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Fundraising Traps To Avoid

The Number One Reason Why Product Sales Make Terrible Fundraisers

by Jim Berigan February 5, 2012

Selling products like cookie dough, wrapping paper, or candles does nothing for developing relationships in your school or non-profit organization. You offer to sell them over-priced crap they really don’t need, they write you a check, they regret the purchase, and there’s absolutely no good-will built up for building your community going forward. Basically, you just conducted [...]

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5 Tips to Avoid Becoming an Annoying Fundraiser That Nobody Likes

by Jim Berigan January 5, 2012

When you decide to take up fundraising as a profession or even as a volunteer endeavor, you are entering a world with lots of room for controversy and even hard feelings. It’s very easy to offend someone without even knowing you’re doing it.  Asking for money can be a very sensitive subject.  There are lots [...]

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Can We Really Trust What Fundraising Companies are Telling Us?

by Jim Berigan December 22, 2011

I recently came across an article online entitled “Product Fundraisers: The Smart Choice” When I first read the article, I wasn’t sure who wrote it or where it was actually coming from. But, I dug into it a little deeper and found that it was written by a fundraising company that sells products to schools [...]

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Beware Fundraising Companies that Want to Pick Your Pocket!

by Jim Berigan December 15, 2011

One of the things that really bugs me about fundraising are product sales that take too high a percentage from the school. Case in point: I just came across an ad for a company that looked pretty cool. They are running a typical brochure fundraising scheme, but the product they are selling is licensed sports [...]

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Why Schools Should Stop Raising Money for St. Jude’s

by Jim Berigan December 14, 2011

Why schools are not the place to raise money for large, nationally-based non-profit groups

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