Useful links

A hand-picked directory of the most useful tools and reading in the sector.

• CASE: Fundraising Fundamentals Featured
  The Council for Advancement and Support of Education's primer on educational fundraising fundamentals.
• Hubbub: Challenge Week platform & expert support Featured
  Hubbub's Challenge Week platform with group pages, leaderboards and match funding, plus expert guidance.
• Hubbub: Digital fundraising webinars Featured
  On-demand webinars on Giving Days, donor acquisition and digital fundraising from Hubbub's consultants.
• Hubbub: Giving Day platform & expert support Featured
  Hubbub's white-label Giving Day platform with built-in ambassador tools and expert campaign guidance.
• IDPE: Institute of Development Professionals in Education Featured
  The UK's membership body for schools' development and fundraising, training, benchmarking and best practice.
• Case study: Balcarras School raised over £40,000 on its first Giving Day
  How a state school raised over £40,000 on its first Giving Day.
• Case study: Highgate School's first Giving Day
  Creating transformational impact with a first Giving Day.
• Case study: London Business School Giving Day
  Multiple Giving Days with growing participation and income.
• CASE: Voluntary Support of Education (benchmarking data)
  Benchmarking data and research on philanthropic support for education, useful for target-setting.
• Fundraising Copy Checker
  A free tool from Hubbub to check and improve the clarity and impact of your fundraising copy.
• Hubbub blog: Effective lead generation strategies for charities
  Practical approaches to growing your contactable, email-reachable audience.
• Hubbub: Giving Day Simulator
  Model the likely results of your Giving Day based on your audience size and response rates.
• Hubbub: How-to guides (email, match & challenge, ambassadors, social)
  Hubbub's practical how-to guides, including the Email Fundraising Guide, Match & Challenges Guide, Ambassador's Guide and Social Media Toolkit.
• Webinar: Challenge Weeks, not quite Giving Day, not quite crowdfunding
  Hubbub consultants explain the Challenge Week model and how to run one.
• Webinar: York Challenge Week
  The University of York team on how they built and grew their sport-focused Challenge Week.