Non-profits are setup to fail. 1.5 million appear in the us today and the number continues to grow. For funding, many non-profits depend upon a grant pool that over the years have remained the same, not nearly matching the increase in demand. To exacerbate the growing need for more funding the world's economy collapsed in 2008 and is also showing only meager indications of recovery.

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A reliance on grants and the reality of an shrinking pool of money have formulated a 'can't fail' mentality for non-profits. If your program is funded through a grant along with the non-profit reports the funded program as a failure, the funder will most often went somewhere else: locate a successful program to invest in. A cycle of waste develops as non-profits tend to report only successes, for anxiety about losing the amount of money. In the long run, broken programs get compensated while potentially successful programs sit down on the shelf and gather dust.

Innovations in non-profit fundraising techniques have helped non-profits succeed when others have failed at the same time traditional revenue streams have dried out. Social media marketing spaces like Facebook will make the specter of raising money a tremendous amount easier by spreading your fundraising goals over the larger pool.

With more than 677 million new users worldwide and Facebook fundraising searches up 85%+ the Facebook community can be an incredibly fruitful space for getting your message out and attracting donors. You can share links for a fundraiser on your friend feed, message or email your mates directly, be involved in groups and much more to gain exposure and raise money and supporters for your cause.

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Facebook fundraising is an extremely simple process that can oftentimes be covered with minimal staff, allowing your resources to travel towards creating truly successful programs.

And when friends and family are informed of the good what you are doing they are able to become a bullhorn, letting much more people know about what you're doing. Your message can quickly hop on the exponential bandwagon promptly go viral. Quickly you can have people from around the world reaching out and helping fund your cause.

Quite simply to its essence non-profit fundraising is around recognizing a contributing factor, creating a message around that create and getting that message out to those who can best you in affecting positive change around that induce.

More eyes = more visitors = more supporters = more donations!

The laws of probability are on your side when a platform can potentially reach an audience of 677 million users.