"A revenue plan, unlike a traditional fundraising plan, is an integrated, thoughtful, and strategic way to help a nonprofit achieve social impact in a more sustainable way. The revenue plan is a key element of a nonprofit’s strategic plan. It is critical that an organization understand the cost of
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achieving the goals set out in the strategic plan (expenses) and how it will pay for them (revenue). Fundraising, raising money from private sources (individuals, foundations, and corporations), is just one revenue options available to nonprofits. Additional options include: earned income (selling a product or service), government grants, fee for service, and corporate sponsorships, just to name a few. A revenue plan differs from a fundraising plan in a number of ways. Unlike a fundraising plan, a revenue plan: includes all activities that bring money in the door in a fully integrated strategy and execution plan; supports the short AND long term goals of the organization; funds the programs AND infrastructure of the organization; employs money-securing activities that are in line with the core competencies of the organization." (Page 1)
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"The Guide presents principles, minimum standards and best practices, business processes, references and tools deemed important for effective, efficient, and sustainable organizations. The Guide consists of ten chapters that cover the key functional areas of most organizations. Each chapter (and ind
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eed each step and process within each chapter) can be used as a stand-alone document. With the exception of Chapter 3, Health and Human Services Regulations, the chapters in the Guide can be used by many different types of organizations, in many sectors (such as agriculture, health, peacebuilding, water supply, nutrition, education, or environment.) CRS offers the Guide as an adaptable tool which may be used to develop new, or strengthen existing, policies, processes and practices." (About the guide, page 7)
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Beschreibt alle gängigen Fundraising-Methoden und gibt Anleitung zur praktischen Umsetzung. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis: u.a. Greenpeace, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, WWF, Deutsche Herzstiftung.
"This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and ques
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tions whether these are appropriate and viable options or attempts to 'roll-back' NGOs to a more one-dimensional function as organizers of national and global charity. Input and case studies are provided from NGOs such as ActionAid, and from every part of the globe including China, Indonesia and Uganda." (Publisher description)
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"Tools for Development" aims to help you deliver successful development activities and interventions by giving you access to the skills and techniques you will need to do so. The demand for it has come from DFID staff both in the UK and overseas who recognise that development initiatives inside and
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outside DFID need to be designed and managed using people-driven and performancebased management methods. Over the past decade, DFID has worked with others to develop new methodologies and refine earlier ones to support such approaches; the range of techniques from which to choose is still expanding." (Introduction, page 1.1)
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"This book brings together key readings in the NGO managment literature, focusing on NGDO's working on issues of poverty and injustice in developing countries and on a global scale. The contributions which are drawn from a wide variety of sources ranging from books and journal articles to agency pub
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lications." (D + C 5/2002)
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This is a practical guide aimed at the managers of non-governmental and civil society organizations, primarily in developing countries, on how to mobilize funds and other resources for themselves and become financially self-reliant. The author examines all the options, showing how to identify fundin
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g opportunities and how to maximize fund-raising. He covers earned income, local foundations, governmental sources, foreign agencies, the corporate sector, micro-credit, the internet and social investments and sets these within a strategic overview of planning and management effectiveness.
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