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Nonprofit Auction Item: A Vasectomy for You and Your Cat!?
The humble school bake sale is dead, according to NPR’s recent story, “Forget Bake Sales: Schools Turn to Luxe Auctions,” by Lauren Silverman. The story describes how (as every parent knows), trying to...
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Feeding Kids Sugar to Raise Money for Diabetes Research?
Yesterday was “Mug Root Beer Float” day at the Oakland A’s baseball game, at which families brought lots of kids to enjoy meeting celebrities, watching floats, and of course drinking root beer floats....
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Fundraising When the Economy Is Down: Newly Released Podcast
Fundraising is harder for every group out there, but small, mostly volunteer-led groups face particular challenges — and have come up with unique ways to overcome those challenges. Hear from parents,...
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Bay Area Fundraisers: Wanna See Free Theatre About Fundraising?
Spending a summer’s day in the park seeing the San Francisco Mime Troupe, picnicking, and seeing which old friends you run into: It’s a Bay Area tradition. No, the Mime Troupe is not silent, as in...
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Fundraising Partnerships With Local Real Estate Agents
Since I cover both fundraising and real estate matters at Nolo, I can’t help but notice how often the two intersect. This week, for example, my local neighborhood newspaper’s real estate section...
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Fundraising Kudos to: Rockridge DVD Project
These are tough times for libraries, businesses, and donors, but the Rockridge DVD Project has come up with some creative solutions that unite all three. The library was offered a chance to buy, at low...
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Fundraising Kudos to: Montclair Pet and Wildlife Fund
You know how I love fundraising that makes money by selling something that costs the nonprofit nothing, and the Montclair Veterinary Hospital’s Pet and Wildlife Fund’s “Pet Mayor Contest” is one of the...
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Corporate Giving Gets More Issue-Focused
Instead of spreading their gifts widely across multiple program areas, corporations are choosing one or two societal issues to focus on, according to a survey and 2011 “Giving in Numbers” report by the...
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Fundraising Kudos to: ARC’s “Dark Shadows” Collaboration
As someone who faints dead away if anyone bearing a needle removes even a drop of my blood, I bow in awe of the heroes and heroines who — willingly! — donate their blood. But I also had to laugh when...
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Why Your Nonprofit’s Next Fundraising Auction Should Set Earnings Records
Corporate giving is up, according to the 2012 Giving in Numbers report from the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. It’s up across the board, to the tune of 42% or $4.48 billion between 2007...
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“There Was Nothing to Bid on at the Silent Auction!”
This is not what you want to hear someone say about your nonprofit’s silent auction. But it’s exactly what a friend of mine said recently, upon returning from a fundraising event. She didn’t literally...
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That Fingerpainting Wasn’t Worth a Penny Over $49,000!
From the tabloids to the blogosphere to MSN to NPR, there’s hardly a news source that doesn’t find this story irresistable. The elements alone are the stuff of sitcom, even before we get to the...
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