Fundraising

Basic & Advanced Fundraising Trainings

If your organization is feeling a bit too reliant on grant funding, stymied by a lack of corporate giving, or you simply want to diversify your funding base, do good's hands-on fundraising trainings are for you. Our interactive workshops blend lecture, small group activities, one-on-one reflection, and personal action planning to give your staff, volunteers, and board members the information needed to be successful in fundraising efforts. Participants leave with concrete tools to strategically analyze and re-frame fundraising efforts, new energy and encouragement, and solid ideas for creating positive change.

do good's fundraising trainings will give your group a strong understanding of where charitable dollars come from in the U.S., who gives and what motivates them to do so, and what the best ways are to raise funds. The basics of mailed campaigns, major gifts, and matching challenges can also be covered.

Participants will leave energized and ready to review current fundraising efforts to find untapped opportunities, and feel ready to take the steps necessary to diversity and strengthen their organization's fundraising efforts.

Plan Development

Fundraising plans are ‘roadmaps’ that help you set funding priorities and goals, limit crisis fund raising, increase board involvement, diversify and fully engage your funding base, and help you take advantage of more opportunities. Learn to unobtrusively integrate fund development with other program activities, add emotional ‘punch’ to your fundraising tools, and make the most productive use of your team’s time. The results are guaranteed to be amazing!

Individual Donations

Donations from people are the lifeblood of any organization. In 2003, nearly $200 billion was donated by individuals to charities. By comparison, foundations and corporations combined gave only $40 billion. If you are not raising 85% of your funds from individuals, you are missing a massive opportunity. With do good, learn to identify new donors, increase the level of support from current donors, transform small donors into major donors, and excite your staff and board while doing so. Move past quick funding fixes and on to long-term sustainable fundraising.

Matching Challenges

When is $1 not $1? Matching challenges are powerful ways for your donors to leverage their philanthropic impact. Work with do good to find ways to use matching challenges to bring new money into your organization faster than you've ever known. Matching gifts breath new life into your fundraising efforts, challenge your organization to grow its capacity, earn the respect of foundations, inspire your staff, engage your donors, and get the attention of the media.

Gift Planning

Millions of people make gifts to nonprofit organizations by way of gift planning. Gift planning is the use of strategic tax and financial planning techniques to help donors make a charitable/financial gift commitments to the charities they support. Gift planning includes an array of options including: bequests and wills, legacy and major gifts, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, chartable lead trusts, retained life estates, and many other options. Such techniques not only provide significant tax and financial benefits to donors, they also provide nonprofit organizations with excellent sources of sustainable, long-term financial support. At do good we can help your organization by offering:

• One-on-one consulting on specific gift planning needs
• Customized trainings for your organization on a variety of topics for any audience, including volunteer boards, staff, and prospective donors
• Comprehensive and customized resource acquisition plans
• Preparation of written proposals, including prospect research and presentation role-plays
• Writing for gift planning newsletters, appeals, and marketing brochures
• Ongoing advice on a myriad of gift planning topics

If you are a donor looking for new ways to increase your giving impact on your favorite organizations, do good can also help you:

• Discover ways to make larger gifts than you may have thought possible
• Learn how to make gifts that actually "give back" for a time, providing extra income in retirement years or helping to fund elder care, educational expenses and other needs of loved ones
• Add special meaning to your gift by making a gift that honors a special friend or loved one
• See how to save money on income, gift, and estate taxes and instead put those amounts to use in ways you choose
• Enjoy giving more, knowing that you're giving the most you can at the lowest possible cost

Grantwriting/Grant Research

If you feel swamped with work already, but your boss and board are leaning on you to do more by way of grantwriting and grant research, do good can help. In addition to assisting you with grant research and writing, learn to use your limited time to find your best-matched foundations and write solid, concise proposals that will grab funders' attention.

Corporate Giving

Think businesses in your community should be more engaged in your programs? Corporate giving accounts for nearly 10% of charitable donations nationwide, and experts feel corporate giving is on the rise. If you feel intimidated by tapping this goldmine because you don't know how to "play the system" or feel business-savvy, let do good show you how to engage them through a multi-faceted corporate giving approach that will get businesses bragging about their work with you.

 

“The workshop do good Consulting ran for BACH has paid for itself many times over. We've become more professional as an organization with a greater sense of common purpose and energy in the group. do good’s ideas – from our new motto to simply wearing nametags – have created new momentum and improved our image. Thank you, do good, for helping BACH move forward!” ~ John Wagstaff, board member, Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH)

Services >> Fundraising

“We would like corporate donors, but don't know how to get started.”

"We have no gift planning strategy and have no idea what CRTs, CGA's or life estates are or how to word bequest and will language."

“I don't have the time to write grants and don't know where to look!”

“My board doesn't feel that they need to help with fundraising.”

“We would like to create a diverse fundraising plan to help us better plan for our organization's future.”