Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

Restaurants, retail stores, and service providers that cater to families are often good candidates. Sponsors may have concerns, budget limitations, or other commitments. Were Tight on Budget RightNow In this case, you can propose a payment timeline or a smaller sponsorship package.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. Without a budget, you can find yourself in deep water, fast, with more money going out than coming in.

Budget

Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

Does my budget, location, or mission affect my organization's ability to be awarded grants? The answers to those questions vary — sometimes dramatically — by annual budget and mission focus. In addition, grant funding comprised over 25 percent of the annual budget for 43 percent of survey respondents. Learn more.

Grantstation

Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

Keep in mind that an organization's annual budget, with the implied increases in staff and infrastructure in tandem with the increases in budget size, influences collaborative activities. In the spring 2017 report, the budget entry point to participation in collaborative grantseeking was $25 million. Learn more.

Grantstation

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Because at this point, any fat is long gone from most nonprofit budgets, including funds for personal development, technology, and general infrastructure. The regular discounted cost of an annual subscription at TechSoup is $299, and the retail price of this same one-year subscription is $699.

Grantstation

Qgiv

JULY 8, 2021

It was extra important to the team to keep the event on the calendar, not only because of its impact on their annual budget, but because it was an anticipated event that brought attention to their mission and historically resulted in adoptions and donations.

Fundraising

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Not only that, but with the move to more and more online giving (there was a 32% increase in online revenue in 2020), events like #GivingTuesday have become an even more important part of your fundraising calendar. At CauseVox, we’re all about helping everyone to meet their goals – donors and the causes they support.

Goals