Grassroots

Years ago, I was a boy scout in Charleston, W.Va., for a relatively short period of time. I enjoyed the experience but was faced with the dilemma of either continuing in scouting or playing little league baseball. I must say that baseball won the day but the positive memory of my scouting experience has stayed with me through the years...

They say when life gives you history, you make history-ade. Or something. That's what Gabe Fulmerhouser did, anyway. In need of a summer hobby, the enterprising 8-year-old from Jackson, Mich., decided he'd dispense history lessons at a roadside stand for 25 cents a pop, with all proceeds going to charity, naturally. He's raised $140.25 so far, and rather than buying a World of Warcraft subscription and some Mountain Dew, like most kids would, he plans to donate it...

The 2016 presidential election cycle, with its parade of minor candidates, makes it easy to forget that grassroots fundraising isn't limited to the campaign trail. If Ted Cruz can raise $14 million in three months of grassroots fundraising, imagine what nonprofits can do over the course of a year or more. Here's how one nonprofit raised $15 million, almost entirely in grassroots fashion...

Bryan Ware stood in his kitchen on a weekday morning with his wife, dad and a close friend. There was a white drop cloth draped on the counter, two steaming metal pots on the stove and orange buckets—one full of ice and the other brimming with water—attached to a 96-hole metal mold that resembled a…

Given the many issues facing nonprofits today, and the people they serve, it is more important than ever to get involved in the public

In an exciting, two-part webinar series FundRaising Success is hosting in partnership with Blackbaud and Charity Dynamics, the ALS Association is providing an exclusive, inside look at what happened this summer and what has happened since the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Join FundRaising Success in Washington, D.C., next week for our inaugural peer-to-peer conference, Engage P2P: Redefining Peer to Peer.

FundHub's Kevin Harrington, one of the original "Shark" investors on television's "Shark Tank" will give the keynote address at GCCB2014, (The Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp) on Friday, October 24, 2014 in Las Vegas.

Part of the power of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is that it relies on specific, one-on-one invitations to participate.

Are you ready for grassroots fundraising? Here are some key tenets to live by for grassroots organizations.