The Aviva Community Fund is back with another year of supporter-driven grantmaking. Line up your project details, cue your supporters, and get ready to compete for your share of the grant pool.
One year of experience five times, or five years of experience with growing responsibilities and achievements? You'll want the second path, of course. Phil Gerard has tips for finding it - without leaving your present job.
Can you imagine raising $650,000 in just one week for a previously unknown cause? That's what Toronto's Max Sidorov did when he came across an online video of middle-school students taunting their bus monitor Karen Klein, a New York state grandmother. Here's what professional fundraisers can learn from his success.
Symphony audiences, donors and leadership all come from the silver-haired set, right? Not if the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has its way. The orchestra has already changed its audience demographics, wooed the under-35s to their own donors' club, and invited the Young Leadership Council to lead, right alongside the much older power brokers who traditionally hold leadership positions.
Consultant Dania T. Miwa of Toscano Advisors doesn't buy into some of the hype surrounding social media and fundraising even though she's an experienced blogger, tweeter and Facebook user herself. Here are five myths she recently reminded fundraisers not to believe.
One year of experience five times, or five years of experience with growing responsibilities and achievements? You'll want the second path, of course. Phil Gerard has tips for finding it - without leaving your present job.
Can you imagine raising $650,000 in just one week for a previously unknown cause? That's what Toronto's Max Sidorov did when he came across an online video of middle-school students taunting their bus monitor Karen Klein, a New York state grandmother. Here's what professional fundraisers can learn from his success.
Symphony audiences, donors and leadership all come from the silver-haired set, right? Not if the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has its way. The orchestra has already changed its audience demographics, wooed the under-35s to their own donors' club, and invited the Young Leadership Council to lead, right alongside the much older power brokers who traditionally hold leadership positions.
