Sponsors and Strategic Partners

Sponsors and Strategic Partners

SupportingAdvancement.com periodically secures sponsors to help offset the cost of paying for and growing the site.

Maintaining this site is a "labor of love", requiring not only a dedicated level of commitment of time and energy, but also an increasing financial one in order to host the site with all of the content and traffic that both continue to grow very quickly.

We thank our sponsors for their commitment, and hope that the products and services they provide will be of value to visitors to this site.

AFI is a partner, plain and simple.

Along with past consulting experience, AFI has established a solid foundation for what we aspire, creating a rich resource community for annual giving professionals.

In addition to consulting, Annual Fund Inc. also provides a variety of services to annual giving professionals including: Marketing Design and Matching Gift Resources.

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Tomorrow's Strategies Today

Since 1991, the Canadian FundRaiser™ newsletter has been updating nonprofit managers twice-monthly on news, trends, tips and analysis of developments in the fields of fundraising and nonprofit management.

Our service, originally simply a twice-monthly newsletter, has expanded over the years to include workshops, books, back-issue search and Special Advisories for our member/subscribers. And the complete package is now the Canadian FundRaiser™ Nonprofit Sector Management Information Service.

Current Members can search back issues here, renew their Membership, or correct their address information in our secure files.

Through the generous support of a number of Supporting Sponsors, at the head of them our Lead Sponsor, UNxVision Internet Fundraising Solutions, we have avoided price increases for many years, and been able to provide some services at no cost.

Please take a look at the current issue of Canadian FundRaiser™ eNews, and if you haven’t done so already, sign up at no cost to receive future issues. Visit our Key-To-The-Sector Workshop Centre. Ask about Advertising & Sponsorship opportunities. Or send us an article suggestion. We’re waiting to hear from you.

Board Management. Meetings are expensive and should be managed effectively.
Board Staff Alignments - Comparing Three Different Approaches.
Branding Your Organization for Sustained Growth.
Building a Web Site.
Common Cause. Nonprofits and negotiating with trade unions.
Create Suspense in Your Direct Mail.
Enewsletters - Challenge - get those e-newsletters open ... just like snail mail.
Enewsletters - Choosing the right distribution system.
Enewsletters - Readers must want to look at it as well as read it.
Engaging Youngest Adults
Engagement Used to Set Marketing Budgets
Envelope Tricks that Turn Recipients Off, Lose Donations
Five Guaranteed Ideas for Managing Your Apathetic Board
Fundraising Mailing Lists: How List Brokers Can Help
Fundraising Widgits
Getting Better, Not Older: Boomers Redefine Middle Age
Giving Circles
Interim Director: Place Holder or Catalyst for Change?
Make Your Appeal Letters More Personal With the Best Date Format

National Online Portal

Online Fundraising, 2

Planning is the Operative Word

Right vs. Right

Success Planning - Don't Wait Till Disaster Strikes

The Tenuous Link Between Wealth and Charity

Training and Development

Understanding the Affluence of Women

Volunteer Management

We're Noble, Not Hucksters - But We Still Must Market

Winning Googlers'

Yes, you can get prospect information for free - on the Net

Your Marketing Mix Needs a Web Site These Days

Click & Pledge, a proven leader in the field of on-line transactions and e-commerce, serves over 2,000 non-profits throughout North America and beyond.

This “turn-key” e-commerce tool utilizes the latest technology to strategically leverage on-line giving. Known for their breadth and level of service, Click & Pledge are a trusted partner and resource.

With Click & Pledge organizations can:

Accept donations and pledges for multiple items
Register and pay for events and conferences
Manage membership dues and fees online
Accept automatic recurring monthly donations

Online payments are made easy via:

A simple 5 minute setup process
Free setup with no obligations – clients can cancel anytime
Automatically handle premiums, tax receipts and recurring donations

Email newsletters with integrated donations thru:

A flexible email newsletter with donation opportunities, to keep clients in touch with members, customers, and constituents.
An easy to use system that allows clients to add content, target groups, schedule deliveries & more.

For information on Click & Pledge, please contact: Jim.Barney@clickandpledge.com, 866-999-2542

The Pursuant Group™ serves over sixty (60) clients in the higher education, fraternal foundation and non-profit sectors.

The Pursuant Group™ offers strategic, creative and technical services to fundraising professionals who desire to utilize the Internet as a relationship fundraising channel.

The Pursuant Group™ specializes in eSolicitations that engage new and younger donors as well as comprehensive major gift campaigns.

The Pursuant Group™ also provides online educational Webinars, conference speaking and seminar intensives.

For more information about online donor campaigns or best practices in online relationship fundraising, please call (972) 244-0432 or visit www.pursuantgroup.com.

Walter Hearn Associates is a full service design and marketing firm that specializes in higher education.

With clients that include Johns Hopkins University, University of Connecticut, Old Dominion University, Virginia Tech and more, Walter Hearn Associates offers quality service, innovative design and reasonable price point to garner the results you desire.

For more information or to view a sample portfolio, please visit www.whearn.com.