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WEB-WISE FUNDRAISING
| Paul Ventura
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The Vermont Community Foundation
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Article on Web-Wise Fundraising (updated).
The following sites on the World Wide Web are recommended for learning more about how the Internet is being used to communicate with donors, identify grant opportunities, provide fundraisers with news about their profession and, in general, assist the fundraising efforts of organizations like yours.
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS:
FOUNDATIONS:
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/OTHER:
In addition to the Web sites listed above are countless others that could be beneficial to the specific work of not-for-profit agencies. To find these sites, a good practice is to search for topics using what are called Web "search engines." These are specialized databases that store the addresses (or URLs--Uniform Resource Locators) of web pages that may hold information on those topics. There are dozens of such search engines and directories, and they all work pretty much the same way: you type in one or more keywords pertaining to your topic, the search engine whirrs for a few seconds seeking matches in its files, and then spews forth a list of possible sites for you to view. It's a good idea to be fairly specific in your search, as you might get a list of hundreds of sites (there are already hundreds of thousands of web sites with hundreds more each day). On the other hand, being too specific may turn up nothing. It's a case for experimenting with different search engines, as they all have strengths and limits.
Perhaps the most comprehensive search engine is Digital's Alta Vista. You can search the web and newsgroups using Alta Vista right from this page.
Or you can use the Yahoo! directory of web sites to search on a keyword(s):
http://www.sover.net/~paulven/workshop/funds.html
updated July 27, 1997
Copyright © 1997 Paul G. Ventura.
