The Complete Schools Fundraising Handbook - How to make the most money ever for your school, pre-school or kindergarten

The Complete Schools Fundraising Handbook takes readers through the Six Pillars of Raising Funds - donations; grants; community-business partnerships; alumni; special events; and earned income - showing how each and every one of them can be used to bring in valuable funds.

The Our Community Fundraising Formula
Laying the Foundations
- Recognising your assets
- The Fundraising Committee
- The Fundraising Action Plan
- Volunteers
- The Marketing Plan
- Fundraising ethics
- The database
- Building relationships
- Learning to sell yourself
The First Pillar: Special Events
- Are you really ready for a special event?
- The importance of budgeting
- Planning for risk
- Building on your event
- Marketing your special event
- Money for nothing
- Joining and piggybacking
The Second Pillar: Earned Income
- Charging for what you have
- Selling your services - "affinity marketing"
- Sales to the public
The Third Pillar: Grants
- Finding the right grant
- Which one do I go for?
- Writing a winning application
- Reporting
- Maintaining the relationship
The Fourth Pillar: Community-Business Partnerships
- CSR and CRM
- Finding a partnership
- Narrowing down the list
- Making the approach
- Starting the partnership
- Building on your partnership
- Partnership checklist
The Fifth Pillar: Alumni / Friends
- Who are your alumni?
- Why keep in touch?
- Getting started
- Finding your alumni
- How to maintain the database
- How to engage your alumni community
- Alumni communities in action
The Sixth Pillar: Donations
- Major gifts
- Direct appeals
- Online donations
- Planned giving
- Bequests
- One-off donations
- Saying thanks
Post Script - Ask and Ye Shall Receive