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Practical and Hard-Earned Fundraising Solutions That Charities of Any Size Can Use The Ultimate Fundraising Case Study is a raw, unfiltered, hold-nothing-back look into the grind of a real fundraising campaign. It makes no pie-in-the-sky promises about guaranteed fundraising success. Instead of fluff, you'll get 12 super-practical fundraising takeaways you can start using immediately. Each takeaway is based on the bruising experience of a truly grassroots...
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The transformational techniques shared here will build culture inside your team and organization. Learn how you can create a culture of joy at work; harness the power of story to connect with colleagues and donors; and raise your emotional intelligence quotient to maximize fundraising.
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Although leadership and management are seen as central to developing effective integrated working, there is relatively little thoughtful work analysing the relationship between the two sets of ideas. Until now. This updated edition of this essential textbook provides a robust guide to the leadership and management of interagency collaborative endeavours. It summarises recent trends in policy, establishes what we can learn from research and practice,...
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Philanthropy is a booming business, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to the social sector each year. Money Well Spent, an award-winning guide on how to structure philanthropy so that it really makes a difference, offers a comprehensive and crucial resource for individual donors, foundations, non-profits, and scholars who focus on and teach others about this realm. Behind every successful grant is a smart strategy. Paul Brest and Hal...
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Family foundations are a huge part of the American tradition of giving. But in this era of onerous regulations and media scrutiny, foundation philanthropy is trickier to navigate than ever before.
Complex family dynamics can combine to create a reality in which investing foundation assets becomes, confusing, stressful, and unrewarding. This experience should be gratifying and enjoyable for everyone involved-and it can be, with the right guidance,...
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A Practical Framework for Positive Social Change In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women's organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money. From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born. The organization became a major force for good in the world, embodying a new paradigm of philanthropy. In these pages, Murray shares her wisdom, offering guidelines...
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Innovation and Scaling for Impact forces us to reassess how social sector organizations create value. Drawing on a decade of research, Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair transcend widely held misconceptions, getting to the core of what a sound impact strategy entails in the nonprofit world. They reveal an overlooked nexus between investments that might not pan out (innovation) and expansion based on existing strengths (scaling). In the process, it...
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Accelerate Your Impact: 10 Ways to Fuel Your Nonprofit's Fundraising Engine has been crafted by experienced fundraising professionals for non-profit leaders to give them a look into the future of fundraising leadership. General Editor Trent Ricker and chapter contributors Gary Cole, Allison Lewis Lodhi, Tony Smercina, and Curt Swindoll explore the ins and outs of current best practices in fundraising. Included in its pages are practical ways to develop...
49) Corporate Social Investing: The Breakthrough Strategy for Giving & Getting Corporate Contributions
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Details a practical, 10-step plan that can create exciting new relationships between businesses and nonprofits. Weeden's plan could generate an additional $3 billion a year in corporate support for vital causes, improving quality of life for millions, while at the same time bolstering corporate profits. Offers essential advice for businesses planning their corporate social investing strategies and nonprofits seeking corporate support. Corporate philanthropy...
50) Crossing Borders - Sharing Journeys: Effective Capacity Building with Immigrant and Refugee Groups
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A growing number of nonprofit organizations have been created by immigrants and refugees to serve their communities in North America. These immigrant- and refugee-led organizations (IRLOs) work to provide services and meet a variety of needs, while at the same time building the infrastructure of these communities. Through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Innovation Fund, Fieldstone Alliance initiated the two-year project in January 2004....
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Starting out young and inexperienced, but with entrepreneurial inclinations and a desire to create opportunities for others who were less fortunate to improve their lives, Jim McClelland led Goodwill Industries in central Indiana for 41-years. During those four decades, the Indianapolis-based organization grew and evolved into a large, diversified social enterprise that employed over 3,000 people, two-thirds of them with barriers such as a significant...
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The Robin Hood Foundation is a charitable organization focused on alleviating problems caused by poverty in New York City. Michael M. Weinstein is the Foundation's senior vice president, and Ralph M. Bradburd was a long-time consultant. Together, they worked to develop a metric-based approach called 'relentless monetization,' which made sure the money they took in and granted out was used effectively and resulted in long-term change. In this book,...
53) Plan It!
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The Perfect Planning Guide for Book clubs! The African American author is often overworked, overlooked and underrated. That coupled with the closing of many bookstores, which had long been the gathering place for these authors, and the emergence of E-readers, has changed the way in which our writers and readers meet and converse. Though book clubs have long been a cornerstone of the African American community, at no other time in our history has it...
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Tyler Cowen is professor of economics at George Mason University. His books include Creative Destruction (Princeton) and Create Your Own Economy. He frequently writes for the New York Times, Slate, and the economics blog Marginal Revolution.
Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible--and such small portions! Americans typically either want to abolish the...
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• Everything a group needs, from first inspiration to closing night
• Makes the complexities of a theatrical production easy for a non-pro to master
• Filled with amusing, enlightening anecdotes from producers, directors, and players.
Stop fussing with bake sales and overpriced gift wrap! The real money in fundraising-and the real fun in fundraising-is in putting on a show. A theatrical show can raise significant sums and, at the same time,...
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Written by fundraising experts Tom Ahern and Simone Joyaux, Keep Your Donors is a new, winning guide to making disappointing donor retention rates a thing of the past. This practical and provocative book will show you how to master the strategies and tactics that make fundraising communications profitable. Filled with case studies and based in part on the CFRE and AFP job analyses, Keep Your Donors is your definitive guide to getting new donorsand...
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More than ever, businesses and organizations want to stand for something. They want to plant a flag in their community and work toward solving real problems. This goes beyond writing a check-it's about establishing an identity independent of your products and services, one that aligns with the values of both your customers and employees.
When you want to make an impact, the hard part is knowing how to get started.
That's where Rackspace found itself...
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In his path-breaking new book, Leading Out-of-the-Box Change: The Chief Executive's Essential Guide to Achieving Nonprofit Innovation and Growth, leadership expert Doug Eadie draws from his quarter century of experience working with nonprofit and public leaders to provide you with practical, thoroughly tested guidance for leading the kind of out-of-the-box change that is critical to your organization's long-range stability and growth. Doug describes...
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Les organisations internationales humanitaires (OIH), qu'elles soient intergouvernementales ou non gouvernementales, sont devenues un acteur incontournable des interventions à la suite de catastrophes naturelles ou de conflits armés. L'importance grandissante de leur rle dans la protection des civils s'explique notamment par la croissance du nombre de catastrophes dans les dernières décennies et par les incidences des conflits sur les populations.
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