Free Fundraising Checklist

Your First 90 Days of Fundraising, Week by Week

A free printable checklist for new animal rescues: what to do from getting your EIN to finding your first 25–50 donors and running your first campaign.

A white puppy with a dark eye patch from my rescue

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What's inside

Days 1–30, Foundation: the legal, financial and structural setup donors and grant makers expect to see
Days 31–60, Launch: how to find and thank your first 25–50 donors
Days 61–90, Build the Rhythm: turning one-time donors into regular supporters and setting up simple systems
Week-by-week checkboxes in a printable PDF you can tape to the wall and work through

Why I made this

I run a nonprofit dog and cat rescue, and I've been at it for 13 years. This checklist is what I did in our first months to get the rescue on solid ground: getting set up properly, finding our first donors and building habits that kept the money coming in.

Those habits still matter. When our funds got really low, our savings went from $8,000 to $37,000 in 30 days.

If you're just starting out, you don't need to figure fundraising out by trial and error. Start here.

— The Practical Founder