How to Involve Volunteers in Your Fundraising Program - Joanne Oppelt
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™, 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™, 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.
EAN: 9781951978068
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™, 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™, 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.
EAN: 9781951978068