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Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides libraries with tips, techniques, and best practices to plan and execute effective fundraising events. In addition to step-by-step procedures, this resource also provides useful checklists and worksheets as well as fundraising event profiles used by various libraries to generate needed funds.

Important topics covered include:

• Fundraising essentials
• Checklist guide for planning a gala
• Key questions for first-time events
• Budget saving tips
• Annual special...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource delivers a wealth of successful strategies for any fundraising endeavor, including annual funds, capital campaigns, volunteer-driven efforts, and project campaigns. In addition to presenting strategies to help nonprofit organizations meet or surpass fundraising goals, this resource provides step-by-step fundraising procedures successfully implemented by other nonprofit organizations and includes a variety of useful sample forms and reports.

Important topics covered include:

• Donor tours to ignite...

A practical, proven system for finding, applying for, and winning grants for your small business

This year alone, there is at least $350 million worth of grant money available for small businesses. But plenty of small businesses will miss out on that money because they either don't know it's there or don't know how to get it. Written by a consultant who helps individuals, local governments, and nonprofits find and receive grant money, Find Grant Funding Now provides proven, step-by-step guidance on applying for and win the grant money they need to succeed.

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Step-by-step guidance to key fundraising methods to attract, engage, and retain donors of all ages

Fundraising and the Next Generation brings readers up to date on cases, research, opportunities, and challenges regarding philanthropy's next generation. Readers will learn practical strategies for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of Gen X and Y philanthropists using new technologies and traditional tools. Fundraising and the Next Generation covers the behaviors, key characteristics, and approaches for working with philanthropists under the age of forty. In...

Practical tools and techniques to incorporate ethical standards and practices in nonprofit fundraising

Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy is a helpful and inspiring resource for nonprofits large and small, young and mature, local and international. The insightful guidance and case studies found within these pages will help you understand how to address specific ethical issues within your nonprofit and leave plenty of food for thought and discussion.

• Adds new materials on new business practice codes, the Ethics Assessment Inventory, coverage of new ethics...

Includes Sample Letters, Real World Examples, Style Tips, New Chapters on E-mail, Websites, Social Media, and More...

Now in a completely revised third edition, this classic book shows how to create winning appeals that will realize the full potential of direct mail and online fundraising. Written by fundraising guru Mal Warwick, with assistance from Eric Overman, this comprehensive resource gives nonprofit fundraising staff the information needed to write compelling fundraising appeals for any medium. If you follow Warwick's guidelines, your direct mail and online fundraising...

This book is a guide for private and public schools on how to raise large sums of money using the same methods as a mature school development program or the opera. It's a beginner's book for an emerging development program or a professional director new to the school environment. It sets aside the assumption that grants and candy sales are the ways to go and puts the focus on cultivating people, the sources of the largest checks and the keys to the greatest resources. Topics covered in the book include creating a development plan, soliciting major gifts, researching donor prospects, building...

Successful Fundraising presents fresh insights on raising friends and funds: How to be a successful ambassador for an organization. What to do to land large gifts. What ingenious strategies to follow to raise large sums of money. What insightful guidelines to follow when working with wealthy people. How to raise millions of dollars? Several well-honed strategies spell the difference: Use ingenuity. Create a winning game plan Build enduring relationships Capturing the support of wealthy people Strategizing for new constraints

Transform fundraising events into long-term revenue with expert auction advice

A Higher Bid is the nonprofit school and organization guide to planning and executing more exciting, more lucrative special event fundraisers. In this book, award-winning consultant, fundraiser, speaker, and professional auctioneer Kathy Kingston shares her proprietary and proven approaches to audience development, board empowerment, leadership succession, guest cultivation and engagement, and donor development. You'll learn how live auctions, special appeals, innovative icebreakers, silent...

VOLUNTEERS ARE A powerful force for good in the world. Millions give their time, effort and money to charitable causes such as feeding the poor, educating the uneducated, tending the sick and fighting for the dignity and rights of their fellow men, women and children. Today, doctors, dentists and nurses pay their own way to sail floating hospitals to places like Africa and Southeast Asia. They treat thousands of people in places where modern medicine is practically unknown. Former presidents and leaders of nations have picked up a trowel and hammer to build houses, AIDS clinics and roads and...

A treasure chest of information on more than 5,800 current programs from over 2,000 sponsors, including U.S. and foreign foundations, corporations, government agencies, and other organizations. Find grants for basic research, equipment acquisition, building construction/renovation, fellowships, and 23 other program types. Government grants include CFDA, NSF, and NIH program numbers. Each record includes grant title, description, requirements, amount, application deadline, contact information (phone, fax, and email), Internet access, sponsor name and address, and samples of awarded grants...

Your annual appeal is the backbone of your fundraising program. Something this important doesn't deserve to be an afterthought. This guide walks you step-by-step through how to plan, design, budget, write, print, mail, and evaluate an appeal package that will raise more money for your organization. This guide will show you how to: Create a more valuable mailing list. Develop accurate budgets and revenue projections. Craft a compelling letter and reply device. Communicate with designers and printers. Increase response rates and average gift. Manage logistics of segmenting your donors. Upgrade...

This guidebook to successful fundraising was created to help anyone who is new to the charitable sector. After reading this book you will know what it takes to build a solid fund development plan and understand why some charities are more successful than others. Practical and concise, this 'must read' is full of stories, statistics and extensive real-world expertise.

Grant Writing Skills and Techniques made simple and usable for all levels

A specialized directory focusing on important funding areas for nonprofit organizations. It contains over 1,800 entries, detailing sources for hard-to-find grants covering the day-to-day expenses of running a nonprofit organization such as staff salaries, rent and utilities.