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Build solid applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch, regardless of whether you have basic programming skills or years of programming experience. With this book, you'll learn how to use Apple's Cocoa framework and the Objective-C language through step-by-step tutorials, hands-on exercises, clear examples, and sound advice from a Cocoa expert.

Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running offers just enough theory to ground you, then shows you how to use Apple's rapid development tools -- Xcode and Interface Builder -- to develop Cocoa applications, manage user interaction,...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource helps nonprofit organizations generate more endowment gifts. This resource provides step-by-step procedures to help build endowments, ideas and approaches to raise needed funds, actionable tips and techniques, and helpful charts, forms, and useful examples.

Important topics covered include:

• Annual endowment goals
• Endowment FAQs
• Endowed scholarships community engagement
• Marketing endowment opportunities
• Donor cultivation
• Named gifts
• Board member...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides nonprofit leaders and professionals with advice on increasing media exposure, preparing staff to handle media inquiries, and tips and best practices for preparing for media interviews.

Important topics covered include:

• Copy writing
• Media buyers
• Rural media
• Interviews
• Press releases
• Conferences
• Client spotlights
• Crisis preparation
• Media relation policies
• Press release policies
• Social media
• Strategic...

Nonprofit organizations often struggle with selecting and screening volunteers and placing them in the best possible positions. This practical resource, originally published by Stevenson, Inc., provides actionable tips and techniques to improve volunteer selection, screening, and placement.

The articles in this resource cover useful topics such as: recruitment procedures aimed at filling key volunteer positions, techniques for screening volunteers in advance, interviewing procedures, tips for checking references, how to conduct thorough background checks, how to decline a volunteer...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource features strategies for nonprofit organizations to plan, celebrate, and engage constituents in milestone events.

Important topics covered include:

• Community engagement
• Fundraising
• Planning and preparation essentials for yearlong events
• Inauguration ceremonies
• Facility dedications
• Organizational collaboration
• Recognition programs
• Celebrity events
• Talent competitions
• Time capsules
• Grand re-openings
• Celebrating...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource features dozens of ideas on how to plan effective, profitable, wow-factor galas, including:

• Essential first steps for successful galas
• Tips for budget planning and cost-conscious measures
• Volunteer and board member involvement
• Revenue-boosting ideas
• Event publicity and promotion
• Ways to maximize attendance
• Effective live and silent auctions
• Event checklists
• Budget estimations
• Leadership
• Preview parties
• Chairperson...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides nonprofit organizations and their leaders with step-by-step procedures to build and nurture board members who are able and willing to assist with fundraising. In addition to tips, techniques, and best practices to identify and recruit financially capable board members, successful examples from various nonprofit organizations are shared.

Important topics covered include:

• Board nomination committees
• Board member recruiters
• Prospective board member interviews
• Board member...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides member organizations with tips, techniques, and best practices to recruit and retain members. It includes dozens of ways to add value to membership packages and winning ideas from other organizations.

Important topics covered include:

• Alternative membership dues
• E-memberships
• Membership incentives
• Strategic partnerships
• Membership coupons
• Premier memberships
• Unique member benefits
• Member contests
• Member communication
...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource features goal-setting procedures, ways to engage key staff and others, and action plans for shaping effective annual fundraising strategies for nonprofit organizations

Important topics covered include:

• Essential elements to operational plans
• Planning and scheduling Donor tracking
• Revenue forecasting
• Board involvement
• Committee objectives
• Staff engagement
• Investors
• Staff retreats
• Professional growth
• Quantifiable...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource features goal-setting procedures, ways to engage key staff and others, and action plans for shaping effective annual fundraising strategies for nonprofit organizations.

Important topics covered include:

• Annual dollar and participation goals
• Board engagement
• Committee objectives
• First-year plans
• Direct mail appeals
• Quantifiable objectives
• Staff retreats
• Monitoring progress
• Outreach to diverse audiences
• Volunteer...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource helps nonprofit organizations broaden their support from businesses and corporations. It features:

• How to get a business solicitation program up and running
• Advice for securing first-time gifts from businesses
• Techniques to forge relationships with businesses
• Creative examples for approaching and soliciting businesses or corporations
• Ways to secure sponsorships as viable options for support
• How to recognize and steward business donors

Important topics...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource contains tips, techniques, and best practices for motivating volunteers and maximizing their involvement and productivity with your organization.

Important topics covered include:

• Volunteer goals, orientation, motivation
• Volunteer appreciation and recognition
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Volunteer engagement
• Overcoming volunteer burnout
• Volunteer management

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Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource presents organizations with strategies for recruiting and retaining members and includes examples of how various nonprofit organizations have successfully increased their membership numbers.

Important topics covered include:

• Staff engagement
• Member testimonials
• Award programs
• Membership drives
• Recognizing long-term members
• Attracting younger members
• Member feedback
• Member benefits
• Community outreach
• Loyalty cards
...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource helps nonprofit organizations plan and implement profitable and effective direct mail appeals. It includes planning strategies, examples from various nonprofit organizations, techniques to improve response rates, and developing appropriate and effective copy.

Important topics covered include:

• Planning and scheduling
• Personal appeals
• Building mailing lists
• Donor outreach
• Writing calls to action
• Direct mail testing
• Targeting specific groups
...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource presents nonprofit organizations with information on how to secure major gifts, including expert advice on how to identify and approach donors and tips, techniques, and best practices for soliciting major gifts.

Important topics covered include:

• Pursuing estate gifts
• Assessing donor preferences
• Leveraging existing endowments
• Naming opportunities
• Promoting bequests
• Soliciting major gifts
• Strategies for first-time donors
• Donor communication
...