NEW ARTICLE (12/24/09): "Saying Your Thank Yous and Really Mean It"
How often and how do you thank your donors? One of the most important rules of fundraising is that one should be able to send out a thank you letter at least 72 hours upon receipt of the gift.
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UPDATE (12/07/09):
Meet and learn from fellow fundraisers. Attend "FriendSips: The 5th Fund Philippines Members' Networking Activity, December 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Bonnie's BBQ Grill, G/F, EDSA Central, Pavilion, Green Field District, Mandaluyong City. Registration is 150.00 for the food and venue. Contact Sherlo at 0922.880.4840 or email him at sherlo.reyes@fundphilippines.org.
Want to see a cool video for a non-profit organization done right? Check out
www.owenjonesandpartners.com and click on the "Owen Does What's Right" box. |
Fundraising Tip: Get your non-profit to appeal to a particular person (especially a friend) and who knows what they can do for you. Author, designer and Photographer Scott Kelby, is one such kind of person. He helped raise funds for The Springs of Hope Kenya orphanage by offering the chance to help on his popular blog,
Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider. Through his efforts of his readers, they were able to help build and fursnish the orphanage. He made the orpahanage a beneficiary of limited sales of his books, readers set up online stores where proceeds went to the orphanage and a whole lot of other stuff.
Click here to find out the result of his help and how you can learn form it.
I never thought that I would get touched by a stick figure animation, but this non-profit's video found on their website's home page does a great job! Kudos to their ad agency,
RP3, who arranged for the donation of animation, the original score, and final production work.
Click here for the video.
