Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - Fundraising & Grants

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ISBN 0787949949 / 9780787949945 - The Five Strategies for Fundraising Success: A Mission-Based Guide to Achieving Your Goals
ISBN 0787956740 / 9780787956745 - Ten Steps to Fundraising Success: Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Organization

Bringing diverse cultural traditions into philanthropic fundraising can be rewarding for all parties involved. Accomplishing that daunting task successfully is the theme of this issue. Opening a constructive dialogue between theory and practice in philanthropic fundraising in diverse cultural and giving environments, editor Robert E. Fogal, executive director of St. Mary's Duluth Clinic Foundation, is joined by contributing authors from the 2002 Think Tank on Fundraising at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame Indiana. Exploring the topic from a variety of perspectives, editor and authors seek a...

Are volunteers still relevant to the fundraiser's work? If so, for what reasons? If not, why not?

This issue looks atypically at volunteers and fundraising. Contributing authors examine fewer of the how-tos of working with volunteers and more of the psychological and psychosocial aspects of volunteers' and development professionals' personalities. The assessment extends to organizational characteristics, evolutionary stage and size, and the reasons that certain types of volunteers and fundraisers may be drawn to work with a particular nonprofit group.

Moving from broad concept to...

A straightforward guide to the principles of effective fundraising operations

An Executive Guide to Fundraising Operations provides fundraisers with easy-to-understand approaches to evaluate and address fundraising operations needs and opportunities. This guide simplifies and focuses on the analysis of problems and needs, allowing a quick return to fundraising.

• Provides the essential framework to improve and innovate development operations
• Includes dozens of practical tools, including sample policies for data, database, reporting, and business processes
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Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource provides nonprofit organizations and professionals with strategies for generating more online contributions and leveraging websites for fundraising. It is filled with ways to engage visitors, communicate with donors, and add interactivity, revenue-generating online events and funding opportunities to an organization's website.

Important topics covered include:

• Integrating fundraising into websites
• Social media
• Building lists
• Online tools
• Online donor engagement
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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 offers advice on wining more grants. It provides step-by-step procedures for identifying, prioritizing, and approaching foundations and corporations for grant support; specific strategies and approaches used by foundation and corporate relations professionals; and tips, techniques, and best practices to draft and submit winning grant proposals.

Important topics covered include:

• Grant-seeking procedures for beginners
• Essentials for pursuing federal grants
• Finding the best corporate and...

Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource features important fundraising principles and techniques for small charities and nonprofit organizations that do not have the resources to support robust fundraising plans.

Important topics covered include:

• Development plans
• Developing fundraising plans
• First-time fundraising efforts
• Annual operational plans
• Donor calls
• Major gift solicitations
• Phonathons and direct mail on a shoestring budget
• Endowments
• Event planning
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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 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
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Originally published by Stevenson, Inc., this practical resource helps nonprofit organizations establish effective fundraising programs. This resource provides useful information to produce winning fundraising plans, build mailing lists, effectively manage records, produce direct mail appeals, solicit major gifts, and more.

Important topics covered include:

• Expanding an organization's donor base
• Researching donor prospects
• First time fundraising efforts
• Annual operational plans
• Fundraising evaluation
• Building a mailing...

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 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...

Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in government and foundation grants--and revised to include vital up-to-the minute interviews with grantmakers, policy makers, and nonprofit leaders about seeking grants in today's economic climate--this new edition of the classic book on grant seeking provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for grant writers.

INCLUDING:
-CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS FOR DEVELOPING EACH SECTION OF A PROPOSAL
-HANDS-ON EXERCISES THAT LET YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU LEARN
-A GLOSSARY OF TERMS
-FUNDERS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS THAT EXPLAIN WHY...

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...

Achieving Excellence in Fundraising is the go-to reference for fundraising principles, concepts, and techniques. With comprehensive guidance toward the fundraising role, this book reflects the latest advances in fundraising knowledge. Coverage includes evolving technologies, the importance of high net worth donors, global fundraising perspectives, results analysis and performance evaluation, accountability, and credentialing, with contributions from noted experts in the field. You'll gain essential insight into the practice of fundraising and the fundraising cycle, reinforced by...

The bible of grassroots fundraising, updated with the latest tools and methods

Fundraising for Social Change is the preeminent guide to securing funding, with a specific focus on progressive nonprofit organizations with budgets under $5 million. Used by nonprofits nationally and internationally, this book provides a soup-to-nuts prescription for building, maintaining, and expanding an individual donor program. Author Kim Klein is a recognized authority on all aspects of fundraising, and this book distills her decades of expertise into fundraising strategies that work....

Your go-to guide for getting that coveted grant

Though hundreds of thousands of grant opportunities exist, finding the right one can be a challenge. Grant Writing For Dummies, 6^th Edition offers expert guidance for locating available grants, carefully applying, and ultimately winning a grant. From writing compelling applications to properly adhering to strict guidelines and parameters, it takes the intimidation out of the process and shows you how to increase your ability to get a piece of the billion-dollar pie for your non-profit or for-profit...

The real-world guide to successfully funding your nonprofit program

The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management is the comprehensive handbook for successful fundraising, with a practical focus that applies across the nonprofit sector. With a focus on planning, self-assessment, continual improvement, and high-payoff strategies, this book provides more than just ideas--it shows you the concrete, real-world actions that make it all happen, and gives you the tools you need to bring these concepts to life. This new fourth edition features the latest information about social media...