You may follow people, companies, organizations, famous people, products, etc. The idea is this will raise how many people know about the 'winning' nonprofit (people can then choose to follow that nonprofit on Twitter) and hopefully help them to raise more. Tags: how to Twitter new fundraising method on Twitter.

We will use the results to retool how we work with organizations and also publish a white paper with the results. Since the economic downturn, I've posted general fundraising advice, in Seeking Grant Money Today , besides this blog's main topic du jour; grant writing advice, information, and tips. We are grateful for your time.

An excerpt from an off-the-top-of-my-head note I sent last week to a friend inquiring about getting fundraising help for her friend's start-up organization, which has so far been funded by that friend, the founder. think hers are absolutely the best fundraising books. Tags: start-up fundraising

I've just re-read Joan Flanagan's classic The Grassroots Fundraising Book, and she describes it better than anyone. And then she gives clear, complete directions for how to do grassroots fundraising in different ways. If you're a community-based organization, and you don't have this book, get it. Anyway. She encourages.

The post describes how a marketing agency guy stood in line to be the first to buy the new iphone at the Soho Apple store, generated huge publicity (albeit mostly on blogs and print technology reporting) and how that buying an iphone led to raising $100,000 at online auction for a charitable organization. It’s a lot of money.

An article in the New York times the other day looked at "something called 'face-to-face' or 'street fundraising,' trolling city streets and taking credit card information from donors on the spot." They call this one-on-one, in-person fundraising a return to raising money "the old-fashioned way."

Compassionate Care ALS (CCALS) www.ccals.org , a small but strikingly effective organization isn't afraid to run with the big boys. Once again, CCALS is at or near the top of the list of organizations that raised money in the 2009

Here are my favorite quotes: “[While most fundraising is still offline…] Emerging technologies create great opportunities to engage donors, which can result in deeper commitment, a new pool of volunteers, greater board involvement, and more generous offline giving. They are for relationship-building, not dollars.

Any person or organization can participate. money raised. It's a great way for you to dip your toe into social networking and peer-to-peer fundraising to see if it works for you. Learn more here and then go forth and fundraise! Tags: America's Giving Challenge Causes online fundraising contests and awards

When I was Director of Development for a nonprofit, I tried to convey to my teammates that everyone in the organization is a fundraiser. This can be as simple as passing on news about grant opportunities to being able to speak concisely and compellingly about the organization’s fundraising goals. How did they do it?