In my direct fundraising and also my fundraising consulting work, the majority of nonprofits that I work with see themselves as social justice groups, and of those, many see themselves as racial justice organizations. The staff, board and member/client base of most of these group
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After four years on staff at GIFT, I’m heading out for new adventures. We’re hiring a Training & Network Coordinator to help take GIFT to the next level of awesome. This new position is designed for the fundraiser-organizer-trainer extraordinaire who is wildly, unabashedly commit
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Hey there, Money for Our Movements attendees (you’re coming, right?), Let’s do some creative resource-sharing and make movement dollars stretch further: If you’re interested in sharing a room at the downtown Marriott (or elsewhere) while you attend the conference, please leave a
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Hi, We urgently need to put out our first fundraising letter ever but only have email addresses for people (and in some cases, phone numbers). Should we send a nice looking letter by email, then follow up by phone, or should we just call to get the snail mail address, send the le
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Dear Kim, I give away a fair amount of money in $100-$250 increments, and sorting through some papers, I realized that I had supported about 20 organizations. I was personally thanked by four of them, and got a generic thank you postcard from three of them, and nothing from the
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Dear Readers: Don’t forget to sign up for the Money for our Movements Conference August 12-13! It is a great place to learn with other social justice activists and long time grassroots fundraising experts. I’ll see you there! Kim
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Dear Readers: Don’t forget to sign up for the Money for our Movements Conference August 12-13! It is a great place to learn with other social justice activists and long time grassroots fundraising experts. I’ll see you there! Kim
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If you’re coming to the U.S. Social Forum, please take a minute to jot down the info for GIFT’s workshop: All Money and Power to the People: Using Grassroots Fundraising to Fund Our Liberation Facilitated by GIFT, Colorado Anti-Violence Program and CISPES (Committee In Solidarity
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Untapped: Developing & Deepening Relationships with Donors for Community Organizing A GIFT Webinar Featuring Marjorie Fine June 29, 2010 10am Pacific/11am Mountain/12pm Central/1pm Eastern Having a hard time communicating the importance of community organizing to prospective dono
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In just 12 days, 25,000 people from across the United States and beyond will converge on Detroit for the United States Social Forum. We work on different issues, come from different regions, hold different identities, and we probably disagree on a lot of things. But we agree that
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These are exciting, scary and sometimes confusing times we live in. From the recent national controversy surrounding SB 1070—the Arizona law that criminalizes immigrants and encourages racial profiling—to last month’s disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there is plenty to
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Dear Kim: We have a really generous but very difficult donor. He gives about $20,000 a year, and in some years has given $50,000. He is by far our biggest donor (we have a few donors who give $5,000 and several hundred who give anywhere from $25-$1,000) and it is my job to go s
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Dear Readers: What are you doing August 12-13? I hope as many of you as possible will be answering, “Coming to the Money for Our Movements Conference!” This biennial conference is being held this year at Mills College in Oakland and will feature trainers and participants from al
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Memorial Day! The unofficial start of summer! Ease back into your work week with some easy summer reading: Here’s the first of our monthly Best of the Blog, where GIFT’s staff pulls out some of our favorite tips, tools and inspiration from the world of fundraising and philanthrop
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We preach that fundraisers shouldn’t panic; that people are still giving, even in these tough times. But I find it hard to raise money from people (mainly people of color) in this economic environment. It feels awkward to fundraise or encourage giving when communities are facin
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Fundraising is a dance between scarcity and abundance, in terms of the bottom line and the inner experience. Our organizations are working to change patterns of injustice that seem impossible to fix in our lifetimes; it’s not surprising that a wide range of reactions can and do
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It’s so exciting that Ai-jen Poo will be a keynote speaker for Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference: Ai-jen Poo on Organizing and Fundraising with Love: Ai-jen has been organizing immigrant women workers in New York since 1996. She works at the Nationa
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Good news: Registration’s now open for Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference! We plan to limit registration to just 500 people this year, so register now. 500 is a nice number: big enough to make an impact across many social justice movements, but not s
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Thanks to the 2000+ people who read our blog in our first week! For your trouble, here’s a sneak-peek of the most popular part of our conference: the debate. For the record, I don’t like debates much; the competition can get combative sometimes. I much prefer featuring collaborat
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GIFT: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training Workshop proposals extended till next Monday 5/17...get yours in this week!
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Dear Kim: We have several donors who have given us $1000-$5,000 for three or four years, and then last year and this year only gave $100-250. I have thanked them, but heard you say in a keynote that we should call people like that and ask them why they decreased their giving. T
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Dear Kim: In our organization, the executive director has the staff rotate taking minutes at the board meeting. She takes a turn, which I admire. The problem is that after the meeting, we all turn in our minutes to her and then she goes through the minutes and sometimes changes
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GIFT: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training #10MFOM Workshops proposals due next Tuesday for the largest conference of fundraisers for social justice: Lead a workshop, discussion or caucus!
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Money for Our Movements (August 12-13, 2010 in Oakland, CA ) is the next version of Raising Change: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference, which GIFT (Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training) presented in 2006 and 2008. ...
GIFT: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training #10MFOM Our new blog is up! Weigh in on workshop topics for Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference
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Here are some topics from our ’08 conference that we thought it made sense to have again. Please let us know if you really want to see a topic that we didn’t list; if you convince us that it’s worth it, ...
GIFT: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training #10mfom Ai-jen Poo will rock Money for Our Movements keynote: interview at Organizing Upgrade
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Ai-jen Poo reflects on the current political moment and offers lessons from her 15 years of on-the-ground organizing.
GIFT: Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training OMG. Ai-jen Poo (National Domestic Workers Alliance, Domestic Workers United, Social Justice Leadership, Alston/Bannerman fellow) keynotes GIFT's Money for Our Movements conference!
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