Beyond fund raising

Beyond Fund Raising is a blueprint for building new donor-organization relationships and explains how organizations can integrate fund-raising practices into the far more dynamic, comprehensive, and rewarding process of development. This book helps nonprofit organizations replace the feeling of begging with innovative practices that will create stable, ongoing donor-investor relationships. Beyond Fund Raising examines the common concerns of many nonprofits and offers proven steps to attract and retain donor-investors - not just to the organization, but to its mission. Supplemented with forms, task lists, and charts to help readers incorporate this new philosophy into their own organizations, this book shows nonprofits how to use a broader context of values-based philanthropy, development, and fund raising; maximize board development and participation and prevent mission drift; assess community needs by "replacing their mirrors with windows" as they plan; and institute institutional planning that supports these innovations at three levels: philosophical, strategic, and tactical. For fund-raising professionals, nonprofit executives, board members, other volunteers and consultants, Beyond Fund Raising offers the key to both a successful financial future and a reinvigorated organization.