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Title: Fundraising for Dummies by John Mutz, Katherine Murray ISBN: 0-7645-5220-1 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 08 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Basic strategy, thorough and complete
Comment: This book is another fine work by the folks at "For Dummies" - It is a great, basic strategy guide to fundraising. Beginners will find this book useful in all aspects of thier fundraising start-up and operation. It includes great tips on organizing your operation and making it grow.
When I wrote "25 Fundraising Secrets - Raise More Money, Guaranteed," I intended it to be a compilation of strategic stips and "secrets" to fundraising for political campaigns, charities and non-profits. "Fundraising for Dummies" provides an excelent companion to my book by giving you step-by step fundraising instructions to get you started, before you move into the secrets that help you expand and succeed.
Rating: 3
Summary: There are better books
Comment: I have been in fundraising for years and am always looking for additional resources. While the "Dummies" series are good generally, fundraising is too important to be treated superficially.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book, but watch the legal & tax advice!
Comment: In case you've been trapped on a desert island for the past several years, IDG books has been publishing "Dummies"-themed books on every subject under the sun and moon, from Windows 2000 to sex. Fundraising for Dummies is a typically informative, easy-to-read, and useful guide to fundraising for nonprofit organizations.
With 28 chapters in five parts and appendices of checklists and how-tos, the book has loads of information for novice and intermediate fundraisers alike. In fact, it's also a pretty good reference for board members and volunteers involved in fundraising activities.
There is a chapter devoted to predictions on the future of philanthropy in the U.S., with one-paragraph explanations of brief statements, such as "E-giving Will Grow." Most of these predictions are obvious to nonprofit-sector experts (and especially those of us who participate on CharityChannel!). However, I must admit to being intrigued by the idea that "Nonprofits Will Rule!", meaning that, as more for-profits become regional and national in scope, local nonprofits will assume increasing local community leadership influence.
As good as this volume is in its general approaches and many helpful tips and techniques, do not mistake this book for a thorough treatment of the subject or any of its components. I was alarmed by its breezy assertion that nonprofit board service
"...is not as risky as serving on a for-profit board. Nonprofit board members are protected personally from liability in any legal action against their charitable organization..."
Haven't the authors heard of the IRS and Intermediate Sanctions? And, since nonprofit corporations are state-chartered (like their for-profit brethren), wouldn't liability vary from state to state, as well as depending on the facts and circumstances of each case? I would imagine that the D&O liability insurers would like to address this before the second printing!
One benefit of this book I found is one which I'm not sure is intentional. Grant writing is given short coverage in the appropriately-numbered Chapter 13 of the book, thereby providing two subtle reminders that grants are but a minor part of fundraising success.
Any reader interested in the subject will learn much from this book, as long as they don't take its accounting and legal advice too literally.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1 -- Gearing Up to Raise Funds
Part 2 -- Getting to Know Your Donor
Part 3 -- Using Your Fundraising Tools
Part 4 -- On the (Fundraising) Campaign Trail
Part 5 -- The Part of Tens
Index
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Title: Grant Writing for Dummies by Beverly A. Browning ISBN: 0764553070 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters by Mal Warwick ISBN: 078795652X Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Nonprofit Kit for Dummies (With CD-ROM) by Stan Hutton, Frances Phillips ISBN: 076455347X Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: 25 Fundraising Secrets by Joe Garecht, Brent Barksdale ISBN: 1591960622 Publisher: Fundcraft Publishing Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Fundraising for Nonprofits : How to Build a Community Partnership by P. Burke Keegan ISBN: 0062732056 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 13 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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