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Uncorking the Success to Fundraising with Wine

Greater Giving

Whether you are focusing an entire event around wine, or looking to include a few fun wine-themed elements in your already successful fundraiser, there is an exact science to both creating the perfect bottle, and to using this expertly-crafted beverage to raise funds that support your mission. Are you hoping to develop a new audience?

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Tour-de-France (July). It’s not summer without the Tour-de-France in July (or get a head-start with World Bicycle Day on June 3). Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Bike-a-Thon.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Search for experiences in countries known for their cuisine, like Italy, France, China, and Mexico. That’s why it’s essential to have the right fundraising software by your side to stay organized and reach your funding goals. Here are a few creative packages and basket ideas to wow attendees.

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A Tribute To Simone Joyaux

Bloomerang

Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. Then came our family trip to France, more specifically to Simone’s region of France. She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

Have Fun - Do Good

I went to France. My great-grandparents were dairymen and dairywomen, so I went to France, and I dabbled a little bit in cheese making. That was really driven home when I was at this small farm in the south of France. Everywhere I go and talk about the book, it's so fun to meet a new community of food producers.

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Giving Circle Book Group: Books by Women Visionaries and Their Organizations

Have Fun - Do Good

Murray founded the Global Fund for Women. Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe. Mother and daughter founded the Small Planet Fund to support the citizen-led solutions that they document in their book. Paradigm Found: Leading and Managing for Positive Change by Anne Firth Murray.

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Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006

Have Fun - Do Good

Whether you are starting your own nonprofit, or simply interested in how a person can take a seed of an idea for positive change and make it into reality, you'll find some nuggets of wisdom in this book from the founder of the Global Fund for Women who wrote, "Believing that social change is possible is the beginning.