Praise for Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan
"Linda provides a very practical outlook on how to succeed in developing and implementing a fundraising plan for a nonprofit organization. The importance of the various players and their roles--staff, board, and volunteers--is critical for any nonprofit organization, and the information in Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan could effectively be used by any size organization to organize and execute an effective development strategy." --Diane Hartz Warsoff, Executive Director Utah Nonprofits...
Praise for Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan
"Linda provides a very practical outlook on how to succeed in developing and im...
Praise for Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers
"Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to ensure success in a campaign. She clearly outlines logical steps that lead to inspiring passion in the volunteer, who is so essential to reaching a goal. I wish such a comprehensive treatise had been available to me forty years ago " --Milton Murray, Director Emeritus Philanthropic Service for Institutions Adventist World Headquarters (Silver Spring, Maryland)
"It was a pleasure to read Ms. Lysakowski's book, which outlines the...
Praise for Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers
"Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to en...
If your organization is considering a capital, endowment, or other major fundraising campaign, Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? by Linda Lysakowski will help you assess: * Whether you have a donor prospect pool for major campaign gifts. * Whether you have planned adequately for the campaign. * Whether your board is willing to step up to support the campaign. * Whether your staff has sufficient time to devote to the campaign. * Whether you have the right policies and procedures in place. * Whether your community is ready for the campaign. * How well your software system can manage a...
If your organization is considering a capital, endowment, or other major fundraising campaign, Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? by Linda Lysakows...
What if you could sit down with 25 successful consultants and ask them what makes their businesses tick?
In The Nonprofit Consulting Playbook: Winning Strategies from 25 Leaders in the Field, Susan Schaefer and Linda Lysakowski have compiled a first-of-its-kind insight into the everyday lives of consultants to the nonprofit sector. This collection of firsthand articles takes the reader on a journey that spans a consultant's professional life-from the decisions that formed the business to a detailed set of options for winding it down.
The beauty of this book lies in the honesty of its...
What if you could sit down with 25 successful consultants and ask them what makes their businesses tick?
Leslie Flynn, a widow who moves to rural Nevada after her husband dies, has a mystical experience through which she is given three mandates by God, setting into motion a series of events that plummet her into the worlds of the Native American casino industry, a hi tech business magnate, and the Vatican hierarchy. Leslies experience begins when her duties as a travel writer take her to Bishop, California, to visit the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Trees, the oldest living things on Earth. She is drawn to the Matriarch, the largest of the Bristlecones alive today. As she approaches the tree, she is...
Leslie Flynn, a widow who moves to rural Nevada after her husband dies, has a mystical experience through which she is given three mandates by God, se...