Knock Your Third Party Fundraiser Out of the Park | npENGAGE

Knock Your Third Party Fundraiser Out of the Park | npENGAGE: Baseball season is in full swing this time of year and so are multitudes of fundraising events. Alongside the rides, walks and runs, many organizations are utilizing Third Party or Independent Fundraising Events (IFE) to raise money for specific campaigns. But just because you’ve built this beautiful fundraising website, doesn’t mean the fundraisers or donors will show up to the game. For a big win, it is important to plan ahead and organize your supporters to kick off your campaign to a great start.

Below are a few tips to help you conduct your peer-to-peer fundraising event strategy as if you were in spring training.

Third-party fundraising, boon or bust?

Third-party fundraising, boon or bust?: "Third-party fundraising, boon or bust?
Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf
November 29, 2010

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On Sept. 22 of this year, the CBC produced an investigative report examining the nature of fundraising in the Canadian charitable sector and looking specifically at where donor dollars go. The story was also filed on their website here. On the whole, the CBC presented what many in the sector viewed as a sensationalized story that made it seem fraudulent, or at the very best, grossly mismanaged fundraising by charities was rampant across the nation.

Now that some water has passed under that particular bridge, there's been some sober reflection on the good that actually came out of the report and how third-party fundraising techniques aren't necessarily the evil incarnate that some would make them out to be."