Fundraising a Flemish Belgian experience

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Fundraisinga Flemish (Belgian) experience

• Luc van Nevel

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Options

• Former classics
• Sponsoring
• Working for
• Governments and local authorities
• Tax deductable gifts
• Fiscal constructions
• What other more, you know

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Former classics

• Gifts doing nothing and getting money
• Coming out of the philanthropic corner
• Inheritance, legacy, heritage
• Marine (army)
• Police
• Become rare (read dramatic), almost 0

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Sponsoring

• Earlier sectors
• Tabacco
• Refreshments
• Banks
• For the big events are drying up -
  forbidden
  
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  - public to small
  
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  - not enough radiation
  
• Exception soft, small, or local activities

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Working for money

• A bag full, well known selling activities
• New ideas another sack on internet
• Even interest groups, syndicates and fundraising
  managers associations
  
• TAKE A LOOK AT THE INTERNET

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Governments and local authorities

• This is our most important source now
• General problem lack of information
• Role of a fundraising manager
• - a good manager may have a cost
• - must have some liberty (how far?)
• still missing information
• e.g. ECC exchange and other international
  project possibilities
  

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Tax-deductible gifts

• Is this typical for Belgium ?
• Procedure

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Fiscal constructions

• This IS typical for Belgium
• Risky activity
• Saves in general 20 of expenses
• Method / procedure

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Case FOS-vlet for Croatia

• Was a mix of
• Classics
• Sponsoring
• Tax deductable gifts
• A lot of own work
• ? No other fundraising too short in time

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• The End
• Fin