Fetes offer many benefits to community organisations - if all goes well they can strengthen your donor base, energise your volunteers, publicise your organisation, and be a fun way for your group to connect with the local community, raising your profile and extending your reach.

This book is designed to help you run a successful fete with a minimum of fuss. Drawing on the experience of teachers, parents and fundraising experts, we've pulled together all of the tips and tools you'll need to pull off a fantastic event, including a fantastic set of templates on an included CD-ROM.

Topics covered in this book:

• Introduction
• Research
• Planning
• Committee
• Finances
• Risk Management
• Marketing
• Sponsorship & Donations
• Venue & Facilities
• Entertainment & Activities
• Stalls
• Catering
• Volunteers
• Celebrations
• Review

Well, not quite. Now the real work begins. You now have to learn how to manage, review and acquit your grant (not to mention run the project).

This guide is designed to take you beyond the adrenalin of finding out that you've won the grant and help walk you through the process that you'll need to undertake from here on in.

The guide includes a bonus CD including all of the templates you will need to successfully manage your grant.

Topics covered in this book:

• Introduction
• Negotiating the contract
• Developing and signing the contract
• Claiming and receiving payments
• Negotiating changes to the contract
• Monitoring performance
• Correcting performance issues
• Acquitting funds
• Assessing outputs and outcomes
• Evaluating the program
• Sharing lessons

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.

Topics covered in this book:

• The Our Community Fundraising Formula
• Laying the Foundations
• The First Pillar: Special Events
• The Second Pillar: Earned Income
• The Third Pillar: Grants
• The Fourth Pillar: Community-Business Partnerships
• The Fifth Pillar: Alumni / Friends
• The Sixth Pillar: Donations
• Post Script - Ask and Ye Shall Receive

The Complete Community Fundraising Handbook offers advice aimed at improving your community organisation's fundraising efforts and will allow you to take control of your fundraising activities. Learn practical strategies, tools and next steps to gain more money for your community organisation.

Topics covered in this book:

• The Our Community Fundraising Formula
• Laying the Foundations
• The First Pillar: Donations
• The Second Pillar: Grants
• The Third Pillar: Community-Business Partnerships
• The Fourth Pillar: Memberships/Alumni/Friends
• The Fifth Pillar: Special Events
• The Sixth Pillar: Earned Income

Winning Grants Funding in Australia - The Step by Step Guide looks at:

• Introduction to grantseeking in Australia
• What funding bodies want and need from community groups
• Finding a relevant grant for your group
• Writing a successful proposal
• Managing the relationship with the funding body

Topics covered in this book:

• Introduction
• Why bother applying for Grants?
• Introduction to Grantseeking
• What the grantseeker wants
• What the Grantmaker wants
• Finding a suitable grant for your group
• How to choose a suitable grant
• Writing a proposal - Style & Treatment
• Writing a proposal - The Contents
• The Final Checklist
• Twenty-One Ways Not to Get a Grant
• Aftercare
• Learning and trying again

Choose from the top 50 ways to raise up to $5000 quickly!

Includes plenty of tips and advice to boost your current fundraising initiatives as well as a chapter devoted to helping groups establish a balanced and integrated fundraising strategy and a valuable 101-point special events checklist.

The ideas in this Guide will take the time and worry out of fundraising!

Topics covered in this book:

• Introduction
• Elements to consider when deciding on fundraising ideas
• Legal requirements for fundraising
• 50 Bright ideas

This book will help step you through the process of scoping possible partnership targets, approaching a business, working with them, evaluating the results of your partnership and - finally - winding up or reinventing your partnership.

Topics covered in this book:

• Introduction
• What is a partnership?
• Are you ready?
• Finding the right partner
• Where to find a partner
• Make it very easy to say yes
• What to discuss before you commit
• Managing the relationship
• Communication
• Maintain the love
• Tell the world
• Celebrating the partnership
• Reviewing your partnership
• When things go wrong
• Juggling multiple partners
• Exit gracefully and graciously
• Celebrate the successes
• Ten reasons to celebrate success
• Reviewing your partnership

This special one-off publication is a 2013 fundraising planner that contains secrets, wisdom and best practice guides to help community groups and schools unearth stacks of money all year long.

This is every community group's must-have resource for fundraising in 2013

Key sections include:

• The Raising Funds Awards - the best and worst of 2012 in the world of fundraising. Find out who's been crowned 'campaign of the year'
• The Money Calendar - fundraising ideas to use throughout the year to ensure your group's coffers are always topped up
• The Fund Doctor - a six-point comprehensive health check to ensure your group is on track for a profitable year
• A surprise supplement - hidden within the sealed edition is a supplement that might as well just be a blank cheque
• What to do when your funding is cut - a guide to surviving and thriving following a funding cut - essential reading in the current economic climate
• The Fundraising Oracles - two industry 'oracles' let us know what the future of fundraising has in store
• And much, much more!