No major donor fundraiser is an island – save our clods!
Money Tree Fundraising article on ensuring that your major donor fundraiser is not an island.
Key Indicators of Success for a Capital Appeal
Capital appeals aren’t easy, read this blog from Money Tree Fundraising to find out the key indicators of success for a capital appeal.
Addressing the diversity deficit in charity leadership
Money Tree Fundraising CEO Beth Upton shares how she will be honoring her pledge to the ACEVO/Institute of Fundraising diversity principles.
How you can judge a major donor programme by a cup of tea
As a high value fundraising consultant I get to meet a lot of great fundraisers and a few not so good if the truth be told. Over the years I've got better at assessing early on whether a major donor programme is likely to be successful. I always keep an...
Top Tips for remote working
Money Tree Fundraising is an entirely remote company. Whenever I get a sales call asking to speak to our estates manager, person who manages the company’s utility bills or similar I tell the caller this and I am often met with stunned silence and some...
Sample and Template Policies for Third Sector Organisations
Needing to create or improve your organisation’s policies and governance for your fundraising toolkit? Have a look at these free resources, samples and templates on the internet. You WILL need to adapt and edit templates to make them appropriate for your...
A Tale of Two Hospices
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity” So runs Dicken’s famous opening line of a Tale of Two Cities. Belief followed by...
Thriving as a remote worker
Before setting up Money Tree Fundraising in 2010 I had a “proper” job as a Fundraising Director and worked from home a day or two each week, so had some sense of what remote working took. Today Money Tree Fundraising is proud to be an entirely remote...
#MoneyTreeTakeOuts – Major Donor Conference 2020
The 2020 Institute of Fundraising Major Donor Conference was brilliant, with plenty of interesting and knowledgeable speakers and lots to learn, all day. There was a lot of tweeting of information and knowledge using #IoFMajorDonor or #IoFMajorDonors - so...
Interview with… Andrew Mangeot
How did you get into fundraising? By chance. Over twenty years ago I saw an ad in the paper saying: “Would suit a graduate seeking a career change”. It turned out to be a disability charity looking to train up someone with transferable skills to be a...