Share your advice and resources on fundraising here

Many organisations will need outside funding at some point, but it can be hard to know which methods of fundraising will be most effective for you.
This discussion is a place where you can share your experience of fundraising and request advice from others. You can also post links to useful information available elsewhere on the internet.
Examples may include:
* Sharing experience of what has worked well for you, and what has not
* Advice on how to find local, national and international donor organisations
* Holding successful fundraising events
* Alternatives to donations e.g. making money from your projects to make them self-sustaining
* Writing proposals and filling in grant application forms
* How to approach companies for donations
* Using online fundraising sites
* Links to websites with advice on proposal writing, lists of donor organisations etc
Please DO NOT post any requests for money here.

Hi David,
Great examples, thanks!
NABUUR is already on Twitter: www.twitter.com/nabuur
This is regularly updated with the newest stories on NABUUR.
Pelle
Hi David,
This is a very interesting post. I have recently signed up for Twitter, but I guess I am not clear on how this can work. You said you raised $10000 in 48 hours using Twitter and viral marketing. Can you provide a bit more detail on how to go about this? I have recently signed up on Twitter as well as Social Actions and have started blogging on some of the work we do (I also operate a charity based in Canada so I am interested in this concept for that as well as the Nabuur projects). Do you require an established nework already? For EpicChange did you have an existing group that this all went to? Did you have to have a large following on Twitter first? Maybe we can chat more about this?
Barb
Hi Barb
I am the Secretary of children/youth assembly Sawera model school a project of Sawera Foundation Muzaffarabad Azad kashmir pakistan.We are providing free education to orfhans, earthquake victims as well as other poor families of kashmiri Refugees children in AJK who migrated from occupied kashmir.At the moment we are handling 3 schools in AJK.But we have main problem for infrastructure.We need funding for infrastructure as well as arrangments of books, uniforms and other basic necessities of children of 3 schools (1200 canidates) but at the moment we are not in position to provide books ,uniforms and other school facilities to these children due to lack of finance. So i am requesting to you to provide us such donors links for our future schools sessions.
I hope you will help us in this matter.If you need further informations regarding our schools please contact me.
Regards,
Qasir Rafiq
Secretary
Sawera children/youth assembly
Sawera Foundation
Azad kashmir pakistan
0092-3009767096
raanlife@hotmail.com
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qasir
Barb
The best thing you can do to make the most of social media is to start to educate yourself via sites like ehow.com and Youtube. Great tips on these sites. At the end of the day, you need to remember that social media is primarily 'social' so mix it up with your posts in terms of seeking support and contributing good content. This way, you are more likely to engage people.
Look for people or agencies in the search function that you think can help you and follow them. When you do this, check out via their profiles who is following them. Spend a little time scouting about 3-5 people new to follow who could be good network links for you and your charity.
Posting useful, valuable and informative links and content are key to getting participation in social media such as Twitter.
Any volunteers you work with, if they like spending time online, engage them in developing your social media.
Social media can be time consuming. Tools can help to make you more efficient. Check out: HootSuite , Owly , Bit.ly Tweetdeck Consider multiple accounts and managing them via a dashboard such as Tweetdeck.
Get a plan together for using social media... I have some info I could share on file somewhere probably!
If you have a website, it is possible to link all these together. Gimme a shout if you have any questions : )
Good luck and have fun D
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If I am not sure of my next step, I ask or make it up as I go along : D
--Dear SIR,,
Greetings,
I offer you volunteer position as an educational advisor for Rural
University, India,
we offer you volunteer for developing course contents and online teaching and online training our prospective students WORLDWIDE.
we have our course development center in India. The server for
them is http://ruralu.org. They are applying for accreditation in
India and need overseers with academic credentials.
In the United States, we operate as an Independent Study Resource
only. We do not confer degrees here. Our units in South Africa,
Nigeria and India will receive degrees from the India office once
accreditation is acquired. It is important that we have feedback and
criticism from qualified independent educators like your self.
Please reply,
Thanks
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pankajmohan
pankajmohan
pankajmohan
Dear Jon.
I work with Deaf youths and would like tolearn more about your idea. We have a village called furaha Center for the Deaf already at nabuur.
Kindly shade some more light.
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Solomon Otieno
YOU CAN CONTACT ALL THE EMBASSY WITHIN YOUR LOCALITY MANY OF THESE EMBASSY SUPPORT EDUCATION PROGRAMM, YOU CAN ALSO CONTACT CROSSROAD INTERNATIONAL IN HONG KONG.
SAHEED
We GCDF need donor that can fund establishment of hospital,caring for orphans and school in Nigeria.
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ADISA
Halo,
I can say that I'm new here and i would like to know much from all of you members thanks a lot
Jefferson
great work pankaj... can you tell me the procedure to associate with you guys as a volunteer. i m teacher by profession and can help in developing learning material
Please i want to be part but how in my country or on internet??please you can answer me on phone 00233245241693 I want to hear from you soon.THANKS
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Its has been a very very long walk for Nabuur and its members.Having a long list of organisations i dont feel is the answer to making them have the funding.Availing them with even the outline of how a proposal should be done will not suffice but i feel that we should go to the core issue at hand which is to make sure that these people really understand what is in there for them to be able to grip what it involves to dfundrasie and to be able to stir the very much needed capacity to the donors and the grantors of funds that they want to be people who want that kind of help that is being availed to them.
When i posted the 1st time on the new site on what i was willing to do online it has been about 3 months since i last saw what i posted and no response on what i was going to do.I thought it was wise to first try and raise awareness on what we should do about fund raising and there i was pasting and writing and making sure that the little knowledge that i have on fund raising is got to other people but unfortunately it was never meant to be.No time has gone by and there seems that we still dont understand what we are meant to do with all these organizations that we have as funders and grantors as well as donors.The underlying factor.................we need to know what fund raising is before we seek to get the funds!
hey nice to know the things people doo for country 's hey I guess you guys raising funds is good for the kids back home and where ever they might be especaily what your fighten for .!!!
well have a nice day Vanessa
hey nice to know the things people doo for country 's hey I guess you guys raising funds is good for the kids back home and where ever they might be especaily what your fighten for .!!!
well have a nice day Vanessa
hey whats it like down there? sun shing probably nice i need warm weather and your people just wondering and god bless your country
vanessa