Author: Martin Teitel
Publisher: Emerson & Church Publishers
Keywords: reveals, happens, director, foundation, proposal, submitting
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102253
ISBN-13: 9781889102252

In barely a whisper, the head of the foundation leans over and furtively says, Let me tell you how this really works. Then he divulges, from A to Z, what happens behind closed doors when a proposal is considered for funding. That would be Martin Teitel, a 30-year veteran of the foundation world and head of the Cedar Tree Foundation in Boston. His book, Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next, took a measure of courage to write. You don’t pull back the curtains of the inner sanctum without incurring your colleagues wrath. For anyone submitti

Author: Tom Ahern
Publisher: Emerson & Church Publishers
Keywords: giving, planned, program, capital, campaign, drive, annual, eyes, donor, persuasive, case, everything, seeing
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102342
ISBN-13: 9781889102344

Why should I give you my hard-earned money?Effective fundraisers answer this essential question every time they ask for a gift. What’s their secret to success? They have a winning case for support.As Tom Ahern makes clear in his new book, Seeing through a Donor s Eyes, a case isn t some fancy argument you only develop for capital campaigns, when you’re chasing millions.Successful donor newsletters, websites, annual reports, donor acquisition programs, email, direct mail, advertising, planned giving programs, and, yes, capital campaigns, too all have one thing in common: behind each

Author: Kay Sprinkel Grace
Publisher: Emerson & Church Publishers
Keywords: book, member, board, ultimate
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102393
ISBN-13: 9781889102399

Here is a book for all nonprofit boards. Those wanting to operate with maximum effectiveness; those needing to clarify exactly what their job is; and those wanting to ensure that all members - novice and veteran alike - are on the same page with respect to roles and responsibilities.The Ultimate Board Member’s Book takes only 60 minutes to read, yet it provides a solid command of just what board members must do to help their organization succeed.It’s all here in jargon-free language: how boards work, what the job entails, the time commitment, the role of staff, serving on committee

Author: Mal Warwick
Publisher: Emerson & Church Publishers
Keywords: raising, gifts, mail, guide, world, brief, real, mercifully
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2005-04-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102091
ISBN-13: 9781889102092

Whoever heard of raising $1,000 gifts (not to mention $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000 gifts) by mail? That’s the realm of face-to-face fundraising, right? Not exclusively, says Mal Warwick, in his book, The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Raising $1,000 Gifts by Mail. And Warwick should know. He’s spent the last decade perfecting the art of high dollar direct mail. Take just one mailing Warwick cites (he’s produced scores of them to draw from). Nearly $150,000 was raised from only 2,400 donors, many of whom had never given more than $100 to the organization sending

Author: David Lansdowne
Publisher: Emerson & Church Publishers
Keywords: raising, major, course, gifts, nonprofit, organizations, crash, revised, board, realities, member, face, fund, hour
Number of Pages: 109
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102326
ISBN-13: 9781889102320

After spending just one hour with Fund Raising Realities Every Board Member Must Face, among the Top Three bestselling fundraising books of all time, board members and volunteers will understand exactly what they need to do to raise major gifts. David Lansdowne has distilled the essence of big gifts fund raising, put it in the context of 47 "realities," and delivered it in gin clear prose. A perfect companion to Jerold Panas’ acclaimed book, Asking.

Author: Madeline Stanionis
Publisher: Emerson & Church
Keywords: thousands, tens, dollars, email, raising, guide, brief, real, world, mercifully
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2006-02-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102059
ISBN-13: 9781889102054

Generously dispensing advice, insider tips, and recommendations for which she usually commands tidy sums, Madeline Stanionis, President and Creative Director of Donordigital, reveals precisely what you need to do, step by step, to raise substantial money with email. And while it’s not as simple as sending hastily written emails every week or month, neither is it unduly complicated or time-consuming. At heart, raising thousands of dollars with email is all about building your list, using timing to your advantage, crafting a series of coherent messages, presenting your email in a visuall

Author: Jerold Panas
Publisher: Emerson & Church
Keywords: volunteers, staff, secure, gift, members, board, minute, guide, everything, asking
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 2009-02-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1889102350
ISBN-13: 9781889102351

It ranks right up there with public speaking. Nearly all of us fear it. And yet it’s critical to our success. Asking for money. It makes even the stout-hearted quiver. But now comes a book, Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Staff and Volunteers Must Know to Secure the Gift. And short of a medical elixir, it’s the next best thing for emboldening you, your board members and volunteers to ask with skill, finesse … and powerful results. Jerold Panas, who as a staff person, board member and volunteer has secured gifts ranging from $50 to $50 million, understands the