Fundraising- A new craze! Go fund yourself
Here’s what’s happening. Everyone’s a fundraiser now. ORLY? Why? Because we are seeing a maturation of online fundraising, a greater availability of crowdfunding platforms (550+ at the last count) and a deterioration of the social safety net. This requires people to find innovative ways to get their needs met, whether it’s funds to pay for […]
How much money should you have pledged before you go live with your crowdfunding or capital campaign?
This is part two of our interview with Andrea Kihlstedt, a national expert on Capital Campaigns, and co-founder of Capital Campaign Masters. Before you do a feasibility study, here are 4 things you need to have in place. She will be teaching at our online Nonprofit Leadership Summit on September 27th-29th. That’s just 13 days […]
Successful crowdfunding for photography
This interview is the fourth in our series about how to fundraise for your nonprofit using crowdfunding. Today I am pleased to welcome Tricia Hoffman, Executive Director of Newspace center for photography here in Portland Oregon. Tricia Hoffman has worked in non-profit management for the past 10 years, most recently at Blue Sky Gallery and […]
5 Common Questions about Nonprofit Crowdfunding
Are you coming to our crowdfunding webinar on April 29th? Brady Josephson will be teaching us all how to run more effective crowdfunding campaigns. Click here to register. Recently I asked Brady Josephson of RE: Charity and Chimp.net, a crowdfunding company in Vancouver, Canada, if he would answer a few commonly asked questions about crowdfunding. […]
Successful crowdfunding for comics: Interview with Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Hey Welcome today to our interview with Zach Weinersmith, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal! Zach makes over $8,000 a month with Patreon and draws a comic called Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Today we’re asking him how he did it, and hopefully giving you some tools and ideas you can use as you fundraise for […]
Successful crowdfunding for poetry and the arts
Hello and welcome! This interview is part of our series with wild woman fundraisers on how to do a more successful crowdfunding campaign for your nonprofit. Today we are chatting with poet and managing director of Kundiman, Cathy Linh Che. Ms Che and her committee raised over $11,600 with crowdfunding on Indiegogo in 2013. [raw] […]