Essential Principles for Fundraising Success: An Answer Manual for the Everyday Challenges of Raising Money

Essential Principles for Fundraising Success is a single-source, easy-access guide that offers answers to the most commonly asked questions posed by  professional fundraisers and volunteers. Organized in a clear, easy-to-use question and answer format, Essential Principles for Fundraising Success takes on the challenges that arise daily in the ongoing, high-pressured business of raising money. In this book, G. Douglass Alexander and Kristina Carlson (the founders of the successful Internet-based, fundraising consulting firm FundraisingINFO) offer insight from their combined forty-six years of experience working with thousands of nonprofit organizations. Based on the enduring principles of fundraising, this important resource shows how to master the three mainstays of fundraising—developing a case statement, creating a campaign strategy, and securing big gifts. Essential Principles for Fundraising Success also offers creative, out-of-the-box solutions for convincing reluctant board members and other stakeholders to follow proven, effective fundraising strategies

G. Douglass Alexander is chairman of Alexander Haas Martin & Partners, Inc., one of the nation's leading fundraising consulting firms, and chairman of FundraisingINFO.com. Alexander is also the chairman of MaGIC (Major Gifts Identification and Consulting), a database research firm that provides computerized screening.

Kristina J. Carlson, CFRE, is president of FundraisingINFO.com, an Internet-based fundraising consulting company.