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Fund Raising Fundamentals: A Guide to Annual Giving for Professionals and Volunteers
by James M. Greenfield
A practical and valuable resource for fundraising professionals,
trustees, philanthropists, and nonprofit executives who aspire to raise
substantial monies for worthy causes. Provides proven methods and
techniques for running a successful annual giving campaign.
ISBN: 0471209872
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Hank Rosso's Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising
Edited by Eugene R. Tempel
This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic book in the
field provides a conceptual foundation for the fund raising profession.
Hank Rosso's Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising examines the
profession.s principles, strategies, and methods and is filled with
practical examples. Guided by the enduring philosophy of fund raising
master Henry A. Rosso, contributors explain the reasoning behind the
planning and selection of strategies for all fund raising activities,
including building your case for support, approaching donors, managing
campaigns, and demonstrating stewardship.
ISBN: 0787962562
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The Complete Book of Model Fundraising Letters
by Roland Kuniholm
This highly-rated book gives you 400 pages of ideas on great letters to funders, foundations, donors, groups, and businesses.
ISBN: 0133342026
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How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters
by Mal Warwick
For busy fundraisers, writing letters of appeal
can be confusing and laborious. Now, a guide from the nation's premier
letter-writing tutor—direct mail expert Mal Warwick—shows
fundraisers what makes the best letters work. Whether its general
advice about the most effective mail strategies, or specific advice for
those interested in the details of a direct mail campaign, Warwick
keeps fundraisers on track when he reminds: "You're writing for
results—not a Pulitzer Prize."
ISBN: 078795652X
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Fundraising on the Internet: The ePhilanthropyFoundation.org's Guide to Success Online, 2nd Edition
by Mal Warwick
Here's an online review of this text: A
fantastic collection of resources! Warwick brought together an amazing
array of experts to assemble a practical, hands-on book full of
interesting case examples. As an application service provider working
almost exclusively with non-profits, we found the book particularly
useful as a source book for guidelines and best practices. This is an
all-encompassing, basic guide that makes fundraising on the Internet
accessible to the most inexperienced nonprofits but gives insightful
advice to veterans. I wholeheartedly recommend the book
ISBN: 0787960454
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The Fundraising Planner : A Working Model for Raising the Dollars You Need
by Terry Schaff and Doug Schaff
Missed deadlines and forgotten follow-ups are a thing of the past with
these guided exercises for creating campaigns that bring in the funds
nonprofit groups need, when they need them. This plan covers everything
from recruiting volunteers to writing mailings, cultivating prospects,
targeting financial goals, launching fundraising efforts, and
monitoring their progress
ISBN: 0787944351
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Fundraising For Dummies®
by John Mutz and Katherine Murray
Fundraisers, here are the tricks that get the cash! Fundraising For
Dummies is the complete, fun-to-read guide to the art and science of
raising money for nonprofit endeavors, from Little League to big
foundations.
ISBN: 0764552201 |
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Winning Grants Step by Step
by Mim Carlson
This text is the definitive guide to writing persuasive and successful
proposals. In easy-to-understand terms, Mim Carlson leads you through
creating a proposal--from start to finish--that fulfills the three most
important criteria grantmakers demand from a competitive proposal: a
clearly stated purpose describing what your organization is trying to
achieve, compelling evidence that demonstrates the importance of this
goal, and a well-reasoned plan that outlines how your organization will
meet the goal in a cost-effective manner. And, once the workbook
exercises are completed, your organization will have a fully developed
grant proposal. This revised and updated edition includes new examples
and sample budgets that reflect the reality of today's nonprofit
funding environment. It also offers guidance on using the Internet to
research funders, current information on preparing and submitting
proposals, and advice on building relationships with funders. The
companion CD-ROM contains winning sample proposals from real
organizations as well as blank worksheets that guide you though the
proposal-writing process.
ISBN: 0787901180 |
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I'll Grant You That : A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Funds, Designing Winning Projects, and Writing Powerful Grant Proposals
by Jim Burke & Carol Ann Prater
Part book, part CD-ROM, I'll Grant You That is an all-in-one resource for finding funds, designing winning projects, and writing powerful proposals.
ISBN: 0325001979 |
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Grant Winner's Toolkit : Project Management and Evaluation
by James Aaron Quick & Cheryl Carter New
As anyone with a history in nonprofit management knows, a grant
recipient’s job is far from over once the check is cut.
That’s just when the real work begins. Especially now, when
funders are taking a more active role in seeing that their money makes
the desired impact, it is vitally important to the future of your
mission that the programs under your stewardship succeed, beyond even
your own expectations. Grant Winner’s Toolkit
can help make that happen. Based on their own experiences and the
experiences of hundreds of nonprofit managers nationwide, authors James
Quick and Cheryl New provide expert advice and guidance on managing
every aspect of your funded projects with the consummate
professionalism demanded by your funders—from the drafting of
strategies and action plans to the drawing up of budgets, from staff
recruitment and team building, all the way through to the writing of
the next grant proposal. They also arm you with an extensive arsenal of
forms, checklists, time sheets, practice exercises, and other valuable
tools that will help you to successfully:
ISBN: 0471332453 |
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Grant Writing : Strategies for Developing Winning Proposals
by Patrick Miller
A great text designed to walk the funding seeker through the major
phases of grant development. This book represents more than nine years
of ideas and techniques used in the development of grant proposals. It
includes seven chapters with more than 50 exhibits. A series of review
questions and exercises are presented at the end of each chapter to
reinforce the readers' learning. Exercises in this book were developed
to teach proposal writing and budget development skills to new and
experienced grant writers. The book also includes a glossary, selected
funding resources, and comprehensive review questions.
ISBN: 096732792X |
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Finding Funding: The Comprehensive Guide to Grant Writing (2002 edition)
by Daniel Barber
The essential "How-To" resource for finding funding from government,
foundations, and corporations is now bigger and better. This new
edition builds on the basics that have helped thousands of individuals,
community based and nonprofit organizations, schools and government
prepare winning grant proposals. This book includes a full glossary of
terms and a computer diskette with hundreds of funding sources, sample
letters, budgets and templates for every element of a grant proposal.
ISBN: 0963809113 |
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High Impact Philanthropy : How Donors, Boards, and Nonprofit Organizations Can Transform Communities
by Kay Sprinkel Grace & Alan L. Wendroff
A definitive text about transformational philanthropy in the 21st
century. A guide for nonprofit organizations, their staff leaders,
their board members, other volunteers, and the nonprofit
donor-investor. Includes eight main ideas of philanthropy, including
solid strategies for traditional major gifts programs to make them
transformational.
ISBN: 0471369187 |
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How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools
by Stanley Levenson
Easy to follow tips and suggestions to help teachers, principals,
parents, school board members, district-level administrators, and
others to successfully tap into the vast array of funding opportunities
that are out there for the asking. Packed with helpful ideas and
techniques to make schools and school districts more competitive in
their search for corporate, foundation and government grants. You'll
receive an overview of the types of grants that are currently
available, as well as the names and web site addresses of major funding
agencies interested in funding public school programs. A sampling of
large and small successful grant applications is included providing
models that are helpful for the beginning grant writer.
ISBN: 0205308872 |
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Building Your Endowment
by Edward C. Schumacher
As nonprofit organizations struggle to raise money to cover the cost of
their immediate needs and ongoing operating expenses, more and more
nonprofits are learning that one key to stabilizing their financial
situation is to build endowment. This practical workbook will help you
put in place the last component of a comprehensive development
office— an endowment program. Building Your Endowment gives
development professionals, executive directors, consultants, and
volunteers the information needed to understand and implement an
endowment program that will get bottom-line results.
ISBN: 0787960101 |
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