Fundraising Realities Every Board Member Must Face

Fundraising Realities Every Board Member Must Face

Author: David Lansdowne
$37.00
Revised and updated Third Edition of a best-selling classic
From the first page, you and your board will be hooked on this one-hour-to-read book. The warmth, the encouragement, the perfectly tuned examples, the occasional humor – it’s an inviting package that draws you at once. Even Jerold Panas, the 800-lb gorilla of fundraising and author of Asking, is effusive with praise: “David Lansdowne has achieved the near-impossible. He has transformed a classic work that’s guided tens of thousands of board members and made it better – significantly better.”

Without wasting a word, Lansdowne distills the essence of big-gifts fundraising into 42 “realities,” and explains each principle and technique in a way board members will understand immediately.

Put this classic in your board’s hands, in their orientation packet, in their annual meeting folder, in their workshop handouts. Put it anywhere you need the art of fundraising illuminated in a masterful, uncomplicated, and engaging way.
This long-anticipated third edition has been updated to reflect current fundraising trends and opportunities.

ISBN 978-1-927375-94-5 Civil Sector Press 2023
Originally published by Emerson & Church with ISBN 9781889102030
soft cover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 112 pages

Revised and updated Third Edition of a best-selling classic From the first page, you and your board will be hooked on this one-hour-to-read book. The warmth, the encouragement, the perfectly tuned examples, the occasional humor – it’s an inviting package that draws you at once. Even Jerold Panas, the 800-lb gorilla of fundraising and author of Asking, is effusive with praise: “David Lansdowne has achieved the near-impossible. He has transformed a classic work that’s guided tens of thousands of board members and made it better – significantly better.”

Without wasting a word, Lansdowne distills the essence of big-gifts fundraising into 42 “realities,” and explains each principle and technique in a way board members will understand immediately.

Put this classic in your board’s hands, in their orientation packet, in their annual meeting folder, in their workshop handouts. Put it anywhere you need the art of fundraising illuminated in a masterful, uncomplicated, and engaging way.
This long-anticipated third edition has been updated to reflect current fundraising trends and opportunities.

ISBN 978-1-927375-94-5 Civil Sector Press 2023
Originally published by Emerson & Church with ISBN 9781889102030
soft cover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 112 pages

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