If you're like most nonprofit fundraisers, you probably involve volunteers in running your special events, and perhaps involving them in the office to stuff envelopes and do other clerical duties.
Did you know you could be raising a lot more money each year by involving volunteers in ALL your fundraising activities? Yes, we said ALL-everything from researching funders and helping to create your development plan to running your capital campaign and assisting with planned giving efforts. All this will result in a better bottom line for your nonprofit.
In How to Involve Volunteers in Your Fundraising Program, we show you the many ways you can involve volunteers, where to find fundraising volunteers, how to recruit them, how to train them, and how to keep them coming back!
In this fast-reading book, we show you:
- How volunteers can play a critical role in fundraising
- How to help your volunteers to work along with the board and staff
- How to recruit volunteer fundraisers who are enthusiastic and committed
- How to ensure that volunteers are given meaningful work
- How staff members should support your volunteers
- And much more!
How to Involve Volunteers in Your Fundraising Program is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to maximize fundraising reach and effectiveness by harnessing the incredible power of volunteers. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide(TM), you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money.
As a Nonprofit Quick Guide(TM), you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money.
Contents
Chapter One: Expanding Your View of Volunteers in Fundraising
Chapter Two: Involving Volunteers in Research and Planning
Chapter Three: Involving Volunteers in Events, Direct Mail, and Phone Appeals
Chapter Four: Involving Volunteers in Your Annual Business Appeal
Chapter Five: Involving Volunteers in Major Gifts
Chapter Six: Involving Volunteers in Capital Campaigns
Chapter Seven: Involving Volunteers in Planned Giving
Chapter Eight: Finding, Training, and Retaining Volunteers
Chapter Nine: Bringing It All Together
Written by veteran nonprofit experts Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE and Joanne Oppelt, MHA, this book will help you raise more money by working smarter, not harder.
Lysakowski, Linda: - Linda Lysakowski is one of approximately one hundred professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive designation. Linda is the author of ten nonfiction books, a contributing author, co-editor, or coauthor of twenty-four others. She has also written six books unrelated to the nonprofit world. Linda has more than thirty years in the development field. She worked for a university and a museum before starting her own consulting firm. In her twenty-five years as a philanthropic consultant, Linda has managed capital campaigns that have raised more than $50 million, helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than forty thousand development professionals in most of the fifty states of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Egypt, and Bermuda. She served on the Association of Fundraising Philanthropy (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy Board and on the Professional Advancement Division for AFP. She is a past president of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Sierra (Nevada) AFP chapters. She received the Outstanding Fundraiser of the Year award from the Eastern Pennsylvania, Las Vegas, and Sierra (Nevada) chapters of AFP, was honored with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Las Vegas AFP chapter. Linda is a graduate of Alvernia University with majors in banking and finance as well as theology/philosophy, and a minor in communications. As a graduate of AFP's Faculty Training Academy, she is a Master Teacher.
Oppelt, Joanne: - Joanne, principal of Joanne Oppelt Consulting, LLC, is a seasoned rainmaker with a distinguished track record of success. During her twenty-five-plus years working in the nonprofit arena, she built or rebuilt successful fundraising departments at every stop, helping her organizations grow capacity and more effectively fulfill their missions. She has held positions from grant writer to executive director at the nonprofits Community Access Unlimited, Caring Contact: A Listening Community, Family to Family Network of New Jersey, Christian Healthcare Center, March of Dimes Central New Jersey, Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey, and Maternal and Family Health Services. Her extensive background in a variety of work roles and organizations enables her to understand the realities and challenges nonprofit practitioners face-both internally and externally. Her success at every stop positions her to help any nonprofit, whether through her books or consulting practice, turn around its struggling fundraising operations. Joanne is the author of four books and coauthor of twelve. She has taught at Kean University as an Adjunct Professor in its graduate program. She is also a highly sought-after speaker and presenter. Joanne holds a master's degree in health administration from Wilkes University, where she graduated with distinction. Her bachelor's degree is in education, with a minor in psychology.
