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This document is a larger resource that gives detailed direction on building a strong board that can effectively fundraise for your nonprofit organization.

Describes ideas generated from a meeting of executive directors of domestic violence programs who have had success with raising unrestricted funding from their local communities.

Toolkit for managers during tough economic times and shifting political environment. While the focus is on conservation and the environment, the best practices and tools provided will assist any nonprofit in making assessments, in tracking finances, and how to make difficult decisions with the organization in mind.

There are numerous different methods that can help organizations successfully build a donor base. The NH Center for Nonprofits offers this excellent overview of the types of fundraising in an easy-to-read pdf document on their website Nonprofit Next.

This resource provides tips and recommendations for how to make your grant proposal stand out from others and assure you create a document that is well written, informative and engaging, with tips for each section of the proposal.

This report discusses the trends and patterns of funding for organizations in South Africa that address gender-based violence. Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pressing concern in South Africa, with levels of rape, domestic violence and femicide unabated during its fourteen years of democracy.

Professional grant writers use clear, specific language to focus the reader’s attention, and to persuade the reader to fund their proposal. Learning to write successful grant proposals is no small task, but the writing process can become easier with practice and awareness of a few common missteps. This page from Purdue University offers a helpful introduction to writing a successful grant proposal.

This resource provides guidance on how to combine strong data with inspiring stores to demonstrate your organization's full impact and create a compelling case for support.

For organizations who don’t have much grassroots fundraising experience or development staff dedicated to fundraising, it’s difficult to know where to start or how to stand out in this competitive fundraising environment. This article outlines a few simple tips on how social justice organizations can make the most of their end of the year fundraising.

Using case studies, useful interviews and free resources, this guide illustrates how social media provides an invaluable and underused set of tools that can facilitate the fundraising process, from identifying potential new donors and cultivating relationships to ultimately making the ask and saying thank you.

This toolkit from RoadMap uses comic book style images and superhero themes to help support social justice organizations with strategic online communications.

This framework identifies eight priority areas in which UNFPA should strategically direct programming to address gender based violence.