The Everything Fundraising Book

Create a Strategy, Plan Events, Increase Visibility, and Raise the Money You Need

Richard Mintzer, Sam Friedman

• Publisher: Everything
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9781580629539
• eBook ISBN:
  9781440522635
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Everything Fundraising Book makes fundraising easy with step-by-step instruction and advice from the experts. Whether you are a community volunteer or a professional fundraiser, this clear and practical guide shows you exactly how to set goals, create a plan, and tap into a financial goldmine of corporate and government endowments.
Features timely information on how to:

• budget your fundraiser and cover expenses
• attract and work with volunteers
• choose and organize campaigns and events
• use corporate fundraisers to increase visibility
• pitch to reluctant donors and sponsors
• and more!

Experienced fundraisers Rich Mintzer and Sam Friedman walk you through the process and help you avoid the pitfalls, so you can focus all your energy on reaching your fundraising goals.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Top Ten Fundraising Tips You Will Learn from This Book
• Introduction
• 1 - Fundraising Basics
• 2 - Selecting the Fundraiser for You
• 3 - Getting Started
• 4 - Where and When? The Details of Your Fundraiser
• 5 - Organizing the Troops
• 6 - The Big Bucks
• 7 - Honing Your Skills for Effective Fundraising
• 8 - A Lesson in Ethics
• 9 - Communications Tools and Practices
• 10 - Spreading the Word!
• 11 - Corporate Fundraising
• 12 - Community Fundraising
• 13 - Grassroots Fundraising
• 14 - Fundraising with Kids and Teens
• 15 - Political Fundraising
• 16 - Odds and Ends
• 17 - All about Grants
• 18 - Grant Writing
• 19 - Taxes and Accounting
• 20 - Measuring Success
• Appendix A - Fundraising Resources
• Appendix B - PBS: Thirty Years of Successful Fundraising
• Index