Free guides, playbooks and blog posts on alumni relations, fundraising and advancement work from the Almabase team.
In plain terms: Follow the Almabase blog for best practices in Alumni relations, Fundraising and Advancement Industry.
Why I recommend it: Free to read with no account for most posts. It is published by a software vendor, so the advice is genuine but written to sell their platform — take the practices, ignore the pitch.
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Free online session on how founders pitch the story investors respond to, not only the business details.
Four free courses, 20+ short classes, roughly three to four hours in total, explaining how venture capital works: where it sits among other investments, how funds and deals are structured, and what the shift toward private markets means. Built by Alumni Ventures, no payment or account required to work through it.
Why I recommend it: free and clearly taught — useful if you are about to raise money and want the vocabulary before the meeting. The catch is who wrote it: Alumni Ventures sells access to its own funds, and the site says outright that the Academy is not personalized advice. Take the mechanics from it, not the conclusion that you should invest.
A free, no-code recipe book of practical AI prompts built for nonprofit teams. Turn existing reports, events, and materials into slide decks, web pages, plain-language translations, social copy, and repeatable workflows. Every recipe includes a privacy badge so you know what stays on your computer, what goes public, and what connects to a vendor account.
Why I recommend it: Free to use. Built by Decoded Futures (a TechNYC program). The recipes are framed for nonprofit work, but the same patterns work for job searches, career content, and small-business tasks.
Free training and sample documents for nonprofit and fundraising work from Candid: recorded courses on proposal writing and project budgets, plus real sample cover letters, letters of inquiry, proposal budgets and full funded proposals you can read end to end.
Why I recommend it: The sample full proposals are the part worth your time — reading three funded proposals teaches more than any course on how to write one. Useful well beyond nonprofits: the structure (need, plan, budget, how you will show it worked) is the same structure a grant or pitch wants from a small business.
The actual 2004 pitch deck Reid Hoffman used to raise LinkedIn's Series B, with his annotations explaining each slide.
From the site: At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.
Why I recommend it: One of the few real pitch decks published with the reasoning attached. Read the annotations more than the slides — they show what a room of investors was actually asking.
The San Francisco venture firm's site and essays on what it funds and why — a free window into how investors actually think about startups.
From the site: Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
Why I recommend it: Read their essays before pitching anyone. It tells you what investors are listening for.
