This paper provides an overview of various mechanisms and methods for raising domestic funds. Sources of funding include direct state financing, indirect state support, and private domestic sources. The paper also addresses new fundraising methods, such as crowdfunding and text-to-give.

This paper focuses on opportunities to enhance financial sustainability by raising funds from private domestic sources and indirect state support. It explores new methods of fundraising, including crowdfunding, text-to-give, and online donations, and shares examples from Central and Eastern Europe.

This study, produced by ECNL, compares the legal framework for fundraising in sixteen European countries.

This handbook introduces the rules and principles of CSO fundraising and offers practical advice on overcoming common difficulties.

Electronic fundraising campaigns are increasingly popular in Eurasia.  In this report series, ICNL examines the legal framework for this trend, provides recommendations on how to use existing tools, and information on how to further develop new methods for fundraising: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.

This report, assembled by the Blockchain Trust Accelerator at New America with the support of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, assesses opportunities and obstacles in charitable donations of virtual currencies. It aims to bring civil society organizations, would-be virtual currency donors, and policymakers up to speed on emerging trends.

This report and briefer provides a global overview of current trends in fundraising regulation and self-regulation. It also offers principles and recommendations addressing seven key areas based on international and regional standards and country practices. The report aims to support advocacy efforts to create an enabling environment for fundraising around the globe.

Percentage-designation mechanisms can provide supplementary sources of income and support the financial sustainability of civil society. This ECNL report summarizes case studies from Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, highlighting important characteristics of percentage legislation and illustrating how to use these mechanisms effectively.

This chart compares the percentage-designation mechanisms in Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia.

This paper describes the concept of social entrepreneurship and compares the regulation of social enterprises in France, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

This ECNL report, prepared for the United Nations Development Program, analyzes models of social economy and social enterprises in five countries of the European Union.

This ECNL policy paper examines European approaches to the regulation and taxation of income from CSOs’economic activities. The paper also discusses related issues, such as social entrepreneurship and passive investment.

This study by the European Social Enterprise Law Association maps the legal structures for social enterprises in Europe and analyzes the ways in which they are shaped and supported by laws and regulations.

This assessment examines the complex legal environment for CSOs and social enterprises in Jamaica, compares the country’s laws and their implementation to international legal standards, and considers the implications for reform.

This publication presents an overview of European approaches to the regulation of organizations with public benefit status.

This publication presents an annotated model law for countries wishing to develop their own legislation to promote public benefit organizations.

This paper compares approaches to the regulation of public benefit status. It was originally prepared as a guide to the drafting of a new law on associations in Egypt. Available in Arabic only.