Nonprofit Quick Guide

Are you a fundraiser who wants to be happy and appreciated in your job? Who wants to earn more money? Would you like to branch out into a fundraising specialty, maybe move up or move on to a new organization? Or, try your hand at consulting? If so, we've written How to Advance in Your Fundraising Career just for you! In this fast-reading book, we show you: • What options are available in fundraising • How certification can help you in your career • Three quick steps to set you on the path to achieve your fundraising goals How to Advance in Your Fundraising Career is written for busy development professionals who want to move ahead in their career and find the exact fit for them. A Nonprofit Quick Guide™, you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money. The authors help you: • Find ways to get the education and training you need to advance in the field • Understand how certification can help you land a job, get paid more, and feel good about your accomplishments • Decide when it is time to move up, move one, or consider consulting • Find the professional associations and networking opportunities that can help you achieve success • Create your own personal plan for success You will learn how to assess your strengths and educate yourself in fundraising techniques and philosophy. You will get insights into how professional organizations can help you grow and make helpful contacts. You will be shown techniques that the authors used to succeed in their development professions and in consulting. You will be given the tools to set goals that are the right goals for you and make sure you are in that ideal job. Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide series, How to Advance in Your Fundraising Career focuses on the three steps too success-learning, getting involved, and setting goals. Other books in this series address other areas of fundraising such as development planning, grant writing, corporate contributions, fundraising communications, board membership, volunteerism, and finding and retaining new donors, among others. If you want to grow revenues to keep up with increasing costs, improve financial performance and stability, or have greater ability to meet unmet or growing client demand, the Nonprofit Quick Guide series is for you.

Are you frustrated that no matter what you do, your nonprofit never gets financially ahead? Are you trying to grow your revenues, but your donor base keeps shrinking? Are you recovering from a bad financial situation? Are you attempting to build up reserves so that you can continue core services even when funding cuts come? Do you dream of financial sustainability? If so, we've written Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth just for you! In this fast-reading book, we show you: • How to rebuild trust after funding and staff cuts • How to budget for growth • A new fundraising paradigm that leads to success • How to implement surprising, cost-efficient techniques that can double your fundraising income Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to grow their missions by increasing their annual grant income. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide™, you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money. The authors help you: • Find new donors • Keep existing donors • Create a fundraising organizational culture You will learn how to think about fundraising and recover after a decline, You will see how to analyze budget performance, effective techniques to ensure a net surplus, and what to do to reach a healthy financial position. You will know how to motivate other people to fundraise for you. We wrap up the book by reviewing the path to sustainability. Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide series, Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth focuses on creating financial sustainability through intense dedication to mission and shrewd financial management. Other books in the series address other areas of fundraising, such as development planning, donor acquisition and retention, corporate contributions, fundraising communications, board membership, volunteerism, and career advancement, among others. If you want to grow revenues to keep up with increasing costs, improve financial performance and stability, or have greater ability to meet or grow client demand, the Nonprofit Quick Guide series is for you.

If you want to increase your chances for getting donations from business, know how much support you can ask for from the business community, get the most amount of donations as you can, and keep getting those donations year after year, then Best-Kept Secrets to Engaging and Retaining Business Donors is for you. The authors reveal how to develop profitable business giving relationships, explain the value that your nonprofit has to offer in language businesses professionals best comprehend, and relate to them from a position of strength, furthering your nonprofit's ability to pursue even more resources. Best-Kept Secrets to Engaging and Retaining Business Donors is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to increase donations from businesses. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide™, it is designed to be read in one sitting or to grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money. The authors help you: • Increase awareness of your nonprofit among the business community, • Strengthen your relationships with the business professionals, • Demonstrate the monetary value your organization brings to the business, • Approach business executives in ways that make a lasting impression, and • Ensure giving again and again. You will gain insights into how businesses professionals think and how you can leverage those motivations. You will learn how to position your nonprofit for large donations. You will be shown techniques that will maximize the time and effort you spend pursuing business donations, getting the most out of your donor recruitment and retention dollars. By the end of the book, you will be able to develop relationships that increase your fundraising results, garnering more resources to implement your agency's mission and better serve the community. Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide™ series, Best-Kept Secrets to Engaging and Retaining Business Donors focuses on getting the most out of your relationships with business donors. Other books in the series address other fundraising topics such as development planning, grant writing, individual donor recruitment and retention, developing community support, board membership, volunteerism, and career advancement, among others.

Do you spend most of your day putting out fires? Is your staff all on the same page? Do you want your nonprofit to move forward and grow? Then you need to make or update your strategic plan. A good strategic plan pinpoints where your nonprofit is now, sets goals for where you want to go, and outlines how to get you there. More than a document sitting in your computer, a well-written strategic plan gives you direction, unites your organization, and gets your nonprofit to where you want it to be. So, how do you get started with strategic planning? How to Run a Strategic Planning Retreat gives you a step-by-step blueprint for running a productive strategic planning retreat that gives you results. Find out how to overcome the objections, "We did that three or four years ago, and nothing changed" or "We're too busy putting out fires to waste time planning." Learn who needs to be involved in the planning. Find out how to structure an effective plan. See how you implement your plan so that your agency moves ahead. How to Run a Strategic Planning Retreat will help you: • Best prepare to plan so that you get the most out of the strategic planning experience • Identify the key stakeholders who should be involved in your retreat • Structure the retreat so that it is productive and leads to real change • Structure the plan so that it gets implemented If you don't know where you're going, you'll be sure to get there. Have a destination. Create a strategic plan. The first step in planning a retreat. In this book, we dive into the mechanics of planning that retreat(s). Contents Chapter One: A Word About Strategic Planning Chapter Two: Planning to Plan Chapter Three: Who Should Attend the Planning Retreat? Chapter Four: Where and When Should You Hold the Retreat? Chapter Five: Setting the Agenda Chapter Six: Who Facilitates the Retreat? Chapter Seven: Confirming or Establishing Mission, Vision, and Values Chapter Eight: Setting Goals Chapter Nine: Brainstorming Chapter Ten: After the Retreat Chapter Eleven: Bringing It All Together How to Run a Strategic Planning Retreat is written for busy nonprofit executive directors and board members who want to run a successful strategic planning retreat. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide™, you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement.

How does your nonprofit organization's fundraising team approach the business community for support? Sadly, for many organizations, the answer is, "We don't!" For others, it is seeking sponsorship of their events. Some apply for corporate foundation grants. Or perhaps they call their local businesses when they need gifts-in-kind or maybe for a gift certificate for their silent auction. Some have even joined their local chamber of commerce, gotten the mailing list, and sent an initial letter to member businesses asking for donations (horrors!). What's wrong with all these methods? In How to Run an Annual Business Appeal, you will find out the pros and cons of these approaches, and how you can be much more effective with your business fundraising by running a volunteer-driven annual business campaign. We'll show you how to identify business prospects within your community, how to build relationships with business leaders who will serve as volunteers in a peer-to-peer fundraising appeal, and how to recruit, organize, work with, train, and retain these volunteers. So, grab this fast-reading book if you want to be more successful in approaching your business community. Summary Outline of Book: Chapter One: What Is the Best Way to Approach Businesses? Chapter Two: Finding Prospective Business Donors Chapter Three: How Do You Build Relationships with Business Leaders? Chapter Four: Organizing Your Annual Business Appeal Chapter Five: Organizing the Volunteer Structure Chapter Six: Finding and Recruiting Volunteers Chapter Seven: Making the Calls Chapter Eight: Reporting Chapter Nine: Bringing It All Together About the Nonprofit Quick Guide Series How to Run an Annual Business Appeal is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to run a successful annual business appeal. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide™, you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money.