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How to Secure Sponsorships for Your School Fundraisers

Big Fundraising Ideas

Whether you aim to purchase new sports equipment, fund a class trip, or renovate the library, your fundraising efforts can gain a major boost through sponsorships. It is easy for a message to slip through the cracks. Lasting relationships are formed through regular communication, recognition, and follow-up.

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Taking the Fear out of Grant Management: Conflict of Interest By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

Assel Grant Services

However, many state and local government grants are pass-through funding from federal agencies and held to the same rules and regulations. Foundation and corporate grants may not be as stringent as federal or pass-through funding, but the principles of grant management still apply. Subscribe to our blog to follow along!

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CFRE Certification for Your Fundraising Career

Greater Giving

Having a CFRE certification shows you have proficiency in nonprofit fundraising at the highest possible level, and understand ethical best practices in the industry. Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work.

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Benefit Corporations: Back to Purpose

Tech Soup

They want to ensure that the mission of their company stays intact over time and factors like environmental stewardship, community involvement, and employee well-being are legally recognized in the DNA of their founding documents. A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation.

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NEW THINKING: Neither amateur nor professional but something in between – the ‘Corinthian’ nature of fundraising and the problems that causes

Critical Fundraising

As documented by Beth Breeze in her book The New Fundraisers , fundraisers who see fundraising as an ‘art’ often decry the professional marketing techniques (read: proven to be effective and efficient) advocated by those who see fundraising as ‘science’. And no-one gets to circumvent it because they can afford to ‘buy’ their way in.

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What are your nonprofit’s priorities and goals for 2025?

Blue Avocado

We will be able to point out and document what we have done and ask for increased funding to do more, such as work on some public arts projects. We will empower our supporters to be champions of our cause through engagement and through our volunteer opportunities. Or change it with donor approval?

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Transparency Is The Bedrock Of Ethics In Grants Administration

Grant Professionals Association

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary the term “Transparency” means : “T he quality of allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.” Transparency is the bedrock of ethics. It additionally supports oversight of the expenditure of public money through grants. Merriam-Webster.

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