Synopses & Reviews
Forget about the old misconception that fundraising is like "shaking a tin cup" at donors. Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment is a landmark book, a decade in the making! Written by world-renowned fundraising expert Kay Sprinkel Grace, it presents her core beliefs, principles, and strategies for developing long-term relationships with donor-investors and volunteers. Boards of trustees, non-board volunteers, and staff members from hundreds of nonprofit organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and western Europe have all taken something away from Kay's workshops. Now, Kay brings the insight of her signature seminars to you.
Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment is a user-friendly guide to help volunteers and staff members go beyond simply raising funds and:
- Believe in and practice fundraising as the culmination of a multi-step development process
- Involve and retain funders in a donor-investor relationship based on shared values, partnership, respect, and vision
Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment, Second Edition is packed with forms, checklists, and examples to help you better understand, visualize, and implement Kay's groundbreaking philosophy. Retaining the authoritative focus on values and mission-based philanthropy that is the cornerstone of this book's first edition, this revised Second Edition covers:
- The impact on planning of new requirements for accountability
- Streamlined, field-tested ideas regarding capital campaigns and feasibility studies
- New techniques for annual giving, including the latest Internet tools
- New ways to involve busy board members in development, fundraising, and other activities
- Philanthropic trends to anticipate, respond to, and benefit from in the twenty-first century
Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment, Second Edition is the essential guide for everyone who wants to bring innovation and investment to their communities!
Synopsis
The revised guide to creating a successful financial future and reinvigorated organization
Demands of donors for accountability, transparency, and results have changed the way nonprofit professionals must organize their work. Developed from the author s firsthand experience as a fundraising consultant and volunteer, Beyond Fundraising, Second Edition examines the stewardship tools available through the Internet, the impact of accountability on planning, streamlined ideas regarding capital campaigns and feasibility studies, new techniques for annual giving that recognize the impact of the Internet, and new ways to involve increasingly busy board members in organizations. Retaining its primary focus on values and mission-based philanthropy, and on other key tenets of Kay Sprinkel Grace s beliefs and practices, this new Second Edition will take readers through the next decade, complete with reliable forms, checklists, and flowcharts to help readers better understand, visualize, and incorporate this new philosophy into their own nonprofit organizations.
Kay Sprinkel Grace, CFRE (San Francisco, CA), is an internationally acclaimed independent consultant, speaker, facilitator, and writer. She has also been a core faculty member of the Fund Raising School since 1980.
Synopsis
Do you or your volunteers fear rejection or feel like a beggar when fundraising? Do you worry about soliciting donors too often? Are you tired of the relentless cycle of fundraising activities necessary to generate revenues for your programs?
Beyond Fundraising: New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment, Second Edition dispels these concerns and helps you:
- Learn how to position your organization in the community as a constructive, vital, and successful social investment
- Develop an investor relationship with donors and engage their values-based commitment capacity to make a difference in their communities
In this revised and updated Second Edition, fundraising expert Kay Sprinkel Grace presents her internationally field-tested core beliefs, principles, and strategies for developing long-term relationships with donor-investors and volunteers. Share in the wisdom and experience that have helped countless nonprofit organizations grow their base of support and go beyond fundraising into true donor and fund development.
About the Author
KAY SPRINKEL GRACE, CFRE, is an internationally acclaimed independent consultant, speaker, facilitator, and writer. After successful careers in journalism and education, she became a development professional in 1979, working in several organizations before starting her own consulting firm in 1987. Since then, she has worked as trainer or consultant to thousands of nonprofit volunteers and professionals in the areas of board and staff leadership, planning, and capital and annual fundraising. She is the author of Beyond Fund-Raising and the coauthor of High-Impact Philanthropy (both published by Wiley), as well as the author of The Ultimate Board Member's Book, Over Goal: What You Must Know to Excel at Fundraising Today, and Fundraising Mistakes That Bedevil All Boards (and Staff Too).
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition.
Introduction to the Second Edition.
Chapter 1. Values: The Context for Philanthropy, Development and Fund Raising.
Chapter 2. Putting Away the Tin Cup: Changed Attitude, Changed Practices.
Chapter 3. Preventing Mission Drift: The Leadership Imperative.
Chapter 4. Successful Development: Partnership and Process.
Chapter 5. Inviting Investment.
Chapter 6. Capitalizing The Community's Investment: Annual Campaigns.
Chapter 7. Capitalizing The Community's Investment, Part Two: Capital Campaigns.
Chapter 8. Stewardship: The Heart of The Development Process.
Chapter 9. Maximizing Board Development and Participation.
Chapter 10. The Power of Planning.
Chapter 11. beyond Fund Raising: Implementing the Principles.
Chapter 12. Afterward.
Index.