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When the Southeast Texas Food Bank was incorporated in 1991, it did no fundraising whatsoever, it had two donor names (the executive director and a board member) and its budget was around $700,000. Today, it has 25,000 donor names in its database and an operating budget of $1.9 million.

One of the most lucrative methods of fundraising is through printed materials such as calendars, posters, catalogs and greeting cards. With a minimal investment these items can generate thousands in fundraising revenue, but they have to be done right.

2010 Nonprofit Consultant of the Year Lori Van Dusen passes along some of her advice to fundraisers.

Fundraising pros Dane Grams and Richard DeVeau offer some general tips for small and midsized nonprofit organizations.

Our annual Fundraising Resource Guide is meant specifically to help you find those companies, products and services that will best suit your needs. It's a comprehensive compilation of hundreds of companies that you can keep on hand all year long.

Fundraising is all just common sense, but common sense very often starts out as anything but.

DENVER, November 19, 2009 — Ping Identity® today announced it has joined the Salesforce.com Foundation’s Power of Us Partner Program. The Salesforce.com Foundation’s philanthropic program provides Ping Identity with an easy way to make high impact contributions to nonprofit and educational communities through donations of time, equity, and discounted products.

Columbia, Md., November 12, 2009 — Merkle (www.merkleinc.com), one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing customer relationship marketing agencies, today announced the formation of its new Market Research Practice, which will provide new insights into client marketing programs by discovering and understanding how consumer beliefs and attitudes shape purchasing and engagement decisions. The new practice is part of Merkle’s Quantitative Solutions Group, which provides leading organizations with analytical insight and strategy to drive highly targeted and measurable marketing programs.

OMAHA, Neb., October 26, 2009 — infoGROUP (NASDAQ: IUSA), the leading provider of data driven and interactive resources for targeted sales, marketing and research solutions today announced it is leveraging the Company`s knowledge and expertise in the nonprofit arena by combining May Development Services and Triplex to create infoGROUP Nonprofit.

RENO, Nev., October 22, 2009 — President Barack Obama issued a challenge … asking all Americans to volunteer, to pitch in and to give back. Corporations also need to answer this call to action and provide their services pro bono to nonprofit organizations. DM Productions LLC and our team of professionals are doing this and joining the A Billion + Change campaign by providing our expertise and up to $50,000 in professional services pro bono to one nonprofit organization through our annual DM Productions Nonprofit Grant.