Funding a Volunteer Program

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Look! Up in the Sky!

Submitted by Tristan Dahn
on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 00:00

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!  No, it’s Carol Weisman’s fantastic new book, Fundraising Superheroes!

Aimed at short-on-time board members, Carol offers hundreds of tips on how to more effectively raise funds for your organization.  These ideas are presented in short, digestible, one page articles  accompanied by colorful and humorous illustrations.

Best of all, many of her pointers are immediately actionable.  You can open up to almost any page and, by the end of the day, have added some new piece to your fundraising puzzle.  Others, such as an event which needs to be planned or the setting up of a system to track donor’s gifts, may take slightly longer, but are presented in a simple way and “can-do” attitude, which might be exactly what you need to push you into action.

The superhero theme, humorous writing style, and colorful illustrations make the reading fun.  You may just find yourself turning off the television to read about organizational fundraising!  Gasp!

Volunteers as Donors (plus Peek at New “From the Top Down”)

Submitted by Lindsay Liprando
on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 00:00

“Volunteers Donate, On Average, 10 Times More Money than Non-Volunteers.” That’s a headline sure to get the attention of anyone in the not-for-profit world. It’s just one of the important findings in a recent study released on December 3 by the Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund and VolunteerMatch.  The findings support Energize’s long-held stance that volunteer-involving organizations should remember their “time donors” when looking to support volunteer involvement financially. In 1996, Energize President Susan J. Ellis wrote in her best-selling book From the Top Down, “studies have shown that satisfied volunteers frequently are so supportive of the organizations with which they serve that they become donors of money and goods as well.”

When revising her book, Susan greatly expanded her take on the connection between volunteering and donating funds.  Here’s an excerpt from the soon-to-be released 3rd edition of From the Top Down: The Executive Role in Successful Volunteer Involvement.

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