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Free online fundraising resources to help you raise money and guide you in becoming a better fundraiser.
Fundraising Guides

Fundraising Tips that Work
4-Steps to Fundraising Success
The Learning and Action Journey is a common path that fundraisers follow as they move through their careers. In this guide I share helpful tips that align with each stage of this journey.

Fundraising's Enabling Ecology Approach
Four Principles to Sustain Your Organization
Too often in charitable organizations, fundraising is seen as distinct from delivering on mission. Here you'll learn about the four elements of the enabling ecology, and how to implement them: the strategies, infrastructure, culture and principles.

Fundraising Readiness Checklist
Does your organization have a strong foundation for fundraising?
This checklist is designed to help you build an enabling ecology in support of fundraising and better understand the strength of the fundraising ecosystem at your organization.
Podcast | It Doesn't Hurt to Ask!
In our first season, we're chatting with "Shift Disturbers," social sector leaders who are doing things differently. After listening, you won't think about our sector in the same way. Our motto is: in fundraising, as in life, it doesn't hurt to ask!
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EPISODE 15 | AJEEV BHATIA
Comfortable with being uncomfortable

EPISODE 14 | KEN MAYHEW
On being good-ish

EPISODE 13 | LAURA MANNING
What if they spend it badly?