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by Edward C. Schumacher (Author), Timothy L. Seiler (Editor)
This practical workbook will help you put in place the last component of a comprehensive development office-- an endowment program. Building Your Endowment gives development professionals, executive directors, consultants, and volunteers the information needed to understand and implement an endowment program that will get bottom-line results. Based on the philosophy and teachings of Henry R. Rosso-- founder of the Fund Raising School and the preeminent twentieth century fund raising educator-- Building Your Endowment is infused with Rosso's views, approaches, and perspectives on fund raising. Building Your Endowment
* Offers systemic approaches to developing an endowment fund raising program
* Includes the strategic choices an organization faces when developing endowments
* Contains a proven approach to endowment donors that has been successful for other organizations
* Gives a summary of the unique components of endowment and how it is different from other kinds of fund raising
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As nonprofit organizations struggle to raise money to cover the cost of their immediate needs and ongoing operating expenses, more and more nonprofits are learning that one key to stabilizing their financial situation is to build endowment.
This practical workbook will help you put in place the last component of a comprehensive development office-- an endowment program. Building Your Endowment gives development professionals, executive directors, consultants, and volunteers the information needed to understand and implement an endowment program that will get bottom-line results. Based on the philosophy and teachings of Henry R. Rosso-- founder of the Fund Raising School and the preeminent twentieth century fund raising educator-- Building Your Endowment is infused with Rosso's views, approaches, and perspectives on fund raising. Building Your Endowment
- Offers systemic approaches to developing an endowment fund raising program
- Includes the strategic choices an organization faces when developing endowments
- Contains a proven approach to endowment donors that has been successful for other organizations
- Gives a summary of the unique components of endowment and how it is different from other kinds of fund raising
Written in workbook format, this practical resource contains a wealth of worksheets that help you apply the ideas and concepts to your nonprofit organization. Using these worksheets, your organization will be better prepared for the critical decision making and planning so essential to successful fund raising for endowment. In addition, this handy workbook is flexible enough to meet the needs of any nonprofit organization no matter what its mission or size.
Author Biography
Edward C. Schumacher-- consultant, teacher, and trainer-- has taught fund raising for the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, at the University of Washington, and for United Way in Anchorage and Salt Lake City. He has also served as the primary trainer for two national Kresge Foundation initiatives on endowment fund raising.
