Book description
Everything you need to know as a nonprofit board member to raise more
money and help your organization succeed in meeting its goals
Engaging and informative, this practical guide to fundraising
contains valuable insights that nonprofit boards need to succeed in
raising money in today's dynamic economic environment. While written
expressly for board members, this useful handbook also provides advice
to executive directors and advancement staff on how to partner with
your board to build an unstoppable fundraising team.
A Fundraising Guide for Nonprofit Board Members shows you how
to raise more money by building board leadership and skills in
fundraising. This book covers it all-the board's leadership role in
fundraising; how to organize and train your board to raise funds;
building a team with board and staff; raising funds for operations,
major gifts and capital campaigns; how to ask for gifts; plus a guide
for conducting a board retreat that will lead to fundraising success.
- Demystifies the ask by providing a straightforward guide on how
to ask for, and close, gifts
- Features case studies, real life examples, and checklists in an
easy to reference format
- Offers sample materials for a board retreat on building the
successful fundraising team
- Also by Julia Ingraham Walker: Nonprofit Essentials:
Jump-Starting the Stalled Fundraising Campaign
Entertaining, practical, and easy to use, this book will become a
must-read for all board members, executive directors, and staff who
want to build an effective fundraising team.
Julia Ingraham Walker has been active in fundraising in New Orleans
and the surrounding region for over twenty-five years. She served as
vice president for advancement at Tulane University, where she
directed a successful 0 million campaign. For the past twelve years,
Julia has worked as an independent fundraising consultant on a
regional and national basis. While her specialty has been consulting
on capital campaigns, she became very active in a variety of
rebuilding efforts in the calamitous post-Katrina period in New
Orleans. Her clients include a diverse array of local, regional, and
national nonprofits, including independent schools, charter schools,
animal welfare organizations, museums, parks, and arts and cultural
organizations. She was named New Orleans Outstanding Fundraising
Executive by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for her work
at Tulane and is the author of three other books published by Wiley.
Julia's ongoing work with numerous nonprofit boards inspired her to
write this guide for board members.
