For a small water group, the last two months of the year are not just the holidays. They are the single biggest stretch for raising the money that keeps the lights on. If fundraising is the part of running a nonprofit that makes you wince, here is a free hour that can help. Freshwater Future is hosting an online session on year-end fundraising on Tuesday, October 13, and it is built for both first-timers and old hands.
The short versionFreshwater Future is running a free webinar, Fundraising Tips for End of the Year, on Tuesday, October 13 from noon to 1 PM Eastern (11 AM to noon Central), live on Zoom. The hour covers practical tactics for bringing in as many donations as possible during the holiday giving season, with tools you can take straight into your own year-end campaign. If you have never fundraised before, it is a starting point. If you consider yourself a pro, it is a refresher. One catch: the session will not be recorded, so you have to show up live.
Why the last two months matter
For a lot of nonprofits, and especially the volunteer-run watershed groups that make up much of our network, the final weeks of the year are when the fundraising year is won or lost. People give around the holidays, they give before the tax year closes, and a group that shows up in their inbox with a clear, well-timed ask tends to do a lot better than one that does not. A single good year-end campaign can fund a season of monitoring, a streambank planting, or the insurance bill that lets a group keep operating at all.Free, one hour, October 13
Noon to 1 PM Eastern (11 AM to noon Central), live on Zoom. The session will not be recorded, so plan to attend in person.
What the hour covers
The focus is simple and practical: how to bring in more donations during the upcoming holiday season, and how to build an end-of-year plan you can actually run. Freshwater Future is pitching it as useful for two kinds of people. If you are new to fundraising and not sure where to begin, this is a place to start without feeling lost. If you have done this for years, it is a chance to sharpen the approach and pick up a tool or two you have not tried. Either way, you leave with something to put to work before the giving season hits full swing.Why it matters for the rest of us
Clean water in this basin runs on the backs of small groups with tight budgets, and a group that cannot raise money cannot do the work, no matter how good its science or how dedicated its volunteers. Capacity is the quiet foundation under everything else, and an hour spent getting better at the year-end ask is an hour that pays for itself many times over. Freshwater Future has spent years helping grassroots water groups stand on their own two feet, so this is time well spent. Block the Tuesday, bring your questions, and come ready to make this your group’s best December yet.Details from a Freshwater Future announcement for its Fundraising Tips for End of the Year webinar, Tuesday, October 13, 2026, noon to 1 PM Eastern, on Zoom. Current as of October 7, 2026.
