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101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide
Author: Melanie Mathos
ISBN: 9781118106242
The ultimate social media field guide for nonprofits - with 101 ways to engage supporters, share your mission, and inspire action using the social web 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits features 101 actionable tactics that nonprofits can start using today, and most of the featured resources are free. Broken...
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Keep Your Donors: The Guide to Better Communications & Stronger Relationships
Author: Tom Ahern
ISBN: 9780470080399
Written by fundraising experts Tom Ahern and Simone Joyaux, Keep Your Donors is a new, winning guide to making disappointing donor retention rates a thing of the past. This practical and provocative book will show you how to master the strategies and tactics that make fundraising communications profitable. Filled with...
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Nonprofit Fundraising 101
Author: Darian Rodriguez Heyman
ISBN: 9781119100461
Raise more money for your cause! Based on expert advice and insights from a variety of respected industry experts, Nonprofit Fundraising 101 is an essential text for nonprofit professionals, volunteers, activists, and social entrepreneurs who want to leverage best practices to promote their cause. Built upon the success of the...
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The Nonprofit Board Answer Book: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives
Author: BoardSource
ISBN: 9781118096116
An essential guide to good governance for board leaders at all levels of experience and expertise This third edition of the bestselling book for nonprofit board members and professionals offers a thoroughly revised and updated resource that answers the most-commonly asked question on board governance. The book covers such topics...
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Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager's Guide to Getting Results
Author: Alison Green
ISBN: 9781118137611
Why getting results should be every nonprofit manager's first priority A nonprofit manager's fundamental job is to get results, sustained over time, rather than boost morale or promote staff development. This is a shift from the tenor of many management books, particularly in the nonprofit world. Managing to Change the...
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The Fundraiser's Guide to Irresistible Communications
Author: Jeff Brooks
ISBN: 9781889102023
The Fundraiser's Guide to Irresistible Communication reveals ways of communicating that are proven to motivate donors to give generously, wholeheartedly, and repeatedly. Jeff Brooks, one of America's top fundraising writers, takes you on a step-by-step tour of the unique strategies, writing style, and design techniques of irresistible fundraising messages. This...
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Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide
Author: Peri Pakroo
ISBN: 9781413320886
Start a nonprofit and keep it running with this practical guide During hard economic times, nonprofits are more important than ever. Here, learn how to create and nurture a nonprofit that will serve your vital mission, whether supporting the arts, rescuing a school library, protecting the environment, or making a...
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Fundraising for Social Change
Author: Kim Klein
ISBN: 9781119209775
The bible of grassroots fundraising, updated with the latest tools and methods Fundraising for Social Change is the preeminent guide to securing funding, with a specific focus on progressive nonprofit organizations with budgets under $5 million. Used by nonprofits nationally and internationally, this book provides a soup-to-nuts prescription for building...
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Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits
Author: Heather Mansfield
ISBN: 9780071770811
Based on more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and 15,000+ hours spent utilizing social and mobile media, Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page hardcover book packed with more than 100 best practices covering Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and Web...
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Seeing Through a Donor's Eyes: How to Make a Persuasive Case for Everything from Your Annual Drive to Your Planned Giving Program to Your Capital Campaign
Author: Tom Ahern
ISBN: 9781889102344
Why should I give you my hard-earned money? Effective fundraisers answer this essential question every time they ask for a gift. What's their secret to success? They have a winning case for support. As Tom Ahern, America's premier fundraising writer, makes clear, a case isn't some fancy argument you only...
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Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift, Newly Revised Edition
Author: Jerold Panas
ISBN: 9781889102498
As phobias go, asking for money ranks right up there with public speaking. Yet if we hope to raise funds for a worthy cause, it's critical. Author Jerold Panas understands the art of asking like no one in America. As a staff person, board member, and volunteer, he's secured gifts...
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Grant Writing 101: Everything You Need to Start Raising Funds Today
Author: Victoria Johnson
ISBN: 9780071750189
A Crash Course in Writing Powerful, Persuasive Grants "Grant Writing 101 provides straightforward and effective strategies for improving results. It is a wonderful reference guide for experienced fundraisers and an invaluable 'how-to' manual for those starting their careers. "--Emmett D. Carson, Ph. D. , CEO and President, Silicon Valley Community...
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How to Say It: Grantwriting: Write Proposals That Grantmakers Want to Fund
Author: Deborah S. Koch
ISBN: 9780735204454
A guide to writing grant proposals tailored specifically to a donor?s interests, complete with step-by-step instructions and samples of winning proposals. In grant- seeking, words can go where the applicant can?t?the foundation boardroom, the corporation?s headquarters?so it?s important to use them as the strategic, powerful tools that they are. This...
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