Essential Principles for Fundraising Success – An Answer Manual for the Everyday Challenges of Raising Money
An Answer Manual for the Everyday Challenges of Raising Money
Paperback Engels 2012 9781118427330Samenvatting
Essential Principles for Fundraising Success is a single–source, easy–access guide that offers answers to the most commonly asked questions posed by professional fundraisers and volunteers. Organized in a clear, easy–to–use question and answer format,
Essential Principles for Fundraising Success takes on the challenges that arise daily in the ongoing, high–pressured business of raising money. In this book, G. Douglass Alexander and Kristina Carlson (the founders of the successful Internet–based, fundraising consulting firm FundraisingINFO) offer insight from their combined forty–six years of experience working with thousands of nonprofit organizations. Based on the enduring principles of fundraising, this important resource shows how to master the three mainstays of fundraising developing a case statement, creating a campaign strategy, and securing big gifts.
Essential Principles for Fundraising Success also offers creative, out–of–the–box solutions for convincing reluctant board members and other stakeholders to follow proven, effective fundraising strategies
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
<p>Preface ix</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xi</p>
<p>Introduction: Purpose and Observations 1</p>
<p>1 Principles of Fundraising: Time–Tested Truths 5</p>
<p>2 Essential Fundraising Tools: Focusing Your Work 10</p>
<p>3 The Board: Where Fundraising Begins 19</p>
<p>4 Research: Working Smarter 29</p>
<p>5 Annual Campaigns: The Basis for the Future 39</p>
<p>6 Direct Mail: How to Build Your Donor Base 54</p>
<p>7 Special Events: Making Friends, Raising Funds, and Having Fun 66</p>
<p>8 Major Gifts: Getting to the Big Gifts 84</p>
<p>9 Capital Campaigns: Building Success 96</p>
<p>10 Planned Giving: You Can Do It 116</p>
<p>11 Foundation Grants: Writing and Other Keys to Success 131</p>
<p>12 Corporate Dollars: Sponsorship, Marketing, and More 143</p>
<p>13 Technology: Embrace It 154</p>
<p>14 Stewardship: Saying Thanks Pays Dividends 164</p>
<p>15 Putting It All Together 180</p>
<p>References 183</p>
<p>The Authors 185</p>
<p>Index 187</p>
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