Capital Campaigns: A Guide for Board Members and Others Who Aren't Professional Fundraisers but Who Will Be the Heroes Who Create a Better Community

Are you a board member whose organization is contemplating a capital campaign? Do you wonder what's expected of you and whether you'll be able to reach your fundraising goal? At last, here's an authoritative but accessible guide for board members, offering a readable and thorough blueprint for how to conduct a capital or endowment campaign. Calling on 25 years of experience working with thousands of board members, Stuart Grover offers a step-by-step approach to conducting campaigns. He provides both practical knowledge and inspiration to those men and women he characterizes as "the heroes who create a better community." In a conversational style, Grover leads his readers toward the rewarding sense of fulfillment that community service offers.

Stuart R. Grover, Ph.D., has consulted with more than 300 non-profit organizations since 1983. Between 1990 and 2004, he owned The Collins Group, Inc., a Northwest fundraising consulting firm whose clients had raised almost $1 billion. He received the Professional Achievement Award from the Northwest Development Officers Association in 2004. His love of travel has taken him to more than 80 countries. He lives in Tacoma, Washington, with his life partner Pamela Transue and their rescue greyhound Whitney.