Publications showcase

St Michael’s Hospital Foundation: a special book to thank volunteers

Fundraisers all too often take their volunteers for granted so it’s good to see an organisation setting out specifically to be brilliant at saying thank you to them. Having raised $140 million thanks to the help of volunteers it was reasonable that the people at St Michael’s should invest time and resources in saying thank you properly. 

Missing People’s online annual review

How to use the Internet to brilliantly present your flagship publication. In this piece you will see reporting to donors as it should be, easily accessible, transparent, exciting, informative, using all the potential for short, high-impact and memorable messages that makes the Internet such a versatile medium for fundraisers.

Lake Simcoe Conservation Foundation: 2008 progress report

From this one low-cost publication donors can clearly see what their donations have achieved. When presenting this progress report in person to one of our major donors, he said: ‘I wish some of the other organisations I am involved with would produce this kind of stuff.’

ALS Canada – ‘Ways to Support’ document

SOFII has simple tastes. We love fundraising that costs little but raises lots. Anyone can copy these materials, which are so homemade they...

MCC-Murray Culshaw Consulting Pvt Ltd: 2007/8 annual report

This is an annual report specifically designed to help India’s nonprofit organisations to communicate effectively and economically through their annual report. But you don’t have to be in India to benefit from this simple clear tutorial. Have a look now.

Lake Simcoe Conservation Foundation: 2007 annual report

How do you recognise your donors, produce a key communications tool on the cheap and still manage to turn in a handy profit – all in a ‘one-person fundraising shop’?

Planned Parenthood Rhode Island: donor newsletter

PPRI used an already established newsletter formula since it has proved successful at bringing in extra revenue. may not be the very best newsletter in the world but it’s certainly a very good example of how to get this important communications vehicle right.

British Heart Foundation: the poster series

A great series of posters from the British Heart Foundation with both public education and awareness messages.

ActionAid: transparency and readability

This exhibit shows great accountability and transparency but it’s also an object lesson in how not to communicate via the printed page.

The Children’s Hospital Trust operating theatre complex campaign

This is a good example of how different types of fundraising can work alongside one another to create a successful campaign with a broad appeal.

University fundraising: how to reach younger alumni cost effectively

Thanks to Adrian Salmon and Leeds University, we’re able to bring you the first (but hopefully not the last) alumni fundraising exhibit. You can read about the strategy, see the adverts themselves and get a full break-down of their commendable results.