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Is one of your goals to build fundraising capacity? Do you feel anxious when you have to run the numbers? Are you frustrated when you get the results? Are you nervous when you deliver fundraising reports? Do you want to objectively show the value of your work? If so, we've written Raising Lots of Money: Essential Measures to Grow Your Finances and Excel at Fundraising just for you! In this fast-reading book, we show you: What fundraising, financial, and marketing data to collect How to organize your records How to use your data to analyze financial success How to use your data to improve your fundraising results Raising Lots of Money: Essential Measures to Grow Your Finances and Excel at Fundraising is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to grow their finances through the measurement of fundraising results. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide(TM), 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: Show the value of your work in dollars and cents Manage your fundraising costs Measure the efficiency and effectiveness of your processes Optimize your scarce resources You will learn how to calculate the most important fundraising metrics and apply them to your everyday work. You will see how to influence more people to give more money. We will teach you how to make judicious cost decisions. You will know what marketing metrics to track and why. You will learn how to improve your donor journey and donor experience. We also cover how to objectively show the return on investment of your different fundraising activities. We wrap up the book by talking about how to use the metrics we covered to create budgets, evaluate performance, and analyze impact. Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide series, Raising Lots of Money: Essential Measures to Grow Your Finances and Excel at Fundraising focuses on evaluating financial and fundraising metrics. 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.

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Joanne, principal of Joanne Oppelt Consulting, LLC, is the creator of The Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System. She is a seasoned rainmaker with a distinguished track record of success. During her twenty-five-plus years working in the nonprofit arena, she built successful fundraising programs at every stop, helping numerous agencies grow and advance their missions. Joanne has worked with local, regional, national, and international nonprofits, helping them increase their net income and realize higher returns on their investments, resulting in continuous net surpluses. She has held positions from volunteer to executive director to consultant, working in both small and large organizations in a variety of fields including the arts, child welfare, disabilities, early childhood education, maternal and child health, mental health, public health, and at-risk youth. Her extensive background with various agencies in a variety of work roles enables her to understand the challenges nonprofits face-both internally and externally. Joanne is the author of four books and coauthor of fourteen. 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-five others. She has also written seven books in the spiritual and fiction realms. 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-eight 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 forty thousand development professionals in most of the fifty states of the United States, 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 magna cum laude graduate of Alvernia University with majors in banking/finance, and theology/philosophy, and a minor in communications. As a graduate of AFP's Faculty Training Academy, she is a Master Teacher.

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