Raising Funds for Mighty Missions

Steps to Success — Doing What Matters Most

How Your Charitable Non-Profit or Faith-Based Organization Can Raise Money to Fulfill its Mission

By William H. Powell, CFRE, and Paul J. Kirpes

Publication Date: July 2010

Softcover, 850 pages

About the Book:  A must-have book for non-profit leaders and professionals everywhere, Raising Funds for Mighty Missions breaks successful fundraising into eight simple, easy-to-understand — and not often followed — steps. Based on careers spanning more than 30 years, William H. Powell, CFRE, and Paul J. Kipes call up stories of actual non-profit organizations to illustrate what "winning" looks like.  Raising Funds for Mighty Missions provides advice on structured bragging, emergent case for support, biblical stewardship principles, friend raisers, turboencabulators; grateful graduates; inside-out/top-down; inter-generation equity; investing wealth; organizational awareness potential; prospecting parties; stretch gifts; thanking every donor seven times and vivid visions. Mighty Missions is packed with practical tools, tips and techniques for fundraising success, and points out failure-guaranteed methods to avoid. The book gives a reasoned response to leaders' plaintive pleas of "I don't want to be a fundraiser"  and proven strategies to jumpstart fundraising efforts for boards, staff and volunteers. Professionals will find Raising Funds for Mighty Missions a handy reference and the spark that sets them apart.