Grantwriting Books & Fundraising Books

Fundraising Books
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The Law of Fundraising
Bruce R. Hopkins; Hardcover; Buy New: $170.00

Book Description
Contains summaries of each state's Charitable Contribution Solicitation Act, the most important regulation impacting the fundraising practice and professionals within each state.
Written by one of the country's legal leading authorities on laws affecting tax-exempt organizations. In fundraising especially, Bruce Hopkins is truly one of the few legal experts. He is the leading legal authority in the nonprofit sector-he teaches at the University of Missouri, and he is a frequent lecturer and seminar leader across the country.

This core volume is supplemented annually to keep fundraising and nonprofit professionals on top of the latest legal developments.

Making a Difference: A Guide to Fundraising and Nonprofit Management
Mona Engvig; Paperback; Buy New: $12.95

Book Description
"Making a Difference" is an introduction to fundraising and nonprofit management. It gives a straight-forward description of how these entities are organized, and presents various techniques helpful in building and sustaining them. This book describes fundraising, marketing, public relations, and financial management. It has a practical hands-on approach, with examples of the techniques described

Approximately nine million people are employed by more than one million nonprofit organizations in the United States. Some work only in a specialized area, such as fundraising. This book gives them an opportunity to see how their own work complements that of the rest of the organization. Board members and volunteers, who often have much interest but little preparation for their important task, can use this book for self-study or for board development sessions. It will also be of interest to students in management programs, which often only covers management of f! or-profit entities.

The Fundraising Manual : A Step by Step Guide to Creating the Perfect Event
Micki Gordon; Spiral-bound; Buy New: $19.95

Book Description
This book will serve as an all in one resource guide for fundraising professionals and volunteers. In addition, it lists vendors, telephone numbers, fax numbers, philanthropy publications and lots more.

Library Fundraising: Models for Success
Dwight F. Burlingame; Paperback; Buy New: $30.00

Customer Review
This book is a useful fundraising resource for librarians, fundraisers, students, and volunteers. Any person needing basic information about library fundraising would find this book helpful. This book contains case studies that point out library trends in alternative funding and illustrate some successful fundraising campaigns used by a variety of academic and public libraries to raise needed resources. Fundraising activities that this book addresses include: annual programs, special events, capital campaigns, developing endowments and foundations, and challenge grants. These case studies are important to librarians because they point out both the successes and failures that have transpired with actual real-life fundraising endeavors. The chapter entitled "A Capital Campaign for a Small Public Library" is particularly valuable as it discusses five steps that are essential to any successful fundraising campaign and explains how to know if you need the help of a professional fundraiser. It also explains how to select a chairperson for the fundraising committee and provides a job description fo this position. The chapter also provides a list of four reasons why this capital campaign was successful. The book points out the importance of fundrasing for libraries and details ways to obtain information on the topic. The book contains a bibliography which could be used to locate additional readings on fundraising. This book is recommended for individuals needing information on library development programs.

Fundraising for Nonprofit Groups
Joyce Young; Paperback; Buy New: $16.95

Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Raising money is the most essential and also the most difficult task for any nonprofit organization. This book is a step-by-step guide for nonprofit groups that need to raise between $100,000 and $5 million annually.
Explaining in detail the process of fundraising, this comprehensive book has recently been expanded and updated to explore fundraising through telemarketing and the Internet. With new samples and examples, it tells you how to raise a lot more money for less effort, and answers the following questions:

- Who gives money to nonprofit organizations? - Which potential funder is best to approach for your organization? - How do you prepare a funding proposal? - What kind of direct mail requests will work and how do you prepare them? - Should your organization try telephone fundraising? How is it done?

Acquire the know-how to attract money in today’s highly competitive fundraising atmosphere. Let this book help your organization find the dollars to make this world a better place.

New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, Hispanic Philanthropy : Exploring the Factors That Influence Giving and Asking, No. 24 Summer 1999
Lilya Wagner; Paperback; Buy New: $29.00

Book Description
Until recently, organized philanthropy in the United States has largely ignored Hispanic population groups, due to language and cultural barriers. In this issue of New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, the authors report on research conducted with leading Hispanic philanthropists, fundraising professionals, and nonprofit executives about the current status of giving and asking in Hispanic American communities and their attitudes and beliefs about philanthropy. Chapters examine the effect of education and religion on Hispanic philanthropy; describe the development, implementation, and results of a fundraising training program conducted in Hispanic nonprofits; and illustrate how Hispanic women are transforming the nonprofit sector and philanthropy.

Maximum Dollars : The Twelve Rules of Fundraising
Robert M. Zimmerman; Spiral-bound; Buy New: $19.95

Customer Review
Robert Zimmerman's "Maximum Dollars: The 12 Rules of Fundraising" is written in a simple and entertaining style. Maximum Dollars addresses a fundamental component of all nonprofit organizattions: fundraising. This is an area that many find boring and difficult; Mr. Zimmerman makes it seem fun and exciting. He challenges many commonly held views. Rule 12, for example, states that people love to give money away! Each rule addresses an aspect of fundraising and provides key tips that a nonprofit can follow to fundraise successfully. Each rule is followed by an exercise that can be done by volunteers and staff to help learn to fundraise successfully. This book can help both new nonprofits that may not know how to go about fundraising correctly and established nonprofits to hone their fundraising skills, especially if they have board members and volunteers who are resistant. Maximum Dollars is one book that all nonprofit organizations should have.

Fundraising Secrets: How To Make The Most Money From Your Next Fundraiser
John Kaplan; Spiral-bound; Buy New: $19.95

Book Description
Packed between the covers of this stimulating book, you'll discover techniques proven to raise thousands of dollars. Written primarily for the community fundraiser, and backed by twenty years of practical experience, this book will teach you how to make the most money from your next fundraiser. Packed with real-life examples plus dozens of tips, shortcuts and money-making strategies.

Grants for Technology
Aspen Nonprofit Fundraising; Paperback; Buy New: $125.00

Book Info
A text spotlighting grantmakers that fund programs for technical services such as computers, software and Internet. Offers complete contact information, eligibility criteria and deadlines for each source. Also includes tips to guide grant searches such as dollar amounts, recent grants, and the funder's giving priorities. Includes profiles of private, corporate and public sources.

Simplified Grantwriting
Mary Ann Burke; Hardcover; Buy New: $55.95

Book Description
This step-by-step guidebook will give educators at all levels the practical tools they need to take control of the grantwriting process and succeed, including time-tested ways to:

Create a simplified process for managing grantwriting activities
Identify an effective marketing strategy
Effectively organize and time-manage the grant development process
Establish a "program sustainability plan" that ensures continuous funding and community support

. . . and much more. Field-tested and refined for more than a decade, these strategies can create a new level of understanding for all practitioners and bring effective grant development to your school and district.

The Art of Grantwriting
Wendy H. Anderson; Paperback; Buy New: $19.95

Book Description
The Art of Grantwriting is an instructional manual on how to write proposals. It is a step-by-step of the grantmaking process from start to finish; and is very reader-friendly. The book contains proposal samples and worksheets to help the novice get started.

Finding Funding, Grantwriting and Project Management from Start to Finish: Grantwriting and Project Management from Start to Finish
Ernest W. Brewer; Paperback; Buy New: $39.95

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
A comprehensive treatment of the grants world, writing grant proposals, and implementing, operating, and terminating a project. Covers resources such as the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, how grants are awarded, EDGAR, and site visits and audits. Includes a list of state points of contact. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Grant Writing For Dummies
Beverly A. Browning; Paperback; Buy New: $15.39

Customer Review
I was struggling through a master's level grant writing course and hitting snag after snag in my own grant writing project. The text books for the course provided contradictory and confusing information that on the whole did not apply to the actual process of grant writing. I gave up and purchased Grant Writing for Dummie. I only wish I had gotten this book earlier. The book is well organized and walks you through the often convoluted process of researching, writing and submitting grant proposals. I appreciated the clear writing and colorful examples of how to phrase and document a grant proposal. I recommended the book to the professor but he was less than enthusiastic about the idea of replacing the standard class textbooks.

Proposals That Work : A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals
Lawrence F. Locke; Paperback; Buy New: $41.95

Customer Review
As any graduate student will tell you acceptance onto a Ph.D program is largely based on submitting a successful proposal. Thereafter, as long as the researcher adheres to the proposal, graduation is virtually guaranteed. I am a Ph.D student who used the book to construct my proposal, which was summarily accepted by the research committee with minor changes. This appears to be contrary to what many Ph.D hopefuls experience. The book is expensive however I would highly recommend it. The proposal hurdle is well worth overcoming professionally.

Winning Grants: Step by Step, 2nd Edition
Mim Carlson; Paperback; Buy New: $27.03

Customer Review
I am a consultant, grantwriter, and trainer who specializes in technical assistance and training for HIV/AIDS services. I provide a copy of this workbook to participants in my grantwriting ("Bringing Home the Money!) workshops, because it's a good, basic overview of many of the different parts of the request for funding proposal.

What's most useful about Carlson's book is that it provides a summary for participants and another way of explaining some of the things I teach. There are also good worksheets included in Carlson's book, designed to help first-time grantwriters grapple with the different proposal elements. Carlson also includes a CD-ROM with different forms that can also be helpful.

The Only Grant Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets!
Ellen Karsh; Paperback; Buy New: $11.20

Customer Review
This really IS the only grant- writing book you'll ever need. It's an extremely helpful book that is both readable as well as comprehensive. The websites are exhaustive, the appendix material useful, the glossary of terms highly technical and inclusive, and the interviews with funders are unique. All in all - a gem.