Securing the resources to do your important work shouldn’t feel overwhelming or out of reach. We created these fundraising resources to support nonprofit leaders who need sustainable funding to fulfill their missions.
These practical tools, guides, and insights will help build confidence, clarity, and momentum in your fundraising. Whether you’re strengthening donor relationships, planning for long-term sustainability, or navigating new fundraising approaches, these resources will meet you where you are. Our goal is simple: to help you secure the funding you need so your organization can focus on what matter most—advancing your mission, caring for your people, and creating lasting impact.
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Fundraising Plan Template & Sample
A useful tool to track fundraising strategies, goals, action steps, and costs associated with fundraising plans.
Fundraising Benchmark Tracker
Our Fundraising Benchmark Tracker is a tool for nonprofits to monitor and analyze their fundraising performance. With sections for key metrics like donor acquisition, retention, monthly giving, and online giving,…
Revenue Forecasting Tool
TREC’s Revenue Forecasting Tool walks you through three methods described in TREC’s Revenue Forecasting resource to help you hypothesize on future revenue.
Building Fundraising Success into Your Planning Process
Money doesn’t grow on trees (unfortunately). Securing the funding needed to advance conservation work requires good planning and diligent follow through. Join TREC Senior Associate Elizabeth Hospodarsky Stanley as we explore ways to raise more money, more reliably, year after year.
Fundraising Planning: Preparing for a Busy Year by Planning Ahead
The fundraising planning process begins with a broad road map for the year that lays out exactly where you must end up. Key points to consider are revenues generated from each fundraising activity; and how much time will be necessary to accomplish each objective.
Optimizing Fundraising on Your Nonprofit Website
This guide outlines practical steps and best practices to optimize your nonprofit website for fundraising, building trust, and deepening donor engagement.
Growing Monthly Giving
Monthly giving programs are a WIN – WIN – WIN! Beneficial to your donors, making giving easier and bringing them in closer to your mission. Beneficial to your organization, ensuring monthly unrestricted gifts you can count on. Beneficial for you, allowing you to spend more time on other fundraising efforts while the monthly gifts roll in without too much effort. Explore the value of monthly donors and learn how to grow a program in your organization.
Major Gifts Planning
In this tutorial TREC Senior Associate, Ellie Stanley, reviews how to make your major gifts program a success through the important first step, planning. This tutorial will walk you through how to create a well-thought out plan with projections to help define your goal and make it easy to reach.
Launching into Legacy Giving
This webinar will show you that legacy giving doesn’t need to be complicated and can be worthwhile and achievable for any organization. And you’ll leave with real, actionable steps you can take to immediately grow a planned giving program at your organization.
Achieving Major Wins with Major Gifts and Major Donors
Major Gifts are likely to be some of the largest gifts you receive outside of grants. So what is a Major Gift? And how does major donor cultivation and solicitation differ from smaller individual gifts? Join us as we answer these questions and outline the 5-steps you can take to developing a successful major gifts program.
Featured Collections
Fundraising Planning
This collection will help you get started with a fundraising plan, revenue forecasting, budgeting, and more.
Fundraising Strategies
This collection shares strategies for fundraising including monthly giving, engaging mid-level donors & volunteers, and ways to optimize your non-profit website.
Major and Legacy Gifts
This collection focuses on major and legacy gifts, identifying and cultivating donors, and making asks.
Fundraising Appeals
This collection will walk you through the steps of writing effective appeals. There is even a sample appeal letter to get you started.
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Board Fundraising
Board Fundraising
This collection shares tools and strategies to engage your board of directors in donor stewardship and fundraising.
Board and Staff Friendraising Process
The flow chart in this resource shows how a Board member can meaningfully contribute to building your organization’s “friend” base, leading to more supporters while increasing connection between your Board and Staff through their Friendraising work.
Board-Donor Stewardship Flow of Communications
Major gift work is a highly personalized form of fundraising that can be difficult to systematize. The success of your major gifts effort is dependent on authentic relationships with your donors, and it’s difficult to script the authentic conversations that make up a real relationships. The following flow chart and corresponding scripts are a great place to start.
Fundraising Committee Roles and Responsibilities | Sample
Whether you are a one-person development shop or serving as part of a larger fundraising team, a fundraising committee should be an integral part of your fundraising program. An effective fundraising committee is vital to the life and financial well-being of your organization. The following document provides some sample roles and responsibilities to get you started.
Fundraising Events
Fundraising Events
This collection provides guidance and considerations for successful fundraising events – both virtual and in person.
Accessible and Inclusive Events
How can we be mindful of different needs while proactively providing a welcoming and inclusive experience for all at events? Accessibility and inclusion matter just as deeply in temporary spaces where we invite community to join together for dialogue or learning. Here are some considerations to provide a more inclusive and accessible experience to your audience as you go through the event planning process.
Top 8 Things to Winning Virtual Events
Virtual events will be with us for the long haul, and it’s critical to do them soon, well, and professionally. Do Good Events’ Marika Holmgren, CEO and Founder, and Stephanie Alston, Lead Producer, will join their partner and client, Yanira Castro, Communications Director with Outdoor Afro to share practical skills and tools, including the why, the how, the how much, and the when, of virtual events.
House Party Guidance for Hosts & Staff
House parties can be powerful fundraising tools for connection and cultivation when done right. This resource has tips and a checklist to make your house party more successful and memorable.
Grants
Grants
This collection shares how to get the most out of your grants. As many non-profits are entirely grant-dependent, the research, writing, and format of your grants is a key piece of ensuring enough revenue to fuel your mission.
Getting the Most Out of Your Grants
Since many organizations are grant dependent, meaning they rely upon grants for a large percentage of their revenue, it’s essential that these grants be formed in such a way that they sustain the organization overall. This short tutorial covers how to calculate and include the full costs of your programs into your grant budgets.
Grassroots Grants I: Thinking and Research
This special two-part webinar on grant fundraising with Andy Robinson, author and consultant will focus on Grant Thinking and Research, such as the pros and cons of chasing grants, how grants fit into a complete fundraising strategy, designing fundable projects, and grants research: how to find the money
Grassroots Grants II: Relationships & Writing
This special two-part webinar on grant fundraising with Andy Robinson, author and consultant will focus on Relationship Building and Grant Writing, including developing relationships with funders and building your proposal
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