Raise101

Fundraising courses designed by experienced professionals

To help you fill the gaps in your knowledge, or level up in your career to study for and pass the CFRE.

Can you pass the CFRE?

Free

An organization's donor database and its finance system report materially different totals for the year. The FIRST priority is to:

(Question from Domain 5: Leadership and Management of the CFRE exam)

Pick an answer to see whether you are right and why.

Are you ready to fundraise?

Free

You ask a donor to consider a gift of $10,000. What should you do immediately after saying the number?

(Question from Fundraising 101: Fundraising Events)

Pick an answer to see whether you are right and why.

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Fundraising 101

A beginner's guide for anyone new to fundraising, or doing it already and never taught. Sixteen modules in the order the work happens: the vocabulary, reading your own numbers, a strategy, the case for support, events and prospecting, then asking, from the smallest gift to the largest, plus foundations and corporates. It finishes with the parts nobody teaches you: working with your finance office, what the law requires when a gift arrives, and running a donor database properly.

Try 6 questions free

About 9 hours · Video and podcast in development

CFRE 101

A prep guide built specifically for the CFRE exam. It is also the clearest grounding you will find in ethics, compliance, and risk, which every fundraiser needs whether or not they ever sit the exam.

See how it maps to the exam

About 5 hours · Video and podcast in development

CFRE Sample Exam

Fifty questions written by working CFRE professionals and built on the domains the exam actually tests. Scored on the spot, with every answer explained so a wrong one tells you where to go study.

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Six questions free, no account needed

For your whole team

Onboarding a new fundraiser is the most expensive month of their tenure, and most of it is spent teaching what a course could. Put them through Raise101 in week one, then keep the account as a professional development benefit anyone on staff can use year round to work toward the CFRE. It costs less per person than a single conference registration, and it does not expire in October.

Set up your team$49 per person per month, billed from your roster. No contract.