Funding
Financial Focus: You Told Us
Blue Avocado readers share thoughts on how the current political landscape will affect your organization’s funding.
Is Your Nonprofit Ready for a Capital Project?
Is your nonprofit considering raising funds and investing in building or renovating a piece of property? Save time, money, and headaches.
Everything We’ve Been Taught About Major Gifts is Wrong
Different nonprofits have different trajectories that result in different assets at a given stage of development.
Why Don’t Foundations Build Capacity in Fundraising?
Why do so few grantmakers invest in building the capacity for nonprofits to raise independent money?
Surprise! Most Legacy Gifts DON’T Come from Major Donors
Planned giving professional Greg Lassonde gives us step-by-step instructions for soliciting bequests and planned gifts.
First Person Nonprofit: A Day in the Life of a Major Gifts Officer
Major gifts aren’t the right strategy for every organization, but we can still appreciate how this fundraiser talks about her job.
Getting to 100% Board Giving
Having 100% of board members make personal donations is a cliché. But, if you have this requirement, make it as easy as possible.
The Founding Fathers Write a Grant Proposal
The challenges of writing a grant proposal and getting funded evidently go back to colonial times.
Deconstructing Nonprofit Sustainability
Maybe in some mythic past it was possible to think first about strategic impact goals, and then about how to raise the money. But today we know better: you can’t talk about what you’re going to do without talking about how to get the money.
Take A Fresh Look at Scrip Fundraising
Increasingly, nonprofits are finding scrip to be a comparatively easy way to raise funds. How does scrip fundraising work, anyway?