By E.A. Scanlan
As part of the AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series, Fundraising Consultants: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations is a book that benefits both organizations and consultants.
The AFP Fund Development Series is intended to provide fund development professionals and volunteers, including board members (and others interested in the nonprofit sector), with top-quality publications that help advance philanthropy as voluntary action for the public good. The Association of Fundraising Professionals(AFP) and Wiley each bring to this innovative collaboration unique and important resources that result in a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
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Fundraising Consultants
Lowering net costs, realizing more money, and securing larger donations are just a few of the advantages to hiring a professional fundraising consultant. But how can you know you're picking the right consultant for your organization?
Filled with invaluable information to help you identify, select, retain, and work with development/fundraising consultants, Fundraising Consultants includes practical advice, tips, guidelines, possible outcomes of consulting, exemplary stories, and other useful information for nonprofit organizations of any size?considering the use of development/fundraising consultants.
Author Eugene Scanlan—a leading fundraising consultant—offers step-by-step guidance and resources to help you in your decision to use consultants, and then shows you how to go about getting the right one for the job. Its numerous case studies and practical tools—including sample invitation letters to consultants, sample requests for proposal, sample consulting budgets, samples of reports, and recommendations—equip you to implement the concepts introduced in the book.
This book can be a valuable resource for a development office looking to hire a consultant or for the independent contractor/grant writer who is selling their services.
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