Kresge Research Guides: Nonprofit Organizations & NGOs: Fundraising

Fundraising Information

Online articles from Guidestar. While brief, they do cover a great number of issues and concepts of importance to nonprofit organizations.
Since finances cut across all aspects of nonprofit work, consider viewing all the articles on Guidestar

This blog focuses on sharing ideas about fundraising and was started by Jason Dick, a college campaign manager in Washington state.
Recent postings (2009) focus on fundraising in the current poor economic times.

Great resource for exploring fundraising issues and statistics - included many links to executive summaries of reports on nonprofits
Fundraising FAQs
Fundraising Reports and Research Articles including annual reports on the support of nonprofits in the United States.
The AFP Fundraising Dictionary Online (a great 133page PDF resource that helps explain terms of note in this field.

From their website, Benevon "...trains and coaches nonprofit organizations to implement a mission-based system for raising sustainable funding from individual donors. This system ends the suffering about fundraising and builds passionate and committed lifelong donors."
They offer software, books and tutorials on their system for a fee. They also include numerous freely available resources and articles.

Idealist.org Articles of note include:

Overview of state by state fundraising guidelines that need to be met in order for a nonprofit to raise money.

Excellent source for information on US Nonprofits
US Nonprofit Sector Overview
National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (from the Urban League)
- From the site: "The National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) system is used by the IRS and NCCS to classify nonprofit organizations. It is also used by the Foundation Center to classify both grants and grant recipients (typically nonprofits or governments)." Resources of note include:
  - Search NTEE by keyword
  - Data Analysis tools

Items of note include:
- Gain Knowledge (Resource Center) - a great place for reports, articles and statistics on nonprofits in the US.
- Links to nonprofit information elsewhere

From their site: "The Mobile Giving Foundation (MGF), headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, was founded in 2007 by veterans of the wireless industry who wanted to harness the immense power of wireless communications to empower non-profit organizations. The concept was simple: give the 250 million American wireless users a single “Mobile Giving Channel” over which they could receive and respond to appeals from worthy causes."
Information of note includes their News page that showcases recent success in this area.

Nonprofit Tech for Good was created and is managed by Heather Mansfield.
The mission is: "Nonprofit Tech for Good focuses on providing valuable, easy-to-understand information, news, and resources related to nonprofit technology, online communications, and mobile and social fundraising."
Excellent source for mobile giving and other information on using social media for nonprofits.

From their site: "NTEN aspires to a world where all nonprofit organizations skillfully and confidently use technology to meet community needs and fulfill their missions. We are the membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. Our members share the common goal of helping nonprofits use all aspects of technology more effectively."
Pages of note include:
- Mobile Giving Topic Page
- Mobile and Social Media Reports - which include some great items.