The main areas of fundraising
Arthritis Care: ‘people like us’ campaign
by SOFII
This colourful, imaginative campaign recruited new members at one third of previous costs because it’s creative, engaging and thought-provoking. It stirred people from their daily routine into doing something different.
Read moreBulgarian Red Cross: ‘one SMS, one hot meal for one Bulgarian child’ campaign
by SOFII
These campaigns successfully united several established fundraising techniques including building corporate alliances and the use of new and old media.
Read moreDogs Trust: sponsor a dog
by SOFII
One of the most imaginative, instructive adaptations of the concept fundraisers have dubbed ‘the best fundraising proposition of all time’.
Read moreHelvetas: integrating awareness and fundraising
by SOFII
It's good to see an organisation that is prepared to shock us into seeing that many people just don’t have the basic amenities we take for granted.
Read moreProstate Cancer Research Fund: fundraising from beyond the grave
by SOFII
How often does a fundraising campaign bring a star back from the dead to front a campaign for the disease that killed him? This is innovative fundraising, no doubt.
Read morePlanned Parenthood Rhode Island: donor newsletter
by SOFII
PPRI used an already established newsletter formula since it has proved successful at bringing in extra revenue. may not be the very best newsletter in the world but it's certainly a very good example of how to get this important communications vehicle right.
Read moreThe Lost Dogs’ Home, Melbourne: Friend of PAWs microsite
by SOFII
Although in recent years the Internet has by any definition come into its own as an indispensable tool for fundraisers, most are still not adept at using the medium to acquire new donors. So the Lost Dogs’ Home’s successful experience of online acquisition should be closely watched by many.
Read moreUNICEF Pigotta project: adopt a doll and save a life
by SOFII
Another excellent idea from UNICEF that not only raises lots of money, but shows volunteers, particularly children, how important immunisation against deadly childhood illnesses is in the developing world. It also demonstrates how ‘it will never work here’ just isn’t true and that good ideas can be adapted to other cultures.
Read moreConversion of a techno-sceptic
by Richard C McPherson
Only a few things in life are worth missing a flight for. I’d like to tell you about two of them. The first is merely amusing but the other, I think, you will find of more value. The first was only the second flight I’d missed, ever. It was going to Oslo, Norway, but I was stuck on London’s Hammersmith roundabout…
Review by Ken Burnett.
Read moreStation WNED, Buffalo and Toronto: ‘thank you’ card to a donor
by SOFII
This is so quick, simple, cheap and easy it is just great. Why can't all fundraisers take a leaf out of Channel 17's book and send donors promptly a cheery, appropriate and inexpensive thank you like this?
Read moreWWF integrated legacy marketing campaign
by SOFII
This is truly ground-breaking communication for fundraising. Not only did these press advertisements and posters herald a new approach to the promotion of legacies (bequests) but they were also the first ads to use jargon-free language and to talk about legacies in plain, everyday terms that any one could understand.
Read moreGreenpeace Australia: The legacy beer mat
by SOFII
The copy you see above is a line that every writer wishes he or she had written. If half the challenge with legacy marketing is how do you raise the delicate subject with donors, then this brilliant promotion hits every button perfectly. Without doubt, it is a fundraising classic. But did it actually generate many bequests? Click to find out...