To help you fill the gaps in your knowledge, or level up in your career to study for and pass the CFRE.
A donor supports a project but states that the requested amount is beyond their means this year. The BEST response is to:
(Question from Domain 2: Securing the Gift of the CFRE exam)
Pick an answer to see whether you are right and why.
An organization raised the same total three years running, but its number of donors fell from 900 to 480 over that period. What does this most likely indicate?
(Question from Fundraising 101: Fundraising Strategy)
Pick an answer to see whether you are right and why.
A beginner's guide for anyone new to fundraising, or doing it already and never taught. Sixteen modules in the order the work happens: the vocabulary, reading your own numbers, a strategy, the case for support, events and prospecting, then asking, from the smallest gift to the largest, plus foundations and corporates. It finishes with the parts nobody teaches you: working with your finance office, what the law requires when a gift arrives, and running a donor database properly.
About 9 hours · Video and podcast in development
A prep guide built specifically for the CFRE exam. It is also the clearest grounding you will find in ethics, compliance, and risk, which every fundraiser needs whether or not they ever sit the exam.
About 5 hours · Video and podcast in development
Fifty questions written by working CFRE professionals and built on the domains the exam actually tests. Scored on the spot, with every answer explained so a wrong one tells you where to go study.
Six questions free, no account needed
Onboarding a new fundraiser is the most expensive month of their tenure, and most of it is spent teaching what a course could. Put them through Raise101 in week one, then keep the account as a professional development benefit anyone on staff can use year round to work toward the CFRE. It costs less per person than a single conference registration, and it does not expire in October.
