Yes, your community-based grassroots advocacy organization can create a culture of fundraising and be successful at it.  I’m tired of hearing people from grassroots community-based organizations say they cannot develop a culture of fundraising and cultivate individual donors. Instead, they don’t bother to try and spend a lot of time complaining about foundations (which deserve to be complained about, true). CHiRLA—a wonderful Los Angeles nonprofit rooted immigrant community—elected to light a candle rather than curse the darkness. Someone should send this blog piece to Vu Le!  http://www.grassrootsfundraising.org/2017/07/if-you-build-it-they-will-come-creating-a-culture-of-fundraising/#comment-118558