Fundraising Committee Reports

Kate Bess is the chair of the fundraising committee.

SCRID

July 31, 2010

Fundraising Report

Kate Bess

Current Endeavors

  • Research efforts taking advantage of the vast resources on the internet.

-Association of Fundraising professionals, afpnet.org

-Stepbystepfundraising.com

-The National Council of Nonprofit Association, NCNA, councilofnonprofits.org

-Nonprofit Donor Database, nozasearch.com

-California Association of Nonprofits, canonprofits.org

-fundraiserhelp.com, for nonprofits

  • Reading blogs of current endeavors of other nonprofit leaders posting on the sites listed above.
  • Grant writing research

-ca.gov/grants

-Santa Monica Public Library Database, smpl.org/websource/Grants/nonprofit.htm

  • Finding corporations and businesses such as Target and Macys whose goals of community giving match the goals of SCRID.
  • Developed and continuing to develop a variety of letters and emails to send to these companies.