https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/ Are you trying to fundraise on a small budget? Get tools and tricks you can use to help make the most of your nonprofit dollars! Mazarine Treyz, author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising, will talk all about fundraising on a shoestring, from: How to get your printing costs down Getting volunteer help Low-cost/no-cost virtual help Finding grants (for free!) and more! And we’ll talk about a new fundraising resource!

1. Fundraising On A
Shoestring Budget
7/23/15
1pm Eastern
The presentation will begin shortly.

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Our guest presenter »
Mazarine Treyz
• Author of The Wild Woman’s Guide to
Fundraising
• Founder of WildWomanFundraising.com
• Co-founded a nonprofit and worked in
fundraising roles for 10 years.
• Regular contributor to Fundraising Success
Magazine/Nonprofit Pro, Nonprofit.About.com,
the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and other
publications.
• Has taught over 8,000 national and
international nonprofits how to fundraise since
2009.

5. Fundraising on a shoestring
Presenter: Mazarine Treyz
Author, The Wild Woman's Guide to Fundraising

6. About the presenter
Author of The Wild Woman's Guide to
Fundraising, and two five star rated
books on Nonprofit.About.com.
She co-founded a nonprofit called the
Moon Balloon Project in 2005, and has
fundraised for many small nonprofits.
Mazarine Treyz loves to help nonprofits
make fundraising fun and save money.

7. What are some of your issues with your fundraising budget?
a) What fundraising budget?
b) Not enough to do more than 1 appeal letter per year
c) Not enough to hire an assistant
d) Not enough to get a fundraising database
e) Other
Poll questions

8. What are you hoping to get out of
the webinar today?
a) New ways to save money in my
fundraising office
b) New ideas for getting
volunteers to do more fundraising
c) How to use virtual volunteers
d) All of the above
Poll question

9. What You'll Learn Today
1) Stop burning through your money-How to get
your printing costs down
2) Getting volunteer help
3) Low-cost/no-cost virtual help
4) Finding grants (for free!) and more!

10. POP QUIZ
Chart from GivingUSA 2015
What should
you be
focusing on?

11. How to WASTE fundraising money
First, make sure you
do at least four
events a year.
In fact, do as many
events as possible!

12. Don’t worry about who
you buy your list from!
Buy lots of lists! Don’t
ask any questions! Keep
mailing to these total
strangers!
How to WASTE fundraising money

13. Make sure that you pay
your fundraising staff little
enough so that you get
turnover every 10-18
months.
I mean, why invest in
fundraising staff? They’re
just gonna leave, RIGHT?
How to WASTE fundraising money

14. Don’t thank donors or
volunteers.
Don’t budget to do a
thank-a-thon or a
friendraiser.
Don’t worry, I mean, they
gave to you once, they’ll
give to you again, right?
How to WASTE fundraising money

15. Quiz: What is the Number 1 best way to
fundraise?
What gives you the maximum money out in the least time?
Direct Mail
Phone-a-thon
Personal Letter
Face to Face Ask
Personal Phone Call
Special Events
Grants

16. What is the Number 1 best way to fundraise?
What kinds of fundraising gives you the maximum return?
Least Time in -> Maximum money out
Strategy -> Response Rate
Face to Face Ask 50% rate of success
Personal Phone call 25%
Personal letter 10-15%
Phone-a-thon 5%
Direct Mail 1-3%
Special events (slowest,
most stupid way, expensive!)

17. How to get your printing costs down
How can you do this?
Have a preferred printer?
Ask for one printing free per
year, for being a good
customer.
Don't have a preferred
printer?
Ask Fancyhands.com to
research who the cheapest
printers are in your area.

18. How to get your printing
costs down
How can you do this?
Print a postcard instead of an
annual report.

19. How to get your printing costs down
Thinking about printing up
your annual report?
Consider that a corporation
may see this as an excellent
branding opportunity.
If you put their logo on the
back cover, could you get
your report printed for free?

20. Getting Volunteer Help
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Volunteermatch.org (US based)
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CreatetheGood.org (US based)
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Idealist.org (US based)
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Doit.org.uk (UK based)
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Volunteer.ca (Canada based)
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GoVolunteer.ca (Canada based)

21. Getting Virtual Volunteers to help you
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Grassroots.org (US based)
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GlobalGiving.org (US based)
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SkillsforChange.com (US based)
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Help from Home (UK based)
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KoodoNation (Canada based)

22. Getting Virtual Volunteers to help you
Read Jayne Cravens Last
Virtual Volunteer Guide

23. Getting Virtual Volunteers to help you
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Make it funny,
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Make it specific,
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Make it manageable.
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It’s important to always be gracious
and say thank you and give awards.

24. Finding Grants for Free
Grantspace and Foundation
Center have teamed up to
provide grant research for free
http://grantspace.org/find-us
Good for the US, Canada,
Mexico, UK, Australia, and a
number of other countries.

25. Poll question
Which ways do you try to save
money now?
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Do direct mail appeals in-
house
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Do as few events as possible
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Don’t pay for grants database
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Focus on major gifts
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Forget fundraising, I'm
digging for pirate treasure!

26. YOUR TURN!
Do you have any advice for saving
money you would like to share?
Feel free to share one of
your money-saving tactics
in the chat!
We will read them out loud
and everyone can learn
from you!

27. Putting it into practice NOW
1. What have you committed to
doing?
2. What are some new things
you could try?
3. Start with ...

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You will learn:
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Keys to incredible ways to speak and
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Just go to
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find-new-donors
And get your free week of my e-course,
now!

29. Q&A
Thank you for coming today!
I love to help you with fundraising!
Let’s chat!
info@wildwomanfundraising.com
Just go to
http://wildwomanfundraising.com/store/
find-new-donors
And get your free week of my e-course,
now!

30. Questions?

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