These resources will help you save time, effort and money – as you raise funds for your nonprofit.  Our guidebooks provide “Step by Step” instructions on how to plan effective fundraising campaigns.  You’ll increase your group’s bottom line results with these proven methods and practical tools.

Raising Money by Mail

7 Essential Steps to Raising Money by Mail

A blueprint for executing a successful direct mail fundraising campaign. Includes sample fundraising letters and a “swipe file” of 321 choice phrases. With these tools you’ll create a compelling fundraising letter that gets results!

Silent Auctions

Silent Auctions: Complete Step by Step Guide & Toolkit

A practical manual that walks you step by step how to plan and execute a profitable silent auction.  Use the extensive list of suggested items and follow the advice on how to get the items donated to create a great auction line-up. Plus get a Toolkit with sample letters, bid sheets and other tools that will save you valuable time.

Charity Auctions

Secrets of the Charity Auction Experts

These seminars will make planning your auction easier and more profitable than ever!  Includes audio recordings, printed transcripts and a Quick Start Guide – “81 Tips to Make Your Auction Great.”

Casino Fundraiser

10 Secrets to Casino Fundraising Success

Welcome to Your Casino Fundraiser! Awaiting you is a world that is stylish and glamorous. It’s Vegas decked out to a black and white theme! As soon as you step out of your car, you feel like a VIP as you walk over the red carpet, and see the sparkling lights at the entrance. Your senses are indulged as you walk into the Vegas Casino Fundraiser, you feel the excited buzz at the room, the individual casino tables branded with the Organization’s logo, and all elements are strategically designed to inspire and engage. Here, you soak it all in as you are greeted with a virgin martini, playfully named after the organization, and here, you will mingle, buzz and try your luck at the casino tables: After all, having fun tonight is going to be for a great cause.

Golf Fundraiser

10 Secrets to Golf Tournament Fundraising

Golf fundraising contains many logistical challenges and can take much effort to plan. However, done right, golf tournament fundraisers can become a healthy stream of fundraising dollars and become the hottest tickets in town by incorporating raffles, sponsorships, cash bars, ticket sales, raffles and more – all under one friendly, competitive environment!

Dinner Fundraising

10 Secrets to Dinner Fundraising Success

Imagine .. amongst a ten piece band providing a cool jazz backdrop, you make your way to the elegantly appointed cocktail tables and chairs, which are draped in textured linens and adorned by simple yet beautiful centerpieces, each creatively nestling a logo of the organization. Depending on which cocktail table you decide to rest at, there are different picture frames that depict how your fundraising dollars will be put to good use in the organization’s programming. Wow! You learn that your money helps the Organization pay for a specific program you’ve been noticing in the community, how wonderful!

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    Your Silent Auction Guide & Toolkit is a very VALUABLE tool to have in everyone's fundraising toolbox. I just ordered last week and have already used it. It has helped me so much to prepare our group on our upcoming Dinner and Silent auction activity. Thank you for putting it together. Keep up the great work. - Sililo aka Kuka Sam


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