Walking Advocates

Thriving and Growing

Organizations have life cycles, and they certainly go through growing pains. In this section are some pointers about how to deal with “midlife crisis”, how to raise money and how to expand the power and diversity of your group.

Thriving and Growing (pdf)

Contents:

Coalitions in midlife crisis

Fundraising

Sample product (WalkBoston)

Sample fundraising letter (WPC)

Proposal checklist and evaluation form

Writing grants

Sample grant package

Power and diversity

Fund-raising links

Fundraising presentation (59 pages) from the Network for Good Learning Center. This presentation provides a lot of helpful information regarding website design, email marketing and social networking. It is up-to-date and very relevant to non-profits at many different development levels.