Obtaining the funding to maintain and grow library services and resources has always been a challenge. Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices brings together a wealth of information from public, academic, special, and school libraries who share their successful approaches to raising funds through a variety of traditional and "outside-the-box" methods:
Library development (cultivating donors)EndowmentsCorporate financingSpecial eventsFriends' groups and volunteersGrants, and more
Fundraising is critical in today's economic climate. Tips and ideas from this volume will help library professionals gain confidence to begin a fundraising program or improve their current fundraising activities.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Fundraising for Public Libraries with Author Events
- Chapter 2. Crazy Smart: Creative Approaches to Developing Your Donor Pipeline and Increasing Support
- Chapter 3. Selling Used Books to Generate Library Funds
- Chapter 4. Discovery Calls: Expanding Your Donor Base and Donor Pipeline for Future Library Support
- Chapter 5. The Campaign for Seattle’s Public Libraries: Buildings, Programs, and Endowment
- Chapter 6. Taking a Campaign Public: The Community Phase of the Campaign for Seattle’s Public Libraries
- Chapter 7. Strategies for Seeking External Funding in a Health Science Library
- Chapter 8. Developing the Potential of a Library’s Board
- Chapter 9. Quick Wins in Planned Giving for Libraries: Documenting Simple Bequests
- Chapter 10. Special Collections and Outreach
- Chapter 11. A Public Library’s Multifaceted Approach to Fundraising
- Chapter 12. Digital Philanthropy and Libraries
- Index
- About the Contributors
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