Free Fundraising Tools
Here’s a resource of tools and links to help you fire up your fundraising and your board.
Webinar – “Asking for Major Gifts: How to Never, Ever Get Turned Down”
Reports
- How Giving Is Changing in the Recession
- The Seven New Rules of Fundraising In Changing Times: What’s Working NOW
Charts and Graphs from “Fired Up Fundraising”
- Powerpoint: How Board Members can Help Your Organization Survive the Recession
- The Fundraising Cycle
- The Fundraising Cycle: Time and Energy Involved
- The Fundraising Cycle: A Role for Every Board Member
Published Articles
Gail publishes regularly in national magazines and on-line newsletters. She writes a regular bi-monthly column for Guidestar’s monthly newsletter, and occasionally publishes for Advancing Philanthropy, the monthly magazine for AFP International, Fundraising Success Magazine and BoardSource.
Gail’s Guidestar Articles:
How to Increase Donations by 39%
July 2010
10 Tips for Keeping Your Board Fired Up and in Action for the Cause
May 2010
How I Broke Through My #1 Problem with My Board
March 2010
New Year’s Resolutions for Board Members
January 2010
Top 10 Year-end Fundraising Strategies to Put You Over Goal on December 31
November 2009
No-Ask Fundraising: Six High-Impact Jobs for Board Members
How do we harness our board members’ passion for the cause and channel it into productive fundraising activities? Here are practical, easy ways your board members can open the door, connect their friends to your organization, expand your organization’s social networks, and help you find new friends and donors—without having to solicit.
July 2008
Four Steps to Take Board Members from Fear of Fundraising to Enthusiasm
If you want to get your board members fully active in fundraising, you need to approach them from a new perspective. You have to change their mind-set about fundraising and redefine it from an entirely new point of view. Board members don’t understand how powerful the act of raising money can be—it’s an effort to make the world a better place.
June 2008
The Fired-Up Board: Preparing Your Board Members for Fundraising
Just think, how much could your organization raise if you had all your board members engaged in fundraising?
May 2008
The Myths and Realities of Board Members and Fundraising
Despite what you may have heard, most board members are trained to greatness, not born to it.
April 2008
Five Fundraising Mistakes We Make With Our Board
Having trouble getting your board members to pitch in with fundraising? See if you’re committing one or more of these errors.
March 2008
Other Articles and Handouts
- Successful Fundraising in Tough Times – What smart fundraisers need to be doing now!
- 20 EASY Ways Board Members Can Cultivate Donors – A list of 20 easy ways to enlist new donors.
- 10 Easy Ways Board Members Can Raise Money
- 12 Ways to Liven Up Your Board Meetings —and Your Board
- Advice Visits: Searching for Hidden Gold
- Gail Perry’s Golden Rules of Fundraising
- How a Feasibility Campaign Planning Study can Catapult Your Campaign Forward
- Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards
- The Board’s Resource Development Committee Job Description
