fundraising drives
Organized solicitation efforts
Fundraising drives are organized campaigns to collect money for a cause, organization, or project.
The drive implies concentrated effort over a defined period—a charity's annual fundraising drive, a school's fundraising drive for new equipment.
The fundraising drive exceeded its goal by twenty percent.
The term often appears in nonprofit and community contexts.
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- donationsGifts to organizations
- pledgesFormal promises given
- telethonExtended charity broadcast
- campaignsOrganized efforts toward goals
capital campaign · volunteers · auction · gala · raffle · sponsors · appeals · goal · stretch goal · thermometer · bake sale · car wash · matching · contributions · nonprofit · annual fund · canvassing · door to door
- cause marketingawareness campaign, pink ribbon
- Online Activismhashtag activism, online petitions, social media activism, clicktivism, slacktivism
- public broadcastingPBS, NPR, BBC, CBC, public affairs
- radioFM radio, crystal set, AM radio, radio station, radio broadcast
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- alumnialumni, alumni network, alum, Harvard alumni, alumni reunion
fundraising drivespassive income
Money earned without labor
royalty payments · rental income · investment returns · interest earnings · dividend income
fundraising drivesspending sprees
Episodes of excessive purchasing
charitable giving · liquidation · divestment · deficit spending
fundraising, funds, funded, funding, raise, raises, raised, raising, raiser