Since 2010, Hilborn Charity eNews and The Sponsorship Report have helped charities reorient their approach to corporate Canada with a unique program called Pay it Forward. Pay it Forward invites registered charities to apply for a bursary to Sponsorship Week which, this October, will offer a series of intensive workshops on the business of sponsorship program development and sales.
Summer is here, enjoy the sun and these five reflective reads. 
Identifying a bunch of new legacy donors does NOT mean that you must build a donor wall or start having quarterly legacy donor receptions. You don’t have to do any of that.
The Gala is the hospital's major fundraiser of the year. It is a lavish dinner-dance for two thousand of the city's established and upwardly mobile, and it raises over a million dollars for our medical research each year. It is organized by a committee of well-heeled volunteers, who have lots of extra time and opinions about everything from the shade of the napkins to the font on the table cards.
The truth is, if fundraising is going to succeed, it must be one of the top priorities of the organization, requiring the proper investment of time, money and other resources.
