Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. The legitimate process of collecting money by requesting donations from individuals and businesses.
Wikipedia
Fundraising or fund raising (also known as "development") is the process of gathering voluntary contributions of money or other resources, by requesting donations from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies (see also crowd funding). Although fundraising typically refers to efforts to gather money for non-profit organizations, it is sometimes used to refer to the identification and solicitation of investors or other sources of capital for-profit enterprises.
Traditionally, fundraising consisted mostly of asking for donations on the street or at people's doors, and this is experiencing very strong growth in the form of face-to-face fundraising, but new forms of fundraising, such as online fundraising, have emerged in recent years, though these are often based on older methods such as grassroots fundraising.
Usage examples of "fundraising".
From Tuesday, there were nine ads, six catalogs, a bill, notice of a cooking equipment sale, and a bulk-mail fundraising letter from Elk Park Prep.
As fundraising requirements for other states are met, additions to this list will be made and fundraising will begin in the additional states.
A and B teams and was always against some foreign junior squad, to give the whole Fundraising affair a patriotic kicker.
Hall to mark a decade of fundraising by the Upper Charfont Beneficiary Trust and to honour one of its founder members and, more recently, its chairperson, Mrs.
The local association pays for these offices here, and the whole caboodle relies on gifts and fundraising.
Through an emotional fundraising drive on his TV station, Robertson raised several million dollars for the tax-free charitable trust.
I can't even visit most of my safe houses since I started a public fundraising campaign.
This week is the trenches: flesh-pressing, fundraising, traveling, poll-taking, strategizing, grinding out eight-event days in Michigan and Georgia and New York and SC.