A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members
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A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members

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eBook - ePub

A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members

About this book

Everything you need to know as a nonprofit board member to raise more money and help your organization succeed in meeting its goals

Engaging and informative, this practical guide to fundraising contains valuable insights that nonprofit boards need to succeed in raising money in today's dynamic economic environment. While written expressly for board members, this useful handbook also provides advice to executive directors and advancement staff on how to partner with your board to build an unstoppable fundraising team.

A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members shows you how to raise more money by building board leadership and skills in fundraising. This book covers it all—the board's leadership role in fundraising; how to organize and train your board to raise funds; building a team with board and staff; raising funds for operations, major gifts and capital campaigns; how to ask for gifts; plus a guide for conducting a board retreat that will lead to fundraising success.

  • Demystifies the ask by providing a straightforward guide on how to ask for, and close, gifts
  • Features case studies, real life examples, and checklists in an easy to reference format
  • Offers sample materials for a board retreat on building the successful fundraising team
  • Also by Julia Ingraham Walker: Nonprofit Essentials: Jump-Starting the Stalled Fundraising Campaign

Entertaining, practical, and easy to use, this book will become a must-read for all board members, executive directors, and staff who want to build an effective fundraising team.

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Yes, you can access A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members by Julia I. Walker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Nonprofit Organizations & Charities. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wiley
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781118073568
eBook ISBN
9781118236437

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The AFP Fund Development Series
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. About the Author
  9. Chapter 1: Board Leadership in Fundraising
  10. Chapter 2: Setting the Pace with Board Giving
  11. Chapter 3: Getting Ready to Fundraise
  12. Chapter 4: Building the Team
  13. Chapter 5: The Annual Fund
  14. Chapter 6: Major Gifts and Mega-Gifts
  15. Chapter 7: How to Ask for and Close a Gift
  16. Chapter 8: Getting Ready for a Fundraising Campaign
  17. Chapter 9: Fundraising Campaigns
  18. Chapter 10: Additional Sources of Giving
  19. Appendix
  20. Glossary of Basic Fundraising Terms
  21. Index