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[Recommended Book]

Ask, The: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for Any Purpose

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Average: 2.7 (3 votes)
By Laura Fredricks
Fredericks is one of today's top major gift fundraisers, always worth a read.
 
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The Ask is a complete resource for teaching anyone—experienced in fundraising or not—how to ask individuals, in person, for a contribution to for a local nonprofit or a special event or community project, an enhanced annual gift, a major or planned gift, or a challenging capital campaign gift. Written by fundraising expert Laura Fredricks, The Ask shows what it takes to prepare yourself and others to make an effective ask and includes over one hundred sample dialogues you can use and adapt. Step by step, the book reveals how to listen, what to say, and how to follow up on each and every ask until you receive a solid and definitive answer.  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer

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By Joanne Oppelt, MHA, GPC
A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding

Do you want to tap into grant funding? Do you have responsibility to increase donations through foundation, corporate or government funders? Do you want to increase your acceptance rate?  Read more



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Foundation Prospects Grid Worksheet

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A foundation prospect worksheet for organizing and tracking foundation prospects, guidelines and deadlines.  Read more


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[Recommended Book]

Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals

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By Mary Hall & Susan Howlett
Compete Successfully for Shrinking Funding Dollars

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In the existing climate of increased competition for reduced funding dollars, writing a winning grant proposal is essential.

Get the answers to your most troublesome questions. Drawing on over 60 years of experience in the field, authors Dr. Mary Hall, and Susan Howlett take you step by step, through this complex and sometimes frustrating process. Everything is covered, from current trends in funding to all the nuts and bolts necessary for writing a successful proposal.

By illustrating points with clear examples, incorporating checklists, a teaching guide for instructors, and other useful tools to keep you on track, the 4th Edition of Getting Funded continues to be the definitive reference on writing grant proposals available today.  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Mega Gifts: 2nd Edition, Revised & Updated

2.25
Average: 2.3 (4 votes)
By Jerry Panas
Panas interviews major donors and explores their motivation for giving — a real eye-opener!

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How do you top what is said to be the greatest selling fundraising book of all time?

How do you improve upon Mega Gifts, a book CASE Currents magazine called 'the most important fundraising book' written?

How do you, as Emeril Lagasse would say, 'kick it up a notch?" Jerold Panas knows how.  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Nonprofit Essentials: Major Gifts

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Average: 2 (3 votes)
By Julia Ingraham Walker
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Part of the AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series, Nonprofit Essentials: Major Gifts is a professional guide to major gift fundraising, concisely presented in a format that is accessible, lively, and easy-to-read.

With in-depth advice from experienced fundraiser Julia Walker, this book takes the reader from the early stages of establishing a program through the core elements of all major gift programs: identifying and rating prospects; preparing the case; training volunteers; cultivating donors; making the ask; and providing recognition and stewardship for the gift.   Read more



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Project Budget Worksheet for Endowment Expenditures

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A worksheet to use for setting up the endowment budget for expenditures.  Read more


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[Tutorial]

Proposals That Get the Grant

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By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
CAPITAL VENTURE CEO/President

Powerpoint presentation.  Read more



[Services]

Prospect Research & Proposal Development (Grantwriting)

Prospect Research is the process of identifying, qualifying and involving prospective donors for your organization. Fundraising for major gifts starts from the top down, always starting with those closest to your organization and those with the most potential.  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising

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Average: 1 (2 votes)
By Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl presents a new way to look at grant seeking and offers practical suggestions for improving your odds with funders.

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Grantwriters often have little or no training in the practical task of grantseeking. Many feel intimidated by the act of writing, and some don't enjoy writing. In Storytelling for Grantseekers, Second Edition, Cheryl Clarke presents an organic approach to grantseeking, one that views the process through the lens of the pleasures and rewards of crafting a good story. Grantseekers who approach the process as one in which they are connecting with an audience (grantmakers) and writing a narrative (complete with settings, characters, antagonists and resolutions) find greater success with funders. The writing process becomes a rewarding way to tell the organization's tale, rather than a chore, and their passion and creativity lead to winning proposals.  Read more



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