Do you want to raise more money for your nonprofit and learn practical ways to ask for meetings, build relationships, and close major gifts?
Whether you’re a senior nonprofit leader or it’s your first job as a fundraiser, Fundraiser’s Companion – A Reference to Demystify Major Gifts and the Fundraising Process is a friendly guide for your journey. This book brings the fundraising cycle to life and addresses the stressful realities of raising money for your nonprofit mission. You’ll find time-tested tips, templates, and scripts from which to select the most authentic, comfortable next steps with your supporters.
With nearly thirty years in nonprofit fundraising and management, my real-life examples and useful resources are for anyone involved in raising funds, including: major gift officers, directors of development, executive directors and CEOs, program managers and directors, grant and proposal writers, annual giving and membership departments, prospect researchers and database managers, donor relations teams, planned giving officers, grants management and finance staff, volunteers and board members, and coordinators and support staff.
This book is important to me because I’ve long wanted to break down barriers to understanding fundraising and demystify it for others. In this way we can all raise more money for our cherished causes, which in the end means a healthier, more sustainable, and far more compassionate world.
In these ten stories set before, during and after the water wars between the sophisticated City of Los Angeles and the rural underdogs from the Owens Valley, the characters want one thing — to survive. Here are swashbuckling, daring and undisciplined explorers and miners, a former prisoner at a World War II relocation camp, abused and displaced Native Americans, and even one very ancient tree, brought together across time and terrain to tell their tales. Cover This Country Like Snow evokes the Wild West in its adventure, heroism and majestic mountain vistas. But where land and water are involved, so too is cowardice, greed and the violent ambitions of humanity to harness the power of nature — at any cost.
I intend this book for anyone who is interested in companion animals or remembering one. From dogs and cats, birds, rabbits, rats, and hamsters, to snakes, lizards, and fish, companion animals bring solace, calm, excitement, and often, hilarity and enjoyment, to our lives. Any book about losing your best friend must also be about the lessons in humility and acceptance that we learn through caring for a sentient being that is so in tune with our every need and emotion. Through this book I seek to illuminate what it takes to train and provide a safe home for a rescue dog, and how challenging and often humorous – usually in hindsight – the task. But I also aim to help anyone who is coping with the immense loss of their beloved animal through a short, easy-to-digest collection of vignettes about our phenomenal, and frustrating mixed-breed rescue dog, Connor. I wrote this book because his life, his impact on so many of my friends and family, and his soul are deserving of his own volume. I wrote about Connor to grieve him and get through the pain. I am still grieving, I am not “over it” and I am not sure I ever will be. I hope that reading about Connor affirms the value of animals in your life as well as the love they bequeath to us when they die. It is this priceless relationship between humans and our animals that teaches us how to bridge cultures and connect to one another, even when we have different value systems and expectations. Soft luxuriant fur helps.