What is just one penny? Most of us don’t think it is all that much. We may even groan a little when we get pennies in our change. But many fund-raising organizations are turning those little copper coins into a terrific fund-raising project. The Top Benefit of a Penny Drive: Everyone Has Pennies One of […]

After months of research plans for our latest ebook guides are finalized. This fall we will be releasing a new eBook: Step by Step Fundraising Guide to Silent Auctions This ebook will be available beginning November 2, 2007. More details will follow soon!

The Canary Foundation has held a popular event during the San José Grand Prix for the past three years. The CXO and Celebrity Go-Kart Challenge event features celebrities and CEOs racing against each other in go-karts. Only CEOs and top level executives are invited to participate in this special event. It is quite popular and […]

When working on any volunteer project, you certainly couldn’t do it without the dedicated help from your team of volunteers. Whether it is a school, church or organization project, your volunteers are critical to the project’s success. Volunteers handle every aspect of a project or an event. Volunteers have many different skills and talents to […]

Many of the questions that were submitted to the fundraising survey that we recently conducted had to do with volunteers. Getting, keeping, inspiring, organizing and other help with volunteers for your group — were all mentioned quite a few times. Some of the specific questions I’ll plan on answering either individually or with articles in […]

Thanks to everyone who entrered this contest by answering the fundraising interest questions. There were many great responses… I think I’m going to be busy for quite some time answering them! Today the random drawing was done for the 10 winners… if you’d like to find out who won and watch the drawing as it […]

Here’s a “thank you” going out to those who completed the fundraising interest survey. I’ve just started going through the results and so far have been very interested to hear some of the responses. You’ve posed a lot of great questions! Here is one chart that shows which fundraisers respondants were most interested in learning […]