Unsure of what search term to use? Try the following:

grants, endowment, deferred giving, bequest, gift, nvestment

Or try action words such as:
writing (for grant writing)
recruiting (for recruiting donors)
OR type of resource:
handbooks for practical tools and resources
statistics to focus on quantitative data.

Top 5 Resources:

Canada's non-profit maze : a scan of legislation and regulation impacting revenue generation in the non-profit sector / Lynn Eakin & Heather Graham. Wellesley Institute, 2009. (Available online)

A guide to writing a case statement. Community Foundations of Canada. (Available online)

The JCF Canadian gift planning handbook / Robert A. Kleinman. The Jewish Community Foundation of Montréal, 2008. (Available online)

(Online) fundraising campaign in a box. Network for Good, 2009. (Available online)

Pan-Canadian funding practice in communities : challenges and opportunities for the government of Canada : final report / [Katherine Scott and Marilyn Struthers]. Canadian Council on Social Development, 2006. (Available online)

You can also use these keywords in searching the catalogues of other academic and public libraries.

Look also for materials on special topics such as fund raising for specific causes, e.g. arts, education, health, or international development and relief, or fund raising as a profession, e.g. fund raiser careers, or fund raising business ethics.

To search the full Library Catalogue for additional records, use the keywords: Fund raising and Fund raisers. Note that the single word "fundraising" also appears in the literature, but that it is the Library of Congress subject practice to write it in two parts.

Other Resources:

Upcoming free webinars offered by CanadaHelps :
November 4 – Budgeting for Social Media with Lindsey Patten from Notes for Non-Profits and Synthesis Communications
November 18 – What Would Harvey Do? with Mark Farmer from webness.biz
December 2 – Top Ten Social Media Mistakes to Avoid

For Canada's most authoritative and complete online directory of funding sources, please see Imagine Canada's online Canadian Directory to Foundations & Corporations. The Directory lists details of all of the grant-making foundations in Canada. Currently there are just over 3000 grant-making foundations in Canada out of the total 10,000 registered Canadian foundations. The Directory is fully searchable by foundation, by area of funding interest, by subject terms of grants given, granting region, and includes revenue and disbursement information and listings of directors, program officers and staff. The Directory is available by subscription. For more information, please visit the Imagine Canada Web site.

Imagine Canada also maintains an important standard of good practice, the Ethical Fundraising and Financial Accountability Code. For more information on this important initiative, please visit the Imagine Canada Web site.

These resources and many more are indexed in the catalogue of the Imagine Canada – John Hodgson Library. To search the entire holdings of the catalogue, click here.

For a selection of Web sites, see the Fund raising category in the Nonprofitscan Links Directory.

For resources on Nonprofit Organization Management, including financial planning, see the Guide to NPO Management Resources.

For resources on Legal and Regulatory Issues in the nonprofit sector, including resources on privacy and tax legislation, see the Guide to Legal and Regulatory Resources.

"The three key factors that influence a person to make a charitable donation are capacity, connection, and commitment.."

-- Understanding Canadian donors : using the National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating to build your fundraising program (2004), p. 11.