General Background and references as of that date, on earned revenue fundraising. . Appropriate permission must be secured from the publisher for re-publication . This properly suggests as a target group a kind of third world of fundraising, relatively week and small entirely or mainly volunteer groups. But, let it be said clearly, this approach and these methods can also be a significant source of supplemental income for larger more powerful groups who ordinarily subsist on grants, generous individual philanthropy, relatively fixed administrative allocations, and the like. Conceivably, the methods could also be useful for unaffiliated individuals, though at first hand, I don't know of any examples of this.
Further definition is provided by the three quotes below.
The methods also tend to avoid fierce competition for available dollars, as in much of grant fundraising and more mundane forms of community fundraising. In the above ways, the methods are particularly appropriate for smaller, weaker organization, but can work for larger more sophisticated organizations as well. A major alternative is community fundraising, sometimes also called earned revenue fundraising.