Content tagged with "non-profits"

Asking: A 50-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift
Book Review
March 9, 2014
101

A practical book about fundraising – it explains the step-by-step process of setting appointments, laying out your case, and asking for money. If you’re nervous about fund-raising, I don’t think this book will help. It has a number of scripted exchanges that, frankly, freaked me out a little and…

The Third Conversion
Deane’s Library
Book Review
March 12, 2014
113

A short, excellent book about fundraising for faith-based causes. It presents a new paradigm of fund-raising, more focused on the giver than the gift. It runs the risk of perhaps being too idealized, and it’s business fiction, which comes with all the risks of being stilted and awkward . To carry…

When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself
Deane’s Library
Book Review
June 3, 2018
137

Excellent book about the inadvertent damage we do when trying to help. It discusses how to help other communities and countries without accidentally making things worse – how to help in such a way that you build the community itself up, instead of just throwing money and volunteer hours at something…