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Beyond the Bake Sale: Fundraising for Local History Organizations meets organizations where they are, cutting through all of the assumptions and mumbo-jumbo, taking professional fundraising strategies and scaling them to an accessible level.

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Beyond the Bake Sale is an comprehensive but accessible fundraising tool box. Jamie Simek demystifies development theory and practice in a way that is empowering, and offers professional, easy-to-use guidance to anyone working to inspire investment in your mission.--David A. Janssen, CEO, Brucemore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

"Beyond the Bake Sale is an comprehensive but accessible fundraising tool box. Jamie Simek demystifies development theory and practice in a way that is empowering, and offers professional, easy-to-use guidance to anyone working to inspire investment in your mission. --David A. Janssen, CEO, Brucemore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Simek manages to convey a staggering amount of information while simultaneously making the task of fundraising seem easy. That is undoubtedly the true gift of this book--the certainty it gives the reader that raising money, even walking into someone's home or office and asking them for cash, is not a daunting, anxiety-inducing task. If a historical organization offers something of value, then prospective donors should, of course, be willing to support it. Because this book is geared toward historical organizations, it focuses on cultivating relationships with local individuals and does not cover as completely grant funding and corporate relationships. What the author does cover, she covers exceedingly well. The book is chock-full of information that readers can return to again and again. If the book does not actually cover the needed information, the extensive notes and bibliography will undoubtedly lead to the answer. The index makes it easy to dip in to find relevant information or refresh one's memory on specifics of a topic. Beyond the Bake Sale should be a part of every historical society's professional collection. -- ""RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage"""

"Beyond the Bake Sale is an comprehensive but accessible fundraising tool box. Jamie Simek demystifies development theory and practice in a way that is empowering, and offers professional, easy-to-use guidance to anyone working to inspire investment in your mission. --David A. Janssen, CEO, Brucemore, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Simek manages to convey a staggering amount of information while simultaneously making the task of fundraising seem easy. That is undoubtedly the true gift of this book--the certainty it gives the reader that raising money, even walking into someone's home or office and asking them for cash, is not a daunting, anxiety-inducing task. If a historical organization offers something of value, then prospective donors should, of course, be willing to support it. Because this book is geared toward historical organizations, it focuses on cultivating relationships with local individuals and does not cover as completely grant funding and corporate relationships. What the author does cover, she covers exceedingly well. The book is chock-full of information that readers can return to again and again. If the book does not actually cover the needed information, the extensive notes and bibliography will undoubtedly lead to the answer. The index makes it easy to dip in to find relevant information or refresh one's memory on specifics of a topic. Beyond the Bake Sale should be a part of every historical society's professional collection. -- ""RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage"" Beyond the Bake Sale is an comprehensive but accessible fundraising tool box. Jamie Simek demystifies development theory and practice in a way that is empowering, and offers professional, easy-to-use guidance to anyone working to inspire investment in your mission. Simek manages to convey a staggering amount of information while simultaneously making the task of fundraising seem easy. That is undoubtedly the true gift of this book--the certainty it gives the reader that raising money, even walking into someone's home or office and asking them for cash, is not a daunting, anxiety-inducing task. If a historical organization offers something of value, then prospective donors should, of course, be willing to support it. Because this book is geared toward historical organizations, it focuses on cultivating relationships with local individuals and does not cover as completely grant funding and corporate relationships. What the author does cover, she covers exceedingly well. The book is chock-full of information that readers can return to again and again. If the book does not actually cover the needed information, the extensive notes and bibliography will undoubtedly lead to the answer. The index makes it easy to dip in to find relevant information or refresh one's memory on specifics of a topic. Beyond the Bake Sale should be a part of every historical society's professional collection."

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Jamie Simek helps organizations get organized. She is a systems thinker specializing in non-profit resource development at small and mid-sized museums. Her 20-year career in organization and constituent relations includes stops in university and alumni relations, student organization advising, veterans services, fundraising training, and grant writing. As the fundraising educator for Local History Services at the Indiana Historical Society, she was responsible for teaching fundraising, grant writing and evaluation methods to hundreds of local history organization leaders. In her current position at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, she is responsible for grants and special projects as a member of the philanthropy and membership team. By embracing her roles as both fundraising professional and museum professional, Jamie is committed to learning and sharing everything she can about resource development at museums of all sizes. Her unique professional background provides multiple perspectives that are helpful to small and medium-sized cultural heritage organizations. From working with local history organizations as a field services officer, to serving as a grant fund administrator and review panel facilitator, to preparing multiple proposals each year as a museum grant writer, Jamie understands the benefits and challenges that are inherent to these groups. She has served as a session and workshop presenter at AASLH annual meetings, chaired the StEPs Enhancement Fundraising Committee, authored the summer 2018 AASLH Technical Leaflet on fundraising basics for local history organizations and provided fundraising training to the Field Service Alliance on behalf of the American Alliance for Museums. She also provides fundraising training, grant writing, proposal critiques, and program design and evaluation reviews as an independent consultant. She holds a bachelor’s degree and Master of Science in Education from Purdue University and is a 2019 graduate of the Syracuse University V-WISE (Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) program.

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