This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Colt Lapham from TicketPrinting.com 6.  Online Raffles Online raffle events present great possibilities to raise substantial funds for your organization.  It is possible to sell an astounding number of high priced raffle tickets for a high value item, or reach many small groups ...

  Here are amazingly exciting news to look forward to in 2008. PARADE and The Case Foundation today announced the America’s Giving Challenge to award $500,000 to charities in the U.S. and overseas. The program aims to show how anyone and everyone can have greater impact in their community and bring more support to the charities ...

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com 4a. Wiki Pages A “wiki” is a website that can be easily edited by its users.  The most popular wiki today is Wikipedia which is an online encyclopedia where people from all over the word update and add information.  However, wiki pages can be ...

It's crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to take advantage of the holiday giving season. If you don't have a plan in place yet, no worries. This guide from Care2's Eric Rardin and Heather Holdridge, along with Mark Rovner and Sarah Haug of Sea Change Strategies, ''A Procrastinator's Guide to Year-End Fundraising'' will give you a crash ...

Network for Good released a new report called The Wired Fundraiser: How technology is making fundraising 'good to go'. The report written by Katya Andresen and Stacie Mann covers what happens when people with a cause take it to cyberspace; why marketers and fundraisers like us should care; and what we should do about the phenomenon. The full ...

  Tim Fullerton is the Online Communications Lead for Oxfam America, an organization committed to creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. In the following interview, Tim and I talk about the use of social networking sites MySpace to reach out to people, build a community and recruit new activists and donors. ...

In this Mini-Case Study, we interview Priscilla Christian and highlight La Habra High School Alumni Association as a very special project.   Priscilla Christian, Vice Chairwoman and Webmaster La Habra High School Alumni Association   Priscilla serves as Vice Chairwoman and Webmaster. Over the last 20 years she has ...

Non-profits organizations using Facebook can now launch a social-networking-based fundraising drive for their cause, promote it to their friends and network, and raise money. That in a nutshell is what a new mini-application within Facebook called Causes is all about. Launched by Project Agape, this new service extends the “group” features and ...

There's a great article called ''Paul's Top 11 online ways to raise money for your non-profit without going to a foundation, spamming your friends, or hiring an uber geek to manage your ''some assembly required'' fundraising software.'' at the Cool n' Conscientious blog. I guess the title says it all, but it's a quite handy list for non-profits ...