Macmillan Cancer Support is one of the largest and best known charities in Britain. This book presents the story of how a small charity with its beginnings in Edwardian England has grown from a society of lay people with a focus into a huge organisation that is at the forefront of cancer care.
Shows you the tools for making your direct marketing program a success. The author gives you advice about the most effective direct mail strategies and specific guidance. He teaches his step-by-step model through all the critical stages - from laying the groundwork for a prosperous campaign through the importance of thanking donors.
Offers an alternative model for asking and influencing potential donors and peers, using the techniques developed in the neural and psychological sciences. This book shows individuals how to make a compelling ask to mid- and high-value donors, win board members over to a campaign strategy, and reluctant colleagues to commit to their ideas.
Provides advice in plain language about what needs to be considered before completing an application form for funding. This book shows you where to get support and further advice; how to calculate realistic costs and how to collect baseline data and provide the necessary documentary evidence to back up the statements in an application form.
Examines the phenomenon of volunteering in India. This book traces the origins of voluntary action in India, exploring figures and ideas which have played an important role in inspiring Indians toward voluntary action during various stages of history. It covers general concepts which are important in the examination of volunteering.
This reference work covers 2, 500 grant-making trusts, each with the potential to give at least GBP25, 000 in total per year, collectively giving around GBP3 billion. The extensive indexes - by geographical area, field of interest and type of beneficiary, and type of grant - allow users to target the trusts that are most relevant to their needs
Fundraising for Social Change is one of the most widely used books on fundraising in the U.S. This, the sixth edition, is thoroughly revised and updated. It includes hands-on, practical strategies and accessible techniques for both practitioners and activists who want their organizations to grow and thrive.
The World Council of Churches' Ecumenical Women's Solidarity Fund (EWSF) is a project fund used by women for women in the countries of former Yugoslavia, with the aim of restoring hope, promoting reconciliation and human dignity. This is a collection of personal accounts from local women who are beneficiaries or implementing partners of the EWSF.
Addressing a key social policy problem, this book analyses modern voluntary organizations through the lens of a new theory of hybrid organisations, which is tested and developed in the context of a range of case studies. Essential reading for all interested in the future of the third sector.
Drawing upon a variety of genres - myths, proverbs, poems, letters, short stories, news stories, folktales, sermons, and essays - this collection documents the religious dimensions of American philanthropy. It not only chronicles the manifestations of philanthropy, but also reveals philanthropy's integral connection with American history.
Whether you're in the rotary club, raising funds for the church roof, or trying to save the school playing field, it's tough for small organisations without a professional fundraiser to generate the money they need for their campaign. This book contains the advice, ideas and guidelines that small groups need to raise money for good causes.
DSC adds to its stable of directories on trust funds by featuring in detail for the first time in print around 100 newly-registered grant-making trusts. Trusts are analysed for their grant-making policies and practices, contact details, and areas that they will not consider. An invaluable tool for the professional fundraiser.
This updated edition brings to fundraisers' attention the changes in what funders are looking for and developments in the application process. This work includes: a section on outcome funding; online applications; top tips from successful fundraisers; new case studies; and, examples of funders' guidelines for the 'ideal' letter.
Offers things that you need to know about formatting a successful fund raising letter. This book explains how to generate the best response, how to phrase your appeals, how to address your letter, how to write strong leads, how to open and close your letters, how to structure your letter, and how to use compelling stories to your advantage.
Grant-making trusts are a key source of funding for charitable activity, which no fundraiser can afford to ignore. This guide provides information in this area. It examines 1, 200 trusts, which between them give tens of thousands each year. The content is compiled both through contact with the trusts themselves and through independent research.
Suitable for those looking to raise money from grant-making trusts in Greater London, this work covers more than 350 trusts that concentrate their grantmaking in Greater London, making annual awards totalling around GBP98 million. It provides descriptions of trusts' grant-making policies and practices, as well as examples of the donations made.
Grant-making trusts are a key source of funding for charitable activity, and this guide - now in its twelfth edition - has built a reputation as the definitive source of information in this area. It concentrates on the 400 largest trusts that give over GBP300, 000 a year, with a combined grant-making total of around GBP2.4 billion.
Grant-making trusts are a key source of funding for charitable activity, which no fundraiser can afford to ignore. The Guide to the Major Trusts series has built a reputation as the definitive source of information in this area. This second volume examines a further 1, 200 mainly smaller trusts, which between them give around GBP203 million.
Don't just make money.. . make a difference. As a social entrepreneur, you can build a business that changes the world. But you will face some unique challenges. This book will prepare you for them. It is packed with advice, inspiration and real-life stories.
Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have historically played an important role in delivering health and social services in developing countries. This title describes FBO involvement in HIV/AIDS in three Central American countries hard hit by this epidemic: Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras.
A guide for the concerned individual about how charities, NGOs and pressure groups work. It uses examples from a cross-section of charities, it examines how your money might be spent, how to understand your charity's structure and accounts and how you can influence its aims. It also explores the role of volunteering, activism and public pressure.
Taking into account the fundamental reassessment of the role of the state in welfare and the funding and organization of the delivery of health care, social services, housing and so on, this book asks what the implications are for voluntary sector organzations, and how will they respond.
Generating money through fundraising events and schemes is a key factor for many schools. Aimed at headteachers, school governors and PTA members, The School Fundraiser provides a comprehensive guide to creative ways of raising funds for your school, while involving members of the school community in the process.
This work describes a study which investigated how diversity works in the case of community care. Both private and voluntary organizations are examined, and the way in which the research was undertaken is described in detail. Future models of care are also covered.
Each year, 2.6 million Australians donate over 434 million hours of their time in voluntary work. This book examines current roles of volunteers and the contribution of volunteering to contemporary Australian society, drawing on a wide range of expertise in order to provide organisations and policy makers with information.
In 1948, Wiliam Beveridge's last major report, Voluntary Action, was published. In this little remembered work, Beveridge, the father of the welfare state, sought out the middle ground between the state and the market. This book intends to re-evaluate and reassess the ideas contained within "Voluntary Action".
Volunteer networks are a key resource for fundraising, but are often not appreciated as they should be. This title demonstrates how to make the most of your volunteers. It includes coverage of: what community fundraising is; why people volunteer; and the value of volunteers.
This handbook aims to actively encourage and inform members of the public as to how they can help others, whilst at the same time enabling charities to explain their work in some detail to a large and receptive market. It covers areas such as funding, financing and opportunities for volunteers.
This book explores the history, meaning, and sociological implications of awareness campaigns, seeing them as personal displays of compassion in a culture where empathy is a by-word for authenticity. It also highlights how charities use awareness campaigns to reach their audience, and the transformation of charity into a commercial enterprise.
Whether you're asked to sit on a trade union board, a non-profit board for a community group or church, a business-focused board of an association or chamber of commerce, or the board of a charitable organisation, this title gives you the inside scoop on what questions to ask and what you need to do before you take the plunge.
Social enterprises are businesses run for a social or environmental purpose, to deliver benefits to the community and not to generate profits for individuals or shareholders. John Pearce describes how social enterprise might come to dominate the economy of Anytown.
Offers guidance to weathering the deep-into-twenty-first century not-for-profit climate. Suitable for those many newcomers to our ranks who believe the medium (especially email) is the message, this book could be their salvation their map out of the factoid wilderness.
Outstanding social entrepreneurs inspire students, transform communities, and ignite innovative approaches to solving social needs and generating the social enterprises across the world. This book offers a combination of both theory and practice and encourages readers to develop their own ideas and aspirations for social organizations.
Exploring how social entrepreneurial organizations are actually able to create solutions that tackle social and ecological problems this book makes out incentives as a key element of their value creation and identifies specific strategies for social value creation.
This handbook is designed to meet the increasing demand for an authoritative book reflecting the many challenges facing managers in VNPOs. It takes a practical approach to issues and skills needed over a wide range of managerial topics, providing an all-in-one reference source for managers.
Since 9/11, Islamic charities have been in the firing line. Some portray the entire sector as a conduit for terrorist financing. This book offers a radical perspective on the issue of aid and Islamic finance. It explores the social and political history of zakat and waqf, and challenges Western assumptions about the nature of humanitarianism.
We have experienced some remarkable changes in trust fundraising since the book was first published over 10 years ago. In this new edition we outline a variety of approaches to grant-making trusts that will save trustees' time and ensure greater success for fundraisers.
The appeal of voluntary action as a solution to growing welfare needs in advanced capitalist countries raises important questions about the social impacts and spatial equity of such provision. For the first time, these issues are addressed within a single book, it explores the complex relationship between voluntary action, society and space.
Tells the stories of ordinary people whose willing commitment to a cause or a community has informed and inspired author. This book discusses about the woman who has been the inspiration behind community reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the leader of a campaign tackling gang culture in Manchester.
When the author was appointed as Clerk to the Trustees of Sutton Coldfield Municipal Charities, he came across the transcript and a tape recording of a talk on the history of the Charities which his predecessor had given at a Trustees' meeting and this aroused his interest in the development of the Charities.
This volume brings together papers by voluntary sector scholars which were specially commissioned to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the London School of Economics's Centre for Voluntary Services. The papers address key issues currently facing UK voluntary sector managers.
CIOs are a fundamentally new legal form for charities in England & Wales, under the Charities Act 2006. Registration of new CIOs is now due to be possible from mid-2009. This book is intended to provide the full range of practical guidance needed by voluntary sector practitioners to establish new CIOs or to convert existing charities to CIOs.
This established title now in its 4th edition is the definitive read on the subject. Everything you need to know is here - from theory to practice, strategy to legalities, top tips to fine detail. Fully revised and updated and with contributions from practising experts it is essential reading for both new and and experienced fundraisers.
Takes a modern look at a range of professional careers. This title gives facts - potential salary and working conditions, as well as guidance and practical advice on a range of issues. It uses case studies to show what can be expected and offers advice on how to get into each industry from those who have already succeeded.
Being a fundraiser is exciting and fulfilling, but also full of challenges. You know what is important but how do you communicate that to potential supporters? And just how do you keep your motivation when the money isn't rolling in? In 33 vignettes, this book distils the spirit of fundraising.
The baby boomer generation is going to participate in the largest transfer of wealth in history when it passes on its assets to its successor generation. This book shows you how, why it matters, and how the future of foundations can provide a vital spur to the engine of the American economy - if they are properly established and run.
George Soros is one of the world's leading philanthropists. He created his foundation the Open Society Institute based on his commitment to democracy, justice, and human rights. It has given away more than $7 billion in over seventy countries. This title tells their story.
One in every six Israeli citizens is a Palestinian Arab. Whilst much has been written about the struggles of Palestinians in the West Bank and on the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Israelis have often been overlooked. This text charts the history of Palestinian civil society, as well as the repression they have faced from the Israeli state.
Illustrated with comprehensive case studies and sample correspondence, this book offers practical, step-by-step advice about how to go about getting - and, most importantly, keeping - major donors. It shows you how to: find and identify major donors; cultivate your most promising contacts; and create a culture that values major donors.
Looks at the forces at work in creating the global philanthropic world of tomorrow. This book offers practical tips and techniques on how fundraisers can survive and thrive in a flat world. It helps readers understand the Flat Philanthropic World with advice to help them chart their own course in a world of instant information transfer.
A how-to guide tailored to the needs of small to medium-sized nonprofits seeking to build a pipeline of legacy gifts that will sustain them into the future. * Provides the practical knowledge and tools that smaller organizations need to connect with loyal donors.
Explains that business approaches are often at odds with those needed for fundamental social change, since they privilege competition over cooperation, individual effort over collective action, and short-term results over the necessarily patient, long-term support required for messy and unpredictable process of fundamental social transformation.
A how-to guide for creating and funding social justice program grants. It shows how to increase funding for social justice philanthropy. It offers an insider's view what works and what doesn't work when developing grantmaking strategies in support of social change. It gives guidance and showcases foundations of various types and sizes.
Marking its 20th year in print the new 6th edition of this fundraising bible has been brought bang up to date for a new generation of fundraisers. Chapters on the National Lottery, Government Funding, Company Giving, the European Union contain are fully revised and updated. Essential for new and experienced fundraisers.
This book marks the launch of We Are What We Do, a national movement that aims to inspire people to use everyday actions to change the world. It has illustrations of 50 simple everyday actions presented with directness, whimsy and wit. This book has been produced on a gratis basis and any proceeds will go towards the development of the movement.
This text has been updated and extended to incorporate "Organising Local Events" (Published by Directory of Social Change in 1995 - ISBN 1-87-3860-88-9). If you are short of ideas to raise money for your group or charity, this book aims to give you inspiration.
The ICSA Charities Handbook provides clear and practical guidance on the law, regulation and procedure involved in running a charity. The book covers key areas of governance and compliance such as boards, trustees and officers, the Charity Commission and its requirements, and employment and volunteers.
When tragedy touched Julia Ogilvy's life, she found herself reassessing the way she lived. Married into a life of privilege - her wedding was attended by the Queen and Princess of Wales - and acclaimed Business Woman of the Year, she took the decision to leave her career to found a charity. This title presents her story.
Offers a visionary look at how nonprofit markets must restructure to better allocate funds and help high-performing organizations grow. This book explains how a virtual nonprofit stock market could guide philanthropy based on performance and social impact.