A. Donors are not easy to come by but there are some ways to find people that would be interested in your cause enough to help support it.

• ask your donors if they know of 5 people you could talk to
• start with members who avail themselves of your services but do not yet provide voluntary philanthropic support
• capture information from visitors to your web site
• place donation buttons on every page of your web site
• have a forward this page to a friend buttons on your website and email solicitations
• rent/exchange mailing lists/email lists from partners or similar organizations
• make every effort to renew past donors, especially those who have skipped giving to you for a while it is easier, and far less costly, to renew a donor than to find a new one
• use prospect research to determine who is already involved in your organization but has potential to increase their gift size
• call Mersky, Jaffe & Associates and ask for specific advice