Greetings!  I would like to introduce a new guest author to Step by Step Fundraising.  Jo Miles is a marketing consultant at Beaconfire, where she works with clients to create successful fundraising campaigns and online communications, and uses analytics to help engage users online. Beaconfire helps nonprofit organizations that serve good causes accomplish great things […]

As non-profit professionals, I know we are always trying to avoid making serious “fundraising mistakes.” There are definitely some issues that everyone raising money for any cause should be aware of before asking anyone for funds. Guidestar has an excellent article posted on their site called  The 20 Biggest Fundraising Mistakes, Part I which covers […]

At the end of each month, I will be posting a complete list of article links to blog posts that I have written that month on the three different sites I manage for FastTrack Fundraising: Step by Step Fundraising, Top School Fundraisers, and of course, FundraisingIdeas.org. Checking out these links is a great way to […]

I just came across a posting for a pretty interesting job. It’s the “Regional Director of Donor Relations for the George W. Bush Presidential Library.” Wow. There may be jobs in the fundraising field which are technically bigger in scope, say running a billion dollar campaign for the Cleveland Clinic, but I think that working […]

Here is a wonderful guest post from Marc Pitman (pictured at left), aka The Fundraising Coach. Marc has been a long-time friend of Step By Step Fundraising, and he is also the author of a great book, “Ask Without Fear“.  If you haven’t visited Marc’s site, I urge you to do so.  There is a […]

In my research for this blog, I come across some really interesting newspaper articles, websites, and blog posts about the subject of non-profit fundraising. While I do my best to comment on these stories as much as possible, I simply can’t get to everything that catches my eye. Therefore, every so often, I will post […]

Today I had one of those “proud parent” moments. A photo of my six year old daughter in her swim cap, Speedo race suit, and goggles was splashed across the front page of the sports section in our local paper. The paper had done a large story on our youth swim team. My daughter just […]