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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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