North Shore Community and Social Services Community Resources
North Shore Community and Social Services (NSCSS) has a large selection of affordable, relevant and practical resources on a wide variety of topics, including funding.
The guides available from NSCSS include titles such as:
A Guide to: Developing A Fundraising Strategy - Looks at the basic principles of fundraising and how to develop a successful fundraising strategy. Covers grants, sponsorship, special events and donor development. It explores how the whole organisation can help support fundraising activities.
Demonstrating Your Success to Win Funding - The central theme of this guide is about putting effectiveness at the centre of service design - not just as an after-thought. Effectiveness in our community services context is largely about showing that you improved the lives of your clients. This guide puts a focus on being able to show funders that you are effective and therefore worth funding. It offers tools and thoughts about relationships with your funders, how to demonstrate that your service is effective, how to show that you deliver value for money and, how you can use this evidence as a marketing tool to build a stronger case for funding.
Preparing Funding Applications - A step by step guide to preparing funding applications using a team approach. Includes getting started, planning and costing your project, gathering the information, FAQ's, understanding funders requirements and preparing a well presented application.
Funding Series Fact Sheets - Ten Fact Sheets on all aspects of funding your organisation. Topics covered include preparing for funding, funding calendar and portfolio, marketing plan, legal issues, sponsorship, database management, accountability and monitoring.
For more information and how to order NSCSS resources visit: http://nscss.org.nz/publications/community-resources