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Meet Your Fundraising Needs with FDO as Your Partner
You need the best prospecting tool available, Foundation Directory Online is committed to meeting your needs as a fundraiser. Meet Your Fundraising Needs with FDO as Your Partner. Last year was a big year for FDO, we added nearly 70,000…
February 13, 2019
Corporate Relationships in Action: Unlocking Corporate Needs and Interests
We fell in love with our own organizational goals and desires and forgot to focus on the interests of the company in these corporate relationships.
January 23, 2019
Planned Giving Success: Strategies to Maximize Donor Gifts
There are simple steps even small, grassroots groups can take to encourage legacy gifts and planned giving success.
December 17, 2018
Expand Your International Nonprofit Organization’s Presence to Attract U.S. Funders
During my 10 years teaching and training nonprofits around the world, I have found that some of the biggest challenges they grapple with in seeking funding are related to differentiating themselves from the plethora of other great causes in the…
November 8, 2018
Partners in Philanthropy: How to Work with Donor-Advised Funds
Last year, Giving USA’s Annual Report called donor-advised funds (DAFs) one of the “hottest topics in the philanthropic community.”1 Between 2007 and 2016, assets in donor-advised funds nationwide skyrocketed from $32 billion to $85 billion,2 and this trend continues today. Who uses DAFs? How…
October 8, 2018
Explore New Funding Prospects with Recipient Profiles
Leverage Grant Recipient profiles: Discover new funding opportunities Help shape your prospecting strategy Quickly gain fundraising insights Recipient Profiles help you discover new prospects you may have missed in your grant search and help you understand how to approach funders.…
September 17, 2018
Turn Insights Into Action, Connect with Funders
Ready to take the next step in your grant search? Now that you’ve had some time to search for prospects and started building your prospect list, use these three steps to convert prospects and connect with funders. [Tip 1] Start with…
September 17, 2018
Make the Most of Your Grantmaker Results & FDO’s Latest Insights
We add nearly 100,000 new grants and RFPs weekly, so you can always have access to the latest grantmaker data and insights. Equipped with these insights, strengthen your proposals to make them most appealing to funders by learning from grantmaker…
September 17, 2018
Welcome to your handy FDO Guide
Here's a handy FDO guide to get you started. [Tip 1] Optimize Your Searches Using the Global Search Bar Search FDO as you would any search engine and get results specific to your grantseeking needs. Begin your search directly from…
September 17, 2018
5 Ways to Seek Corporate Giving
Corporate giving support nonprofits in a variety of different ways, FDO offers a window into many of them. The following are some of the more common means by which companies give.
September 10, 2018
The Board’s Role in Fundraising for Your Organization
Getting the board to fundraise can be a very challenging experience even when board members recognize that a primary responsibility of every nonprofit board is ensuring that the organization has the resources it needs to meet its mission. One of…
August 29, 2018
Key Steps to Fundraising Success
Did you know 90% of foundations don’t have websites? Foundation Directory Online gives you access to key information you need for fundraising success—find that funder today through FDO! You can search over 140,000 grantmakers and easily see how much support…
August 16, 2018