Thursday, March 29, 2012

What makes the book unique is the liberal use of examples. While technically not the type of workbook in which the reader writes answers to exercise questions, this volume provides examples and detailed explanations of specifics that result in a professional product. It is a useful handbook containing all of the basics.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Robert, who has extensive experience with foundations and campaigns, has written a book that should be valuable for the boards of foundations and other organizations with a sole mission of raising monies for a single related organization.

Unfortunately, I cannot recommend it for foundations that also make grants, and certainly not for any other form of charity or nonprofit. The book is therefore appropriate for well less than 5 percent of Canadian nonprofits.

The planned audience for the book is people who want to learn about governance. If you are in that category, I have to suggest you avoid reading this book, as you might not have the background to tell the good ideas from those that would be dangerous to apply.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Do you want to earn more money from the business community? Lysakowski’s new book, Raise More Money from Your Business Community: A Practical Guide to Tapping into Corporate Charitable Giving provides an opportunity for you to understand the history of corporate philanthropy, to increase it in your nonprofit, and to explore its future. Raise More Money provides the nonprofit development office with a desire to raise more money from the business community, the tools to succeed in a way that will compliment individual fundraising efforts.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

In 33 Funder-Friendly Elements No Grant Proposal Should be Without! Kim Rogers makes the case that grant-seeking and grant writing approaches should mimic or embrace direct-marketing techniques. The idea that the success of an organization’s grant writing strategy relies on more than just a well written and on time proposal is accurate and widely accepted in the grant writing field. 33 Funder-Friendly Elements No Grant Proposal Should be Without! provides some interesting ideas within the outlined elements about what some of these other influencing factors can be. 

Thursday, March 08, 2012

A must-have resource for those new and veteran to the film and video industry, which also offers terrific insights into fundraising for those of us who are outside of that industry altogether. For those who are working in the film, video, or television industry, it is a foundational text with vital resources. For the rest of us, it offers an insightful look at fundraising that might help us think outside the box a little bit and bring a fresh perspective to our fundraising enterprise.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The new Fifth Edition of Getting Funded is out and is still the best “how to” book in the grantwriting field. The book’s changes reflect the many changes in the grant funding world as grantmakers and grantees become more sophisticated, funding gets more competitive and application processes get more complex.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Everyone knows somebody who wants to get into fundraising. Whether they want save the world or change careers, you should give them a copy of Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy?