Cost : A

When it comes to production and deployment costs, fundraising calendars get a perfect "A”. This is because fundraising calendars are basically cheap to produce and distribute. While other fundraising ideas will run into thousands of dollars, printing calendars will only cost you a few hundred. For small fundraising projects to just the opening salvo for a big fundraising campaign, custom calendars have the perfect costs for anyone. Even with limited resources, you should be able to manage creating a good custom calendar with free software, free design elements and cheap calendar printing, as long as you know where to look. So cost wise, fundraising calendars are perfect.

Effectiveness: B

In terms of effectiveness, using color calendars for fundraising is a decent "B”. We gave it a "B” because it is not always a sure fire way to get several times the returns, but it still gives you great returns on your investment. This is the case because with custom calendars, you do have competition from other commercial calendars. Your fundraising calendars will have to go head to head with professionally made calendars which can sell for cheaper prices if need be. . So you will have to work and be competitive with your fundraising calendars for them to be effective. If you really work hard though with the design and distribution, it should get you amazing results though, giving you a great fundraising boost, especially at the turn of each year.

Ease of design: A+

When it comes to creation and design, we gave fundraising calendars a whopping "A+”. Why? That’s because designing custom calendars today is simply a breeze. Most desktop publishing applications today (even simple ones like Microsoft Word) can create a simple calendar design for you with convenient calendar templates. Other design software can use special calendar templates that you can actually customize yourself in various ways. So whether you are a newbie that needs some quick calendar formatting, or you are an expert that wants to control every aspect of the design, color calendars can be a breeze to design for you. There is just so little trouble with dealing with it; that is why a fundraising calendar design gets an A+ in this category.

Ease of printing: B

Printing calendars gets a "B” on our grades. Why? That is because printing calendars is pretty simple, easy and very convenient today. While you will still need some know-how and maybe a little bit of research on the process of printing and the best options in color calendar printing, the whole process can easily be simplified by online calendar printing companies. These firms can typically help you with the whole process, letting you choose the precise details that you want to change. After that, they can handle the rest of the process, delivering you the finished products within days. It is very easy to print, as long as you willing to learn and try to get the hang of what is happening.

Deployment : B

Finally, on deployment, we give fundraising calendars a "B”’. It is a "B” simply because it is relatively easy to deploy, but you will have to do all of it with some footwork and creative marketing. To get lots of custom calendars sold for your campaign, you will have to do be a bit extensive with your activities. Passively selling custom calendars will not give you the best results. You will need to promote and get other people to help you sell those calendars to get returns from them. So while they are easy to move around and sell, you will have to work to get them to the right people.

So those are the grades for each aspect of fundraising calendars. Overall it is a good positive spread of grades. It is good enough for you to seriously consider using custom calendars in most of your fundraising campaigns.