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Fundraising for Social Change (Kim Klein's Chardon Press)

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Author: Kim Klein
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 5
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8 x 1.5

ISBN: 0787984558
Dewey Decimal Number: 361.70681
EAN: 9780787984557
ASIN: 0787984558

Publication Date: October 27, 2006
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Condition: VERY GOOD CONDITION

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Product Description
Since it was first published in 1988, iFundraising for Social Change/i has become one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the st1:country-region w:st="on"st1:place w:st="on"United States/st1:place/st1:country-region. Fundraising practitioners and activists rely on it for hands-on, specific, and accessible fundraising techniques, and it has become a required text in dozens of college courses around the country. This fifth edition offers the information that has made the book a classic: proven know-how on asking for money, planning and conducting major gifts campaigns, using direct mail effectively, and much more. The book has been significantly changed to include new technology#8212;e-mail, online giving, and blogs#8212;and contains expanded chapters on capital and endowment campaigns, how to feel comfortable asking for money, how to recruit a team of people to help with fundraising, and how to build meaningful relationships with donors. In addition, this essential resource contains new information on such timely topics as ethics, working across cultural lines, and how to create opportunities for fundraising more systematically and strategically.

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5 out of 5 stars

Fundaraising January 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I ordered the book for a class I'm taking. I find the book to be very interesting and it keeps my interest. Key points that I need to know are included in the text. Excellently written.

5 out of 5 stars

A Fundraising Startup Guide: The Nuts and Bolts to Building a Successful Fundraising Profit Center December 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

br /I love this book. It's been around for a while in one form or another. Currently it is in its 5th revision. And with each revision the author has refined it. As a result, it is very well written and outlined. It is also really good because the author is a fundraising practitioner and teaches what she does. She really knows her stuff when it comes to fundraising. At least that's the impression I get from reading her book.br /br /Fundraising at a nonprofit, whether large or small, is basically a profit center. It's a business! This book treats it as a business and has the feel of a startup guide for that business. As a SCORE volunteer believe me when I say this book has the feel of a startup guide; I've read my fair share of startup guides for for-profits and counseled enough wanta-be entrepreneurs on how to start a business. This book is a startup guide.br /br /So how is this book a startup guide? Well, it advocates preparing a written fundraising plan BEFORE you put together your fundraising office and start raising funds. It describes a "fundraising framework" that you must understand before you can prepare a sound and successful plan. Then it tells you about time-tested strategies for acquiring and keeping donors - the strategies that will enable your nonprofit to build a foundation or base of donors from which all successful fundraising will emanate. And next it tells you about the time-tested strategies for upgrading donors so they will (or can be expected to) give larger gifts as time moves forward. There are also sections that explain how to setup and manage a fundraising office, and how to prepare a budget and write a fundraising plan.br /br /The book could have stopped there. That's all that a startup really needs to know and do to be successful at raising sufficient funds to provide its services and distribute its products. However, the author tells us more. She talks about feasibility studies and capital campaigns. And she talks about actually being a professional fundraiser, and about special or unique circumstances where traditional fundraising methods don't always work well.br /br /I really have only one problem with this book. I would like it so much better if the author would change its title to something like - A Fundraising Startup Guide: The Nuts and Bolts to Building a Successful Fundraising Profit Center. I realize the author's background is in helping cash-strapped nonprofits that advocate social change, and that this book was initially created to help her help those organizations (and herself). But the book is not merely about nonprofits that advocate social change. And I wish the title would properly reflect what the book covers. 5 stars!

5 out of 5 stars

A book for higher education personal reading February 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The book's content is precise, to the point and not repetitive in hard to understand grammer. The context was really reliable for the course I am currently taking. The chapters are not long and drawn out yet the examples the author uses are up-to-date, on point and target. I truly liked this book because it is a great read outside of higher education.

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent and Proven Expertise in Fundraising March 9, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Kim Klein is a nationally known expert in the area of fundraising, and demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of fundraising in the book. She presents the information in an easy to understand format, and shares her expertise in a motivational manner. I highly recommend this book, even if you have been in fundraising for a number of years.

5 out of 5 stars

A must read for any progressive organization staff member December 13, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a must read for any staff member of a small not for profit organization. It's a bit freeky how she knows so much about my group, and then cuts to the chase on how to address the problems identified.

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