Your Fund-Raising Campaigns

by Tony Poderis | Mar 5, 2007 | Campaign Planning, Funding Sources & Donors | 14 comments

Challenge Grants Can Multiply Your Success Challenge grants are indeed challenging to fulfill, and once secured, they are unusually rewarding opportunities for non-profit organizations to greatly energize and enhance their fund-raising campaigns. They can...

Corporate Matching of Employees’
Gifts to Your Organization

by Tony Poderis | Mar 5, 2007 | Funding Sources & Donors | 3 comments

A number of resources provide listings of companies having gift programs that match contributions made by their employees to non-profit organizations. According to the grantor’s guidelines, such matching funds could be general in nature for support of almost any...

In Search of the Elusive Major Giver

by Tony Poderis | May 28, 2003 | Campaign Planning, Capital Campaigns, Endowment Campaigns, Funding Sources & Donors, Trustees & Volunteers | 6 comments

What a Major Giver is How to find them What you need to have in place before conducting a Major Gifts Campaign Your organization needs money. Big money. The kind of money you can’t raise by going out and asking for donations of $10, $20, $100, or perhaps even...

The Fallacy of Financial Ratios: Why Outcome Evaluation Is the Better Gauge of Grant Worthiness

by Tony Poderis | Oct 4, 2002 | Funding Sources & Donors, Fundraising Policies & Practices | 1 comment

Talk of developing a system to evaluate the sustainability of non-profit organizations has been on the rise. Centered around measuring outcomes in terms of percentages or ratios, the goal of such a system appears to be twofold: To create a filter that will allow...

Your Organization’s Next Special Event:
“Fund-Raiser” Or “Friend-Raiser?”

by Tony Poderis | Nov 26, 2001 | Fund Raising Events, Funding Sources & Donors | 10 comments

Should a special event be focused on making friends for an organization or bringing in money? On the one hand, every organization needs friends to help promote its mission and to be there for future fund-raising needs. But on the other, there are bills to be paid...

Cultivate a “Grass-Roots” Fund-Raising
Campaign for Your Organization

by Tony Poderis | Mar 1, 2001 | Annual Campaigns, Funding Sources & Donors, Small Gifts Campaigns | 1 comment

Many non-profit organizations serve individuals who pay very little or who are unable to pay anything in the way of fees for the services they receive. They generally are in no position to give even the smallest donation to their organizations’ annual fund. In...