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Guide to Rural Fundraising

Document Author: National CASA staff
Date Posted: 1/06

We are pleased to announce the new guide Rural Fundraising: Success Stories for CASA/GAL Programs. The National CASA Association commissioned Kim Klein, the nation’s premiere grassroots fundraising authority, to develop this anthology of successful strategies.

This guide describes successful and easy-to-imitate fundraising strategies. An introductory essay by Kim Klein titled “Raising Money in Rural Communities” describes basic principles of rural fundraising. The second part of the manual contains 15 examples of successful strategies, from direct mail to events to earned income. Each example is described in some detail, and most are accompanied by sample materials. While the majority of the examples are not from CASA/GAL programs, they can easily be easily adapted for your use.

The collection ends with a blank template for you to fill in and submit whenever you use a fundraising strategy from which you think others could learn. This guide will grow and become more valuable as we collect your ideas and distribute them in future updates.

You may download PDFs of the complete guide or specific sections at the links below:

Complete Guide (2.3 MB PDF)

Introductory Pages (153 KB PDF)
Kim Klein Essay (86 KB PDF)
Fundraising Strategies 1-4 (684 KB PDF)
Fundraising Strategies 5-6 (1 MB PDF)
Fundraising Strategies 7-11 (272 KB PDF)
Fundraising Strategies 12-15 (423 KB PDF)
Template for New Ideas (39 KB PDF)

 

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