Fund Raising and Public Relations
A Critical Analysis
Kathleen S. Kelly
- 552 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Fund Raising and Public Relations
A Critical Analysis
Kathleen S. Kelly
About This Book
This is the first scholarly work to place the function of fund raising within the field of public relations, redefining it as a specialization responsible for the management of communication between a charitable organization and its donor publics. Combining her academic interest in communication with her experience as a fund raiser, the author has produced one of the few critical studies on fund raising, challenging current perspectives and employing systems theory and the concept of organizational autonomy to lead to a new and different approach. Until now, fund raising has been an anomaly, without an academic home and with few general theories to guide practitioner behavior. This book theoretically grounds fund raising and develops a theory that provides a fuller understanding of one of the fastest growing occupations in the nonprofit sector.
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Chapter 1
An Overview of the Book1
- Are the underlying assumptions of current fund-raising principles valid, or are some of the more important ones misconceptions and “myths?”
- Is the relationship between a charitable organization and its donors one of benevolence, business, or pseudo-relations?
- How does fund raising contribute to organizational effectiveness?
- How and why do charitable organizations practice fund raising in different ways?
- How can fund raising be explained in a different way that would help us more fully understand the current fund-raising behavior of charitable organizations?