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The Fundraiser’s Playbook



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Getting Started

  • How do I use the Fundraiser's Playbook to raise more money?
  • What's 'Almsgiving' all about?
  • Why are you raising money?
  • Types of Fundraising
  • Fundraising Questionnaire - Parish
  • Parish Types
  • Fundraising questionnaire - ministry
  • What are some different kinds of ministries?

Key Concepts

  • Is my fundraising cost-effective?
  • How can I find new donors?
  • How do I ask donors to give again?
  • Why am I losing donors?
  • How do I inspire donors to keep giving?
  • How do I separate my donors into meaningful segments?
  • How do I encourage donors who have stopped giving to give again?

Fundraising Tools

  • How do I create an annual fundraising plan?
  • How do I write a program budget that donors can understand?
  • How do I create a donor database?
  • What is a fundraising case statement?

Annual Fund Drive

  • What is an annual fund drive and how do I plan one?
  • How can volunteers help with my annual fund drive?
  • What is the United Way Campaign model?

Annual Stewardship Campaign

  • What is an annual stewardship campaign?
  • What is stewardship?
  • Is stewardship the same thing as fundraising?

Board Fundraising

  • Should a board of directors do fundraising?

Capital Campaigns

  • How do I run a capital campaign?

Charitable Enterprises

  • What are Charitable Enterprises?
  • How do I run a silent auction?
  • How do I set up a "clothes closet" ministry?
  • How do I run a raffle?
  • What is a rummage sale? And how do I run one?

Corporate Giving

  • How can I raise money from corporations?
  • How do I get corporate sponsorships?
  • What are gifts "in kind"?
  • What is cause marketing?
  • What is an employee giving campaign?
  • How can matching gifts boost employee giving?

Direct Mail

  • How do I raise money with direct mail?
  • How can I start a Direct Mail Program?
  • How do I get new direct mail donors?
  • How do I raise money with direct mail cultivation?
  • How do I deal with fundraising writer's block?
  • What is a test mailing?
  • How should I use thank you notes in my direct mail Fundraising?
  • How can my newsletters raise more money?

Email Fundraising

  • How do I raise money with email?
  • How can I find new donors using email?
  • How can I use email to ask donors to give again?

Event Fundraising

  • How do I run a successful event fundraiser?
  • How do I organize a golf tournament?
  • How do I throw a successful gala dinner?

Food Drives

  • How do I run a food drive?
  • How do I set up a food drive competition?
  • How can I use grocery bags for a food drive?
  • What fun food drive themes work?

Grantwriting

  • How do I write grants?
  • What do I need to know to start writing grants?
  • How do I write a grant budget narrative?
  • How do I manage my grant deadines? Build a grant calendar!
  • What on earth is a logic model?
  • How do I write a donation request to a business?
  • How can I find new grant opportunities?
  • How do I get grantors to give again?

Major Gifts

  • What is major gift fundraising?
  • How do I ask for major gifts?
  • How do I find new major gift donors?
  • What is prospect research?
  • How can "Moves Management" help me bring in major gifts?
  • Can volunteers help me get big gifts?
  • How can a small dinner party bring in big gifts?
  • How do I build a major gifts program from scratch?

Ministry Models

  • What is a multi-church cooperative ministry?
  • How do I start a church food pantry?

Offertory

  • What is an offertory collection?
  • What is the Tithe and why is it important?
  • How will online giving increase our offertory?
  • How do I get new offertory donors?
  • How do I increase offertory giving?

Online Giving

  • How can I raise money online?
  • How will crowdfunding help me raise money?
  • Should my website have a donate button?
  • How can I encourage monthly giving?
  • Should I use text-to-give for fundraising?
  • How do website pop-ups raise money?
  • How do I get new donors online?
  • How do I convince online donors to give again (and again)?

Personal Ministry Fundraising

  • How do I raise money for my personal ministry?
  • How can I raise money for mission trips?

Phone Calls

  • How can I raise money over the phone?
  • How do I run a Thank-a-Thon?
  • What is a call flow diagram?

Planned Giving

  • What is planned giving?
  • Should I start an endowment?
  • What is a bequest?
  • Why are life estate gifts great for planned giving?
  • What is a legacy society and how does it help with planned giving?
  • What is a charitable gift annuity?

Team Fundraising

  • What is team fundraising?

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    Nathan Krupa started raising money professionally for Golden Harvest Food Bank in 2011. When he discovered that fundraising can make wonderful things happen, his profession became his passion and the Almoner was born. His first book on raising money in the Church, Letters from the Almoner, is now available on Amazon.

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