Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign: The New, Revised, and Expanded Edition of the Leading Guide to Planning and Implementing a Capital Campaign

"This book is highly recommended for development professionals, as well as board members and administrators who believe that a few million can easily be raised by development personnel in their spare time."
--National Society of Fund Raising Executives Journal on the 1st edition

Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign has been the definitive resource on capital campaigns for a decade. Now, in the long-awaited second edition of the best-selling guide, Kent Dove offers an updated and expanded blueprint for planning and managing a successful capital campaign. He not only gives authoritative guidance to every aspect of a capital campaign but also provides new discussions on such important topics as linking strategic planning to fundraising, conducting external market surveys, defining leadership roles, establishing a campaign and solicitation process, and more. Other enhancements include:
* A dramatically expanded resource section that includes samples of a strategic plan, market surveys, case statements, financial reports, pledge forms, newsletters, program brochures, a complete volunteer kit, and a post-campaign evaluation
* New chapters on technology in fundraising, leadership gifts, and developing lasting relationships with donors
* Updated examples and real-world lessons from diverse organizations that have conducted their own capital campaigns
* The Dove Preparedness Index (DPI), a unique measurement tool that helps organizations simply and accurately assess their readiness to embark on a capital campaign
* The new Continuous Lifetime Giving Program Model, including an analytical and segmented marketing approach to its implementation
* A modernized version of the 80/20 rule, addressing the size and number of gifts that are needed to conduct a successful capital campaign
Packed with checklists, formulas, and tables, Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign is sure to make difference in your capital campaign

Author: Kent E. Dove
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 10/25/1999
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.98lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 1.07d
ISBN13: 9780470914670
ISBN10: 047091467X
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities | General
- Business & Economics | Small Business | General

About the Author
Kent E. Dove is one of the nation's most respected and successful capital campaign managers and consultants. He has been called the "preeminent fundraising practitioner working in America today." Dove is currently Senior Adviser and Executive Director, Campaign Planning, for the Indiana University Foundation and holds the prestigious Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Steuben Glass Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching.
He has served three terms on the CASE Educational Fund Raising Committee and one term on the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (NSFRE) Board of Directors. His past clients include the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, University of Houston Law Center, the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California, the Virginia Mason Research Center in Seattle, The Gladney Fund in Fort Worth, YWCA of Calgary, United Way of America, and many others.

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