FriendRaising - Community Engagement Strategies for Boards Who Hate Fundraising but Love Making Friends - 3rd Edition Revised and Expanded

Your nonprofit deserves the kind of friends that will support your mission in every way imaginable - sharing their time, their wisdom, their in-kind gifts, their connections, and yes, even their dollars.

FriendRaising is a one-of-a-kind guide, helping board members (and your whole team) build authentic, in-person relationships throughout your community. Because when the whole community is engaged in your mission, they will do everything they can to make sure you succeed.

In this practical workbook, Hildy Gottlieb shares strategies she has used in her decades of work with nonprofit boards, including the 3 nonprofits she has founded. What she found might just surprise you: Strength doesn't come from how much money your board raises.

That's because most board members don't raise much money. Why? Because most board members hate fundraising.

Instead, board members build organizational strength by connecting real friends to the organization - people who will make sure your organization is strong in all ways.

Providing a proven alternative to raising money, FriendRaising provides activities that board members love to do.