Are you tired of your nonprofit being the community’s best-kept secret? Do you want to influence community perceptions about your agency? Do you know where to find durable community support? Are you trying to leverage your resources more fully? Then read The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support.
In The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support, we show you where to start searching for loyal supporters; how to build strong partnerships that result in increased support; and keep your supporters engaged in your mission and excited about your organization so that they support you over time.
The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support will help you:
- Understand where your nonprofit stands in the community
- Create messages that further your agency’s credibility
- Establish long-lasting community relationships
- Garner the community support your nonprofit deserves
In The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support, you will learn how to connect with potential partners where they are, using messaging that they will respond to, resulting in increased public understanding of what your nonprofit stands for. You will be able to create strong, mutually beneficial partnerships, anchoring you as a leader in the community. You will know how to keep a strong partnership strong. And you will see how you can build on your success. By the end of the book, you will have a complete step-by-step guide to building partnerships that result in strong community support.
The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to expand community support for their chosen causes, leverage scarce resources, and increase annual fundraising revenues. As a 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.
Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide ™ series, The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support focuses on building strong community support. Other books in the series address other areas of fundraising such as development planning, grant writing, 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 a greater ability to meet unmet or growing client demand, the Nonprofit Quick Guide™ series is for you.
Joanne, principal of Joanne Oppelt Consulting, LLC, is a seasoned rainmaker with a distinguished track record of success. During her twenty-five-plus years working in the nonprofit arena, she built or rebuilt successful fundraising departments at every stop, helping her organizations grow capacity and more effectively fulfill their missions. She has held positions from grant writer to executive director at the nonprofits Community Access Unlimited, Caring Contact: A Listening Community, Family to Family Network of New Jersey, Christian Healthcare Center, March of Dimes Central New Jersey, Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey, and Maternal and Family Health Services. Her extensive background in a variety of work roles and organizations enables her to understand the realities and challenges nonprofit practitioners face -- both internally and externally. Her success at every stop positions her to help any nonprofit, whether through her books or consulting practice, turn around its struggling fundraising operations. Joanne is the author of four books and coauthor of eleven. She has taught at Kean University as an Adjunct Professor in its graduate program. She is also a highly sought-after speaker and presenter. Joanne holds a master's degree in health administration from Wilkes University, where she graduated with distinction. Her bachelor's degree is in education, with a minor in psychology.
