Check it Out!

We have recently added Fired Up Fundraising: Turning Board Passion into Action to our lending library. Gail Perry explains how nonprofit leaders can appeal to board members' dedication to mission and vision in order to create excitement around raising funds. Providing a step-by-step process, Perry outlines her four steps to build a board that is passionate about fundraising:

1. Focus on mission
2. Inspire your board members with a new philosophy of fundraising
3. Ready your board with the right tools and skills
4. Engage your board members in your fundraising plan

Perry's writing is inspirational and practical. She concludes the preface of her book with the following:

If you create a passion-driven fundraising experience for your board members, you can tackle the myths about fundraising and instill new, more positive approaches that will have them excited about the difference they can make. Your board members will embrace your mission so throughly that they can become agents for change.

You will have them not just willing--but also wanting--to participate in finding expanded resources for your organization. You will rekindle individual passion for your nonprofit's mission and harness that passion into shared fundraising success. You will be able to create a board that is passion-driven--not fearful--about fundraising. A board that will be on fire for the cause, working to make the world a better place, and actually being, as Gandhi said, the change they want to see in the world. (pg. xix)

Here's how to check out this book from the Foundation Center--San Francisco library and a list of other circulating titles.