Good news on Trust funding — but is it the whole story?
Positive headlines about trust funding growth are welcome — but they can mask very different realities for individual fundraisers. Stacey Teece looks at what the data actually means for your cause area, and why digging deeper into the numbers matters.
How to Find the Right Trust Funders: A Prospect Research Guide
Finding the right trust funders for your charity starts with asking the right questions — before you search a single database. Beth Upton walks through the six questions to ask first, and a curated list of free and low-cost research tools that trust fundraisers actually use.
Trust Fundraising Myths Debunked
We speak to charities every day about fundraising from trusts & foundations. There are some key themes that emerge time and again – misunderstandings about grant-makers, their purpose, their requirements – and we want to set the record straight by airing these trust fundraising myths and explaining the truth instead.