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A strong fundraising campaign uses diversified approaches to soliciting funds. The Stanford Social Innovation Review provides this overview of the different ways that nonprofits can raise support for their organization.

This article describes a three-step process for developing a fundraising plan that helps engage your audience to interact with your organization, your mission and your cause. The article provides several useful templates to help in planning a strategy. 

As described in this resource from BoardSource, fundraising policies include expectations of board member financial contributions as well as participation in fundraising efforts. This resource also provides a sample guideline for creating fundraising polices.

The purpose of a fundraising communications toolkit for nonprofit board members is to provide them with the tools that they need to effectively raise funds for the organization. This brief article outlines what resources should be included in the toolkit.

This resource provides an overview of a more detailed 2015 guide created by Independent Sector. It lists 33 principles for successful practice in the areas of governance, legal compliance, financial oversight, and responsible fundraising.

This document provides an overview of the role of the board as a whole, individual board members, the chief executive, the development staff and the development committee in fundraising efforts.

This commemorative webinar celebrates the far-reaching impact of FVPSA, the first Federal commitment to creating a pathway to safety for survivors of domestic violence and their children.

This blog written by fund raising expert Gail Perry provides some helpful strategies to help the board and staff become more comfortable with their involvement in fundraising activities

This guide provides specific guidelines for individual organizations to evaluate and improve their operations, governance, human resources, advocacy, financial management, and fundraising.

This checklist provides advice on how to embark upon public policy and lobbying activities for nonprofit organizations.

Nonprofit organizations that rely on just a few sources of funding often struggle financially and have a hard time sustaining their efforts. Assuring that an agency has diversified revenue is vital to its future. This resource provides information on best practices for various revenue streams.

This report highlights data that documents how well local domestic violence programs are addressing the needs of those reaching out to them for assistance. This substantial data collection effort involved 90 urban, rural and suburban community-based domestic violence programs and nearly 1,500 domestic violence survivors surveyed in 2010 about their experiences seeking and receiving non-residential domestic violence services.