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[Recommended Book]

American Foundations: Roles and Contributions

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By Helmut Anheier & David Hammack
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American Foundations represents the most comprehensive effort to date to assess the impact and significance of philanthropic foundations in the United States. Unlike operating charities such as schools, hospitals, and museums, grantmaking foundations enjoy exceptional independence. They also control substantial assets, amounting in 2007 to nearly $500 billion. Yet relatively little is known about their effect on American life. This book fills that void. Is American society different because of the existence of foundations? If so, why? What roles have foundations played in the course of U.S. history? What distinctive roles do they fill today, and what roles will foundations play in the future? How are rising incomes, the expansion of government, the growth of nonprofit organizations, changing religious and public values, and globalization shaping foundations' efforts?

In a three-year project supported by the Aspen Institute's Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Program, Helmut Anheier and David Hammack gathered leading researchers to examine the work of foundations across diverse fields, including education and research, health care, social welfare, arts and culture, religion, social movements, and international affairs. The book concludes that foundations have recently entered a new period, characterized by an appreciation of the limited resources, a search for leverage and measurable impact, and an acceptance of diversity.  Read more



[Services]

Annual Campaigns

The Annual Fund is the foundation of your development program. You may be familiar with the 95/5 Rule: ninety-five percent of your donations come from five percent of your donors. You need to have an integrated development program, which allows you to identify and target the top five percent of your donors for personal appeals. Phone and mail appeals will help you approach the remaining ninety percent of your donors. CAPITAL VENTURESM provides the following services to help you reach all your constituents with a cost-effective and donor-friendly approach.  Read more



[Tip Sheet]

Avoiding Development Office Horrors Tips

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Development offices have faced a lot of “horrors,” not just at Halloween. Anything from the CEO leaving in the middle of a capital campaign, to naming a building for a convicted felon, to having their major fundraising event of the year “snowed out.”  Read more



[Tutorial]

Avoiding Special Event Overload

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By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
CAPITAL VENTURE CEO/President
Originally published on the "NPO Central Resources" website

If you are bombarded with requests from board and volunteers to add yet another special event to your bag of fundraising tricks, take heed! First of all, you are not alone! Many organizations get caught up in "special event fever" when a board member or other well-meaning volunteer hears about a successful event run by some other organization and decides that your organization should run a similar event. The first thing you should do is help the board to understand that each proposed event has to be closely examined to be sure that the benefits outweigh the costs, including lost opportunity costs. Unless you have a staff whose job it is to implement special events, staff who are supposed to be providing programs and services are diverting their energies to events. If you do have development staff, board members and volunteers need to understand that if the development staff is busy with events, it may keep them from visiting major donors, meeting grant deadlines, etc.  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know

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By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
Take the 'Pain' Out of Your Capital Campaign!

The latest from the In the Trenches series

Do you work for or serve on the board of a nonprofit that is thinking about or ready to launch a capital campaign? Capital Campaigns: Everything You NEED to Know is a practical, down-to-earth guide that will take the "pain" out of your capital campaign.  Read more



[Recommended Book]

Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer

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By Joanne Oppelt, MHA, GPC
A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding

Do you want to tap into grant funding? Do you have responsibility to increase donations through foundation, corporate or government funders? Do you want to increase your acceptance rate?  Read more



[Tip Sheet]

Development Plan Tips

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If you don't have a written development plan for your organization, now is the time to do one. Some things to remember:  Read more



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Development Plan, The: Part 1 – Why You Need a Development Plan

By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
CAPITAL VENTURE, CEO/President
Originally published on the "Grant Station" website as part of "The Foundation for Success" Series
[Expanded Version]

How many times has a well meaning board member or volunteer come to one of your board meetings and offered this sage advice — “We should do a (golf tournament, gala dinner dance, art auction, walk-a-thon, etc.) because (Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, the hospital, etc.) did one and raised $100,000”?

Before the meetings ends, the whole board or committee is caught up in “event fever” and has the invitations designed, the flowers ordered, and the T-shirt sponsors listed. And there you are, the new development officer, trying to meet grant deadlines, straighten out the donor database, and organize the other events that your organization is currently conducting.  Read more


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Development Plan, The: Part 2 – Who Develops & Implements the Plan

By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
CAPITAL VENTURE, CEO/President
Originally published on the "Grant Station" website as part of "The Foundation for Success" Series

In Part I, we talked about the importance of the development plan and how your organization might benefit by having one. So, how does a busy development office find time for planning and who will implement the plan once it’s done? By involving the right people in creating and implementing the plan, the development office can move forward in a timely manner and provide a framework for evaluating all of its programs.  Read more


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Development Plan, The: Part 3 – What Does the Plan Look Like?

By Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE
CAPITAL VENTURE, CEO/President
Originally published on the "Grant Station" website as part of "The Foundation for Success" Series

What Does the Plan Look Like?

One thing to remember about your plan: it is more than a document! Both the process and the product are important.

In past articles we've talked about the importance of planning and who should be involved in the development planning process. However, it is equally important to have a written document to follow. The document itself will be critical to the evaluation process which we will discuss in the next article.  Read more


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