FUND RAISING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE New book describes fundraising by mail, telephone, fundraising campaigns, and special events The purpose of Fund Raising for Social Change, by Kim Klein, is to provide low-budget organizations (budgets under $500,000) with information they need to establish, maintain, and expand successful community-based fundraising programs. Several introductory chapters describe philanthropy in America, planning processes, and the role of the board of directors. The bulk of the book is devoted to several types of fundraising techniques: raising money by mail, raising money by telephone, campaigns and special events. Other special methods include fees for service, products for sale, payroll deduction programs, and adbooks. Appendices provide examples of successful fundraising plans, examples of mail appeal formats, and an interesting annotated glossary of special events. A good book to be used to brainstorm fundraising possiblities as well as a guidebook for carrying out 'some of the strategies. For More Information: Fundraising for Social Change, Kim Klein, Fundraising, PO Box 101, Inverness, CA 94437, 1985, $20 plus $2 shipping and handling GRANTS MANAGEMENT GUIDE Handbook for managing foundation, government, and corporate grants including useful lists and forms The Basic Handbook of Grants Management is a very useful handbook for anyone who manages foundation, government, and corporate grants. The book begins with an exploration of project management. A large part of the book is devoted to establishing methods for providing grantors and contractors with appropriate reports, records and evaluations. A typical requirements list is very useful. Other specific government reporting processes are also explained. One section is on managing project staff and program activities. Another section describes how to prepare one of those feared and much talked about site visits. For people managing many grants and contracts this is good solid reading, and even if you get few grants but need to manage projects you will find helpful advice. For More Information: The Basic Handbook of Grants Management, by Robert Lefferts, Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY 10022, 1983, $21.95 WHERE THE MONEY IS Why doesn't someone put together a guide for fundraisers to help them find biographical information on the rich? For several years, Helen Bergen, chief of the Biography Division of the District of Columbia Public Library in Washington, DC, was aware of how many fund raisers came to the library to find biographical information , about corporate executives, foundation officers and board members, and other people who control the nation's philanthropic purse strings. Inspired by one client who remarked, "why doesn't someone put together a guide for fund raisers to help them find biographical information on the rich?" Ms. Bergen has compiled a guidebook to the wealth of information that can be found in everyday (and some more esoteric) reference books in many libraries. The book describes what information you may need to gather, sources of biographic information, how to find donor's family information, and how to search for information by computer. This is a good book to add to any fund raising collection. Also it illustrates once again what a well-stocked library can do and proves that banks are not the only institutions with wealth. For More Information: Where the Money Is, Helen Bergen, BioGuide Press, PO Box 16072, Alexandria, VA 22302, 1985, $12.95, plus $LOO shipping costs Fall 1986 RAIN Page 31
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