Are you wondering if a career in nonprofit fundraising is for you? Are you already in the fund development field but need practical guidance on how to advance? Are you an employer planning to recruit development staff? Fundraising as a Career: What, Are you Crazy? will: --Introduce you to the nonprofit world --Walk you through your career options --Help you develop the qualities that will make you a great fundraiser --Provide hints on how to transition into development and how to get started on the right foot once you do --Show you how to advance within the fund development office or even into senior management of the organization --Provide nonprofit employers with an insider's view of the traits to look for when recruiting or promoting a development professional This is one of the In the Trenches series of books. You'll know an In the Trenches book not just by its cover, but by the author's fun, upbeat writing style. But don't be fooled by its down-to-earth approach and ample use use of sidebars. In the Trenches books are authoritative and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject. About the Author: Linda Lysakowski is one of fewer than 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation. A philanthropic consultant since 1993, she has managed capital campaigns, helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 16,000 professionals in all aspects of development throughout most of the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Egypt. She is the author of several books on fundraising.

Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy?

Business & Money

Lysakowski, Linda

Job Hunting & Careers

CharityChannel Press

Thomas Edison famously said that genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. Reading this For the GENIUS book shows that you have the inspiration to master the art and science of fundraising. The author helps you with the perspiration part by showing you how to dramatically increase your fundraising results by employing tried-and-true methods used by the most successful nonprofits and institutions. Fundraising for the GENIUS will: *Teach you to develop a sustainable fundraising program that will grow with your organization and allow you to fulfill your mission. *Help you understand the world of philanthropy, development and fundraising (and to know the differences between each). *Enable you to bring together your board, non-development staff, development staff and volunteers to create a powerful development team. *Show you how to evaluate your success and plan for growth in your development program. About the Author: Linda Lysakowski is among the se

Fundraising for the Genius: The Only Book You LL Ever Need to Raise More Money and Support for Your Nonprofit Organization

Linda Lysakowski

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

For the GENIUS Press

YOU and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community has been written for those who want to learn more about the nonprofit sector or improve their knowledge and skills related to nonprofit leadership, management, and fundraising. Whether you are a nonprofit staff member, board member, or volunteer, this book will provide answers you need to be a more valued members of your organization's team. If you are new to the nonprofit word you will find this book an invaluable asset to help you learn more about this noble and fascinating field. If you’ve been in the nonprofit sector for several years, you will benefit from advice given by veteran nonprofit experts. And, even if you’ve been around the block a few times, this book may give you some insights into an aspect of nonprofits that might be new to you. We all want to succeed. We all want to be valued. We all want our organizations to be able to raise the money, find the volunteers, and run more efficiently in order to serve as many people as possible through their noble missions. But it takes more than just wanting success. It takes hard work and knowledge. This book gives you both. The hard work is getting through the book. This is one of the most significant books in the CharityChannel Press In the Trenches series, both in size and in content. It contains contributions from forty-four experts covering the gamut of raising funds and building effective broads, to purchasing technology and insurance, to evaluating your programs, and much more. The knowledge of these authors covers hundreds of years of experience and expertise. Each contribution has been peer-reviewed and selected for inclusion in this based on the fact that the authors are nationally known experts within the nonprofit sector and advice is practical and able to be readily implemented. Contributing Authors:  Helen Arnold Ken Berger Teri Blandon Jesse Bowen Steven Bowman Jana Braswell Heather Burton Linda Batten Butler Alice Collier Cochran George Colabella Marion Conway Monique Cuvelier Pamela Davis Lynne Dean Amy Eisenstein Jill Friedman Fixler John Frank Nathan Garber Jane Garthson Gayle L. Gifford Ernie Ginsler Margaret Guellich Ted Hart Jane Hexter Mary Hiland Tammy Holland Bonnie Koenig Stacy Lewis Joyce Luhrs Linda Lysakowski Stephen C. Nill Michael Nizankiewicz Caroline Oliver Norman Olshansky Robert M. Penna Charles J. Reynolds Andy Robinson Lisa Kay Schweyer Patricia A. Smith Beth Steinhorn Terrie Temkin Andrew Urban Shelley Uva Reid Zimmerman

YOU and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community

Olshansky, Norman

Management & Leadership

Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know is a practical, down-to-earth guide that will take the "pain" out of your capital campaign. Is your organization considering a capital, endowment, or other major fundraising campaign? Do you work for or serve on the board of a nonprofit that is thinking about or ready to launch a capital campaign? Many organizations launch campaigns that disrupt the annual giving program, drain the staff, and fail to reach their goals for a number of reasons: <ul>
<li>The staff is not prepared to focus energies on the campaign and still maintain ongoing fundraising programs. </li> <li>The board does not realize that a campaign will require their time, attention, and financial resources if it is to succeed.</li> <li>The executive director is not willing or able to commit sufficient time to the campaign.</li> <li>Donors have not been educated about the community need this campaign will address.</li> <li>The organization has not taken sufficient time to cultivate relationships with major donor prospects.</li> <li>The organization does not have the infrastructure in place to manage a campaign.</li> <li>The organization tries to run a campaign without involving key community volunteers.</li> </ul>
Launching your campaign prematurely can be the kiss of death. So you need to read this book before you get too far down the road. In fact, you should pick up the companion workbook, Are You ready for a Capital Campaign: Assessing Your Nonprofit’s Ability to Run a Major Fundraising Campaign and complete the workbook before you decide to launch a campaign. In Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know you will learn how to position your organization’s campaign for success. After reading this book, you will understand what makes a case statement compelling, how to structure your campaign, how to budget for the campaign, and how to develop a realistic timeline. And you will be able to run a “painless” campaign. Contents Chapter One What is a Capital Campaign? Chapter Two Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign—Infrastructure Chapter Three Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign—Who Else Needs to be Involved Besides Staff? Chapter Four Developing Your Case for Support—Telling Your Story Chapter Five The Capital Campaign Planning Study—It’s Not Just About the Money Chapter Six The Capital Campaign Plan and Budget Chapter Seven Recruiting and Organizing Campaign Volunteers Chapter Eight Identifying and Cultivating Donors Chapter Nine Making the Ask Chapter Ten Campaign Events and Public Relations Chapter Eleven Recognition and Stewardship Chapter Twelve Life after the Campaign Appendixes include 26 forms, checklists, and samples. About the In the Trenches Series The In the Trenches series is published by CharityChannel Press, a project of the CharityChannel professional community. You'll know an In the Trenches book not just by its cover, but by the author's fun, upbeat writing style. But don't be fooled by its down-to-earth approach and ample use of sidebars. In the Trenches books are authoritative and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject.

Capital Campaigns: Everything You Need to Know (In the Trenches)

Raise More Money from Your Business Community: A Practical Guide to Tapping into Corporate Charitable Giving, is based on research and practical experience that will enable you to raise more money from your business community. You'll learn how businesses make decisions to give and the importance on learning "business speak." This book will help you: <ul>
<li>Overcome the "Willie Sutton Syndrome"</li> <li>Identify the types of businesses likely to give</li> <li>Communicate with business leaders in a more compelling manner</li> <li>Involve volunteers from the business world in your fundraising activities</li> <li>Understand why businesses support their local communities and why some organizations are successful in their approaches to businesses and others are not.</li> <li>Reach beyond event sponsorship as a way to involve the business community.</li> <li>Understand the corporate/foundation relations fallacy and why it often does not work.</li> <li>Learn the secrets used by successful nonprofits when asking for money from businesses.</li> <li>Involve your board members in developing their business network for your organization.</li> <li>Plan an annual business appeal.</li> </ul>
You'll learn why a business appeal can boost all your fundraising efforts, even though statistics who that only 5 percent of philanthropy comes from the business sector. Successfully reaching business donors can help you raise money from individuals, gain corporate volunteers, and raise awareness of your organization. Chapters include: <ul>
<li>Corporate Philanthropy: Does It Exist?</li> <li>How Businesses and Corporations Give</li> <li>What's Happening in the World of Corporate Philanthropy?</li> <li>Why Businesses and Corporations Give</li> <li>Getting Started: Identifying Business Prospects</li> <li>Getting Started: Cultivation Strategies</li> <li>Getting Started: Making the Ask</li> <li>Assuring the Future of Corporate Philanthropy: The Nonprofit Role</li> <li>Assuring the Future of Corporate Philanthropy: The Corporate Role</li> </ul>
The companion workbook, Raise More Money from Your Business Community — The Workbook, provides practical tools to help you succeed in raising money from your local business community right away. You will learn to take the principles and tactics you learned in the book and put them to immediate use to help you raise more money from your business community now. If you are serious about stepping up your game when it comes to raising money from your business community, then you'll want to get both the book and the workbook, in this money-saving bundle. About the In the Trenches™ Series This book is part of the In the Trenches series published by CharityChannel Press, the book-publishing project of the CharityChannel professional community. You’ll know an In the Trenches book not just by its cover, but by the author’s fun, upbeat writing style. But don’t be fooled by their down-to-earth approach and ample use of sidebars. In the Trenches books are authoritative and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject.

Raise More Money from Your Business Community: A Practical Guide to Tapping Into Corporate Charitable Giving

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 aware that she is on holy ground. She is drawn into the tree where she traces her entire matriarchal lineage, witnesses the strength and power of her ancestors and develops a great appreciation for the gifts she has received from each of them.

The Matriarch

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

lulu.com

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 aware that she is on holy ground. She is drawn into the tree where she traces her entire matriarchal lineage, witnesses the strength and power of her ancestors and develops a great appreciation for the gifts she has received from each of them.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Are you a staff member, a board member or a volunteer of a faith-based, human service, arts, or other nonprofit organization that needs additional funds to accomplish its mission? Are there not enough hours in the day to raise the money your agency needs? Do your colleagues not have the expertise or interest to generate the needed dollars? Do you need a quick source of practical information about ways to raise funds? Then you need The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook.
This book is for individuals who are dedicated to helping their communities but who need useful recommendations on how to raise money. Written by two of America's foremost fundraising experts, you will learn how to: 
<ul>
<li>Develop a clear, efficient fundraising plan.</li>
<li>Ask for contributions from individuals.</li>
<li>Target businesses, foundations, and government agencies.</li>
<li>Hold special events.</li>
<li>Conduct a Capital Campaign.</li>
<li>And lots more!</li>
</ul>
How many times has a well-meaning board member suggested that you do a golf tournament (gala dinner dance, art auction, walkathon) because the Girl Scouts (local hospital, Rotarians, PBA) scored big with theirs--only no one has any experience with such an event?
With The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook, you'll learn exactly what to do, step by step, to pull off a successful event of any kind or size, or to raise badly needed funds in a wide variety of other ways.

The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook: Getting the Money You Need from Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals

Sand, Michael A.

Weiser

See This Christ

Religion & Spirituality

Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? Assessing Your Organization’s Ability to Run a Major Fundraising Campaign is a practical workbook that does what many organizations pay thousands of dollars to have a consultant do for them. If you are considering a capital campaign, it is wise to engage fundraising counsel to formally assess your organization’s readiness and the community’s readiness for your campaign. But this book takes you through the first steps of the assessment, and often you can correct many of your shortcomings before engaging a consultant to help you get ready for a campaign, saving you time and money. This workbook will help you assess: <ul>
<li>
Whether you have a donor prospect pool for major campaign gifts. </li> <li> Whether you have planned adequately for the campaign. </li> <li> Whether your board is willing to step up to support the campaign. </li> <li> Whether your staff has sufficient time to devote to the campaign. </li> <li> Whether you have the right policies and procedures in place. </li> <li> Whether your community is ready for the campaign. </li> <li> How well your software system can manage a campaign. </li> </ul>
Perhaps your board and executive staff think you’re ready to launch a campaign, but you suspect otherwise. This book provides exercises you can do as a group to help you get ready for what will, most likely, be the biggest fundraising effort your organization has done up to this point. Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? can help you raise the sights of your entire organization to raise more money than you ever dreamed possible. You will learn what the key ingredients of a successful campaign are and how to make sure your organization has these ingredients in its toolbox before you launch a campaign that could fail because you didn't plan adequately. Once you’ve determined that you are ready or can get ready without a major overhaul of your development program, buy the companion book, Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know, also by Linda Lysakowski, to help you plan for a successful campaign. This workbook is part of the popular CharityChannel In the Trenches series. You'll know In the Trenches books, workbooks and manuals not just by their covers, but by their authors' fun, upbeat writing style. But don't be fooled by their down-to-earth approach and ample use of sidebars. In the Trenches books are authoritative and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject.

Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign?: Assessing Your Nonprofit’s Ability to Run a Major Fundraising Campaign

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Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy?

Fundraising for the Genius: The Only Book You LL Ever Need to Raise More Money and Support for Your Nonprofit Organization

YOU and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community

Capital Campaigns: Everything You Need to Know (In the Trenches)

Raise More Money from Your Business Community: A Practical Guide to Tapping Into Corporate Charitable Giving

The Matriarch

The Matriarch

The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook: Getting the Money You Need from Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals

See This Christ

Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign?: Assessing Your Nonprofit’s Ability to Run a Major Fundraising Campaign