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New Money on the Block: Funders for Housing and Opportunity
A new funding collaborative, Funders for Housing and Opportunity, has just launched. The collaborative, officially a project of the New Ventures Fund, involves (so far) nine large and well-known foundations.
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Anniversary Fundraising
The Center for Anti-Violence Education in Brooklyn, New York works to end violence against women and children through community education programs, self-defense courses and martial arts training. In 1993, we […]
The Executive Director and Development Director Relationship
This article is for development directors (DD) and the executive directors (ED) who supervise them. The executive director can be a development director’s greatest ally or biggest challenge, but rarely […]
First Steps to a Capital Campaign
A “capital” campaign is a two-to-five year effort to raise money for a one time need over and above the annual budget. They are usually used to buy, build or […]
Raising Money for Progressive Arts and Culture Organizations
Discussions about the difficulty of raising money for certain issues are generally started by people who feel sorry for themselves. Nevertheless, progressive arts and culture organizations face challenges that can […]
Capital Campaigns
Burdened by the typical funding limitation CDCs face – program specific, short term, restricted use, etc. – Isles, Inc. of Trenton, New Jersey decided to create an endowment – invested […]
Approaching Corporations for Funding
For more than 30 years, the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel has published an annual report called Giving USA, which analyzes trends in philanthropy and measures the extent of giving […]
CDCs Access New Economic Development Resources
Historically, community development organizations have pursued traditional federal funding for their economic development projects. Grants and loans are annually requested from: HUD’s Community Development Block Grant Program (although its economic […]
Collaborative Fundraising
My grandmother, when she wanted to describe a scary but potentially important undertaking (such as going on a trip to another country, or opening a business, or adopting a child), […]
Ten Common Sense Ways to Fill Your Development Funding Gap
One of the most challenging stages of any affordable housing project is securing the final subsidies that make the project financially feasible. The difficulty lies with the fact that at […]
When Fundraising Strategies Wear Out
Nearly all organizations have three fundraising fantasies: Fantasy 1: The Council on Foundations will declare their group, “The group to fund now and forever” and, using one simple proposal […]
Why People of Color Need to Be Good Fundraisers
When I started out in fundraising 10 years ago, I was usually the only person of color in the room. Today, the situation is much the same. Whether it is […]
Why Do Grassroots Fundraising?
Organizations working on housing issues often suggest that the work of building a base of individual donors is out of proportion to the amount they bring in. “Compare,” says one […]