I sent out a special email on Monday to those who are signed up for the Step by Step Fundraising newsletter.  It included some of the tips that I also posted here:  Annual Fund Drive, End-of-year Fundraising Success Strategies.
I got an email back from Tony with some great comments that maybe you can relate to.

Hi [...]

Have you ever thought about a live auction as being like a circus?  It’s true!  During the auction all eyes are focused on the stage to your ringmaster, the auctioneer.  Any great circus has many other performers to make the event a success.  Your auction also needs “ring people” to help the person on stage [...]

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is hosting two online chat events this week.  You can submit questions ahead of time, whether you can attend the chat live or not.  Grant writing and international philanthropy will be discussed:
The first is a live discussion this Tuesday, April 14, at noon Eastern time about grant writing strategies. We’ve [...]

Last week I was excited to attend the national Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) conference.  There were a lot of great seminars. What I really enjoy most about going to conferences though is meeting others who work in the nonprofit world.
At the first morning opening session I struck up a conversation with someone who does [...]

There are many fundraising events where business and/or individual sponsors play an important role.  Here is a great question that we recently received on this topic:
What is the role of sponsors? Is the money raised through sponsors only used to help reach the goal or can some funds be used to help with running the [...]

There are so many aspects to planning a fundraising event. Determining the ticket price and what portion of the ticket is tax deductible for attendees is one of those many details.
Your article about determining the tax deductible portion of fundraising event tickets was very helpful. However, I’m wondering if any of the information you [...]

Recently The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) released additional guidelines regarding how charitable organizations report expenses related to fundraising efforts. These new guidelines cover three specific situations:

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) reporting no fundraising expenses.
Should an NPO report amounts charged to the NPO by a professional fundraiser gross (as fundraising expenses) or net (as [...]