Granting organisations
The Wishing Well Appeal for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
It’s difficult to do justice to a capital campaign as wide, and complex. This is a condensed summary of a major capital campaign which, at the time, was the largest appeal ever mounted in the UK.
Longstowe Church, Cambridgeshire, UK: restoration appeal
‘Recession? What recession? It all goes to show that good fundraising still works, recession or not.’ How a tiny congregation in rural England raised the huge sum needed to restore their splendid church.
Give India’s Joy of Giving Week
This is a truly great initiative and one that we’re sure will be a big success. The Joy of Giving week is a first of its kind in India, and rather than being an individual fundraising activity, it acts as a platform for many NGOs across the country to raise funds for their operations.
The Big Give: online fundraising
We’re sure many fundraisers will find it hard to believe that for some donors, particularly major donors, it can be difficult to find a trustworthy, donor-friendly organisation to give their money to. The Big Give is an innovation that meets the needs of both donors and fundraisers. For charities, the website is a fantastic, and free, opportunity to showcase their projects, the real and relevant work that much of the public will fail to see, or realise needs funding.
DirectChange.org website
Is this the future of fundraising; giving donors direct control over where their money goes, instant feedback and the flexibility to decide what they will support, when and how? DirectChange.org is an exemplary use of new technology to bring new donors (and a new generation of donors) into charity to help meet urgent needs.
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.’
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.
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.
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