Fundraising productivity articles

Howard Lake | 17 July 1997 | News

• Tagged with:
• Giving/Philanthropy
• Management

Bill Levis (of Baruch College at CUNY) has published online a series of papers on Fundraising productivity covering issues relating to fundraising regulation policy.

Subjects covered include:

• Average Gift Size
• Funding Fund Raising Report
• Increased Giving by Investing More Money in Fund Raising Wisely
• Questions Donors Ask and How They Can Be Answered By the Financial Statements of Not-For-Profit Organizations
• Realities of Fund-Raising Costs and Accountability
• ROI Analysis

The papers are a special series accompanying The Nonprofit FAQ. These are the Frequently Asked Questions files for soc.org.nonprofit, and remain one of the best voluntary collaborative sources of nonprofit information on the Internet. For those that have not yet discovered this resource, their fundraising information includes:

• Small Donor Fundraising
  Information and Strategies for Securing Support in the Form of Relatively Small Gifts from Relatively Large Numbers of People. (Section Editor: Neil Berkowitz)

• Large Donor Fundraising
  Seeking Financial and Other Support from a Limited Number of Strong and Exceptionally Generous Backers.
  (Section Editor: Ina Frank)

• Institutional Fundraising
  Observations about Grants and Corporate Sponsorships.
  (Section Editor: Ina Frank)

• Fundraising Issues
  Ethical, Legal and Philosophical Issues that Arise in Connection with Fundraising. (For example: Should fundraisers be paid on commission?)
  (Section Editor: Putnam Barber)

Information for Nonprofits is a project of The Evergreen State Society, in Seattle, WA, USA.

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.