Too often that contribution is undervalued, because of ignorance of its worth or, more importantly, an indication of a low level of confidence and a low self evaluation of the worth of the community by the community members. Sometimes some community members wish to hide their resources on the mistaken assumption that we or others will only bring outside resources if we believe that the community is very poor, and that we or other donors may withhold funds if the community is thought to have too many of its own resources. Other donors may include people who donate the preparing of food and refreshments to the community members on communal working days. Do not forget to thank the people who cook and prepare food for communal labourers. Contributions and pledges may be made at public community fund raising events.
Participants make their decisions to donate in a public meeting or event. .
Raffles and lotteries, gambling-based fund raising techniques. are better suited to well organized, sophisticated urban NGOs, rather than new, rural, small CBOs . They often have private ideological or religious reasons, but wish to remain unpublicized. . The calculation of costs of financing community based projects must be fair and accurate, and estimates must not undervalue non-cash community donations. Fund Raising , methods for NGOs and CBOs to obtain finance.