Fundraising for Social Change - Softcover

Klein, Kim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890759082 ISBN 13: 9781890759087

Publisher: Chardon Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Since it was first published in 1988, Fundraising for Social Change has become one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the United States. 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—e–mail, online giving, and blogs—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.

About this title

Review:

"Fundraising for Social Change is a must for anyone involved in fundraising–fromt he smallest community–based group to regional and national organizations. Kim Klein makes the art of fundraising user–friendly. In more than 30 years of fundraising and grant making for progressive efforts, I have not found a more worthwhile tool." (Ray Santiago, Seva Foundation)

"Kim′s clearly written and accessible Fundraising for Social Change lays out how to think about and how to carry out individual donor fundraising, capital campaigns, and special events. If your organization is trying to find a way to develop a base of financial support independent of the whims and fancies of finicky foudnations, this is the book for you." (Gary Delgado, Applied Research Center)

"This book is the Bible for grassroots fundraisers. Any time we get a question on individual donor fundraising we say, ′Have you checked what Kim says?′" (June Rostan, Southern Empowerment Project)

About the Author:

Kim Klein is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the field of grassroots fundraising, both as a writer and a practitioner. In great demand as a speaker and presenter, she has provided training and consultation in all fifty states and twenty–one countries. Klein specializes in training nonprofit organizations working for social justice with budgets of less than $2,000,000 on how to build a broad base of individual donors. She began her fundraising career while studying to be a Methodist minister and working in one of the first domestic violence programs in California, La Casa de las Madres, in San Francisco. Since then, she has been development director, board member, and volunteer for numerous organizations working for social change. Klein founded the Grassroots Fundraising Journal in 1981 and is the author of Fundraising for the Long Haul, Fundraising in Times of Crisis, and Ask and You Shall Receive. She also edited Raise More Money: The Best of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal with her partner, Stephanie Roth. She lives in Berkeley, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chardon Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1890759082
• ISBN 13: 9781890759087
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 403