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The top barriers to achieving organizational goals and objectives identified in Maximizing Effectiveness are funding and funding-related issues. Fifty-seven percent of respondents specifically named lack of funds, and core funding in particular, as one of their top three barriers. When funding-related issues were added (e.g., lack of a professional fundraiser, no time to collaborate and network because of time required to fundraise), this total rose to 68%
Below are a few tools and resources to help assess the effectiveness of your fund development strategy and identify a few fundraising resources.
Capacity Check List
To assess your organization's capacity as it relates to effective and strategic fund development, download the attached checklist in MSWord format.
Links to Fund Development Resources
Alberta Association of Fund Raising Executives (AAFRE) - http://www.aafre.org
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) - http://www.afpnet.org/
Alberta Government Services - http://www3.gov.ab.ca/gs/pdf/charities.pdf
Big Database - http://www.bigdatabase.ca
Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations - http://www.calgarycvo.org/
Canada Revenue Agency - http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tax/charities/menu-e.html
CanadaHelps - http://www.canadahelps.org
Canadian Association of Gift Planners - http://www.cagp-acpdp.org
Canadian Book of Charities -http://www.canadian-charities.com
Canadian Donor’s Guide - http://www.donorsguide.ca
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers' Network - http://www.cegn.org/
Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) - http://www.cfre.org
Charity Village - http://www.charityvillage.com
Edmonton Chamber of Voluntary Organizations - http://www.ecvo.ca/
Environment Canada - The Green Lane -
Grant Macewan College http://business.macewan.ca/gmcc/vsm/home/index.cfm
Imagine Canada - http://www.imaginecanada.ca/
Leave a Legacy - http://www.leavealegacy.org
Mount Royal College - http://www.mtroyal.ab.ca/conted/programs/nonprofman.shtml
Voluntary Sector Initiative - http://www.vsi-isbc.ca/eng/index.cfm
Volunteer Alberta - http://www.volunteeralberta.ab.ca/
Free books and resources written by Ken Wyman
Online e-Giving:
GreenAbility.org
CanadaHelps.org
Environmental Grantmakers:
Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network
Giving Statistics and Fact Sheets:
Fact Sheets
Volunteers and Giving Reports
Useful Guides:
Understanding Canadian Donors
Financial Support to Environmental Groups
Alberta Ecotrust values the contribution of our environmental partners and to say thank you, we offered one of them the opportunity to send one staff member or volunteer to the Western Canadian Fundraising Conference "Learning & Career Advancement" (May 9-13, 2005) in Calgary presented by AFP Calgary Chapter, AFP Edmonton and AAFRE. The conference provided a great opportunity to learn about upcoming trends in philanthropy, network with other fundraisers and expand existing knowledge of fund development strategies, board governance and volunteer resource management. In order to build capacity amongst the environmental community in general, we also offered one representative from an Alberta-based environmental non-government organization the opportunity to win free conference registration as well.
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