Successful Library Fundraising
Best Practices
1st Edition
Published on 24. July 2014
208 pages
979-8-216-28936-4 (ISBN)
Description
Obtaining the funding to maintain and grow library services and resources has always been a challenge. Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices brings together a wealth of information from public, academic, special, and school libraries who share their successful approaches to raising funds through a variety of traditional and "outside-the-box" methods:
Library development (cultivating donors)EndowmentsCorporate financingSpecial eventsFriends' groups and volunteersGrants, and more
Fundraising is critical in today's economic climate. Tips and ideas from this volume will help library professionals gain confidence to begin a fundraising program or improve their current fundraising activities.
Library development (cultivating donors)EndowmentsCorporate financingSpecial eventsFriends' groups and volunteersGrants, and more
Fundraising is critical in today's economic climate. Tips and ideas from this volume will help library professionals gain confidence to begin a fundraising program or improve their current fundraising activities.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
9 BW Illustrations, 20 BW Photos, 5 Tables
ISBN-13
979-8-216-28936-4 (9798216289364)
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07/2014
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€75.70
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Person
M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, AHIP, FMLA is Librarian Emerita, Penn State University Libraries. She was a librarian at the George T. Harrell Library, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, for over 35 years, specializing in reference, educational, and database services.
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1. Fundraising for Public Libraries with Author Events
Andy Kahan
Chapter 2. Crazy Smart: Creative Approaches to Developing Your Donor Pipeline and Increasing Support
Thomas B. Hadzor and Kurt H. Cumiskey
Chapter 3. Selling Used Books to Generate Library Funds
Jane Rutledge
Chapter 4. Discovery Calls: Expanding Your Donor Base and Donor Pipeline for Future Library Support
Dwain Posey Teague
Chapter 5. The Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries: Buildings, Programs and Endowment
Terry R. Collings
Chapter 6. Taking a Campaign Public; the Community Phase of The Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries
Jonna Ward
Chapter 7. Strategies for Seeking External Funding in a Health Science Library
Hannah F. Norton, Mary E. Edwards, Michele R. Tennant, and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
Chapter 8. Developing the Potential of a Library's Board
Christina Muracco
Chapter 9. Quick Wins in Planned Giving for Libraries: Documenting Simple Bequests
Karlene Noel Jennings
Chapter 10. Special Collections and Outreach
Sidney Berger
Chapter 11. A Public Library's Multi-Faceted Approach to Fundraising
Gina Millsap and LeAnn Meyer
Chapter 12. Digital Philanthropy and Libraries
Lee Price
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Chapter 1. Fundraising for Public Libraries with Author Events
Andy Kahan
Chapter 2. Crazy Smart: Creative Approaches to Developing Your Donor Pipeline and Increasing Support
Thomas B. Hadzor and Kurt H. Cumiskey
Chapter 3. Selling Used Books to Generate Library Funds
Jane Rutledge
Chapter 4. Discovery Calls: Expanding Your Donor Base and Donor Pipeline for Future Library Support
Dwain Posey Teague
Chapter 5. The Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries: Buildings, Programs and Endowment
Terry R. Collings
Chapter 6. Taking a Campaign Public; the Community Phase of The Campaign for Seattle's Public Libraries
Jonna Ward
Chapter 7. Strategies for Seeking External Funding in a Health Science Library
Hannah F. Norton, Mary E. Edwards, Michele R. Tennant, and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
Chapter 8. Developing the Potential of a Library's Board
Christina Muracco
Chapter 9. Quick Wins in Planned Giving for Libraries: Documenting Simple Bequests
Karlene Noel Jennings
Chapter 10. Special Collections and Outreach
Sidney Berger
Chapter 11. A Public Library's Multi-Faceted Approach to Fundraising
Gina Millsap and LeAnn Meyer
Chapter 12. Digital Philanthropy and Libraries
Lee Price
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
