Giving Tuesday is not simply a time to raise money. It is a splendid opportunity to educate your donors about how reasonable overhead spending is absolutely crucial to ensure that your charity’s programs create real positive change in your community.
Be sure to honour our fallen heroes this Remembrance Day by wearing a poppy and thanking the Veterans in our lives.
Encouraging board members to play a fundraising role is an uphill battle for charities of all types and sizes. The good news is that Giving Tuesday offers us a unique opportunity to increase our boards’ enthusiasm on all matters related to fundraising.
Since our goal with Funder Profiles is to keep you informed of Canada’s greatest change-making funding bodies, it’s prudent that we feature one of Canada’s largest, oldest and most progressive private foundations.
For the the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we recommend a few ways that non-Indigenous people can acknowledge the grave injustices committed against First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities, understand the complex systemic challenges they continue to face, and work towards building a brighter shared future.
To observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the focus of today’s Funder Profiles is the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund - an organization that “aims to build cultural understanding and create a path toward reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples”. We encourage everyone to support them and visit their website to explore different ReconciliACTIONs each of us can take to create positive change in Canada.
Proven Fundraising Strategies for Community and Grassroots Organizations
