In this article, we explain how you can get funding for your activist campaigns or non-profit cause. We talk about various means of getting money. The also discuss how to make budgets for your projects.
There are a lot of ways for activists to raise funds. Whether it's through online crowdfunding platforms, asking for donations, finding sponsors, or applying for grants from charitable foundations, there are many options available. We wrote detailed guides that discuss grant-writing and donor cultivation, and many other topics:
- 💰 Grants
- 🙌 Crowdfunding
- ❤️ Donations
- 💶 Sponsorship
¶ Managing funds
In this section, we have listed a few guides that discuss how to manage your funds in an effective and transparent way. This includes applying for a legal non-profit status, making budgets and being transparent about where the money is going.
- Legal nonprofit status
- Budgetting
- Reporting & transparency
¶ How to contribute
This article still needs quite a bit of work. Here are some examples of how it could be improved:
- Add section describing different types of funding (crowdsourcing, project-based grants, operational grants, etc). Maybe create sub-pages, with more info on each (eg. one how to write project proposals for grants).
- Add more organisations to list of funding sources.
- Add a section about local opportunities to apply for funding (maybe split up into sub-pages, one for each country?)
¶ What are people looking up?
| Searches | Frequency | Relevancy | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| crowdfunding | 315.1K | medium | 100% |
| fundraising | 116.3K | medium | 100% |
| grassroots fundraising | 510 | high | 70% |
| nonprofit grants | 7.4K | medium | 70% |
| grant writing for nonprofits | 1.4K | high | 50% |
| free grant writing classes for nonprofit | 110 | medium | 45% |
| protest funds | 10 | high | 0% |
| who is funding the protesters | 140 | low | 70% |
| how to get donations for nonprofit | 580 | high | 77% |
| donations nonprofit | 5.5K | low | 73% |
| nonprofit fundraising donation request letter | 320 | medium | 76% |
| how to raise funds for a nonprofit | 760 | high | 63% |
| fundraising guide | 230 | medium | 0% |
| crowdfunding guide | 1.2K | medium | 0% |
| sponsorship nonprofit | 220 | medium | 0% |
¶ External resources
- Fundraising is Awesome
- Collection: Getting Grants and Financial Resources by Community Tool Box
- Collection: Managing Finances by Community Tool Box
- Collection: Investing in Community Resources by Community Tool Box
- Applying for Grants by Community Tool Box
- Move The Money, Practices and Values for Funding Social Movements Building Movement Project
- Funding Centre (AU)
¶ Sustaining initiative long-term
- Strategies for the Long-Term Sustainability of an Initiative: An Overview
- Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative
- Promoting Adoption of the Initiative's Mission and Objectives
- Attracting Support for Specific Programs
- Marketing the Initiative to Secure Financial Support
- Sharing Positions and Other Resources
- Becoming a Line Item in an Existing Budget
- Incorporating Activities/Services in Organizations with a Similar Mission
- Obtaining Corporate Resources
- Tapping into Existing Personnel Resources
- Soliciting Contributions and In-kind Support
- Designing and Implementing a Fundraiser
- Pursuing Third Party Funding
- Developing a Fee-for-Services Structure
- Acquiring Public Funding
- Securing Endowments and Planned Giving Arrangements
- Establishing and Maintaining a Membership Program
- Developing and Marketing Products
- Academic: Sustaining the Work