Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth

by Joanne Oppelt, Linda Lysakowski

Overview

Are you frustrated that no matter what you do, your nonprofit never gets financially ahead? Are you trying to grow your revenues, but your donor base keeps shrinking? Are you recovering from a bad financial situation? Are you attempting to build up reserves so that you can continue core services even when funding cuts come? Do you dream of financial sustainability? If so, we've written Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth just for you!

In this fast-reading book, we show you:

• How to rebuild trust after funding and staff cuts
• How to budget for growth
• A new fundraising paradigm that leads to success
• How to implement surprising, cost-efficient techniques that can double your fundraising income 

Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to grow their missions by increasing their annual grant income. 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.

The authors help you:

• Find new donors
• Keep existing donors
• Create a fundraising organizational culture

You will learn how to think about fundraising and recover after a decline, You will see how to analyze budget performance, effective techniques to ensure a net surplus, and what to do to reach a healthy financial position. You will know how to motivate other people to fundraise for you. We wrap up the book by reviewing the path to sustainability.

Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide series, Beyond Survival: Eight Proven Techniques that Lead to Sustainable Nonprofit Growth focuses on creating financial sustainability through intense dedication to mission and shrewd financial management. Other books in the series address other areas of fundraising, such as development planning, donor acquisition and retention, corporate contributions, fundraising communications, board membership, volunteerism, and career advancement, among others.

If you want to grow revenues to keep up with increasing costs, improve financial performance and stability, or have greater ability to meet or grow client demand, the Nonprofit Quick Guide series is for you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951978341
Publisher:	Joanne Oppelt Consulting, LLC
Publication date:	06/13/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	50
File size:	665 KB

About the Author

Joanne, principal of Joanne Oppelt Consulting, LLC, is a seasoned rainmaker with a distinguished track record of success. During her twenty-five-plus years working in the nonprofit arena, she built or rebuilt successful fundraising departments at every stop, helping her organizations grow capacity and more effectively fulfill their missions. She has held positions from grant writer to executive director at the nonprofits Community Access Unlimited, Caring Contact: A Listening Community, Family to Family Network of New Jersey, Christian Healthcare Center, March of Dimes Central New Jersey, Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey, and Maternal and Family Health Services. Her extensive background in a variety of work roles and organizations enables her to understand the realities and challenges nonprofit practitioners face--both internally and externally. Her success at every stop positions her to help any nonprofit, whether through her books or consulting practice, turn around its struggling fundraising operations. Joanne is the author of four books and coauthor of twelve. She has taught at Kean University as an Adjunct Professor in its graduate program. She is also a highly sought-after speaker and presenter. Joanne holds a master's degree in health administration from Wilkes University, where she graduated with distinction. Her bachelor's degree is in education, with a minor in psychology.
Linda is one of approximately one hundred professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive designation. Linda is the author of ten nonfiction books, a contributing author, co-editor, or coauthor of twenty others. She has also written six books unrelated to the nonprofit world. Linda has more than thirty years in the development field. She worked for a university and a museum before starting her own consulting firm. In her twenty-seven years as a philanthropic consultant, Linda has managed capital campaigns that have raised more than $50 million, helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than fifty thousand development professionals in most of the fifty states of the United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Egypt, and Bermuda. She served on the Association of Fundraising Philanthropy (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy Board and on the Professional Advancement Division for AFP. She is a past president of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Sierra (Nevada) AFP chapters. She received the Outstanding Fundraiser of the Year award from the Eastern Pennsylvania, Las Vegas, and Sierra (Nevada) chapters of AFP, was honored with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Las Vegas AFP chapter. Linda is a graduate of Alvernia University with majors in banking and finance as well as theology/philosophy and a minor in communications. As a graduate of AFP's Faculty Training Academy, she is a Master Teacher.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Technique One: Building Public Trust

Chapter Two: Technique Two: Building Up and Maintaining Board and Staff Trust

Chapter Three: Technique Three: Building Up Your Finances

Chapter Four: Technique Four: Creating a Fundraising Plan That Works

Chapter Five: Technique Five: Changing Your Mindset - Fundraising is Not About the Money

Chapter Six: Technique Six: Sustaining Your Current Donor Base

Chapter Seven: Technique Seven: Bringing New Donors on Board

Chapter Eight: Technique Eight: Creating a Fundraising Culture

Chapter Nine: Bringing It All Together