Fundraising Bright Spots: The Secrets of Successful Fundraising from Individuals

The Editors and Jeanne Bell

September 11, 2020

This webinar was first published online on April 18, 2017. It serves as a complement to this article.

A single director of development not working for you? This extraordinary webinar provides a bird’s-eye view of how a successful nonprofit “culture of philanthropy” works.

The webinar starts with a review of the distinguishing characteristics of 16 grassroots progressive organizations that are also uniquely successful fundraisers. It goes on to feature Ari Wohlfeiler and Melinda Wiggins, representatives from two of those organizations; their groups may be small, but they’re chock-full of fundraisers. The discoveries they made provide a goldmine of guidance to other nonprofits.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeanne Bell

Jeanne Bell, MNA directs NPQ's Advancing Practice program to advance critical conversations about nonprofit management and leadership. She is the former CEO of CompassPoint, where she stewarded the evolution of the organization to focus on emerging leaders and emergent leadership practice with an explicit orientation to social change. She is the author of numerous articles on nonprofit leadership, strategy, and sustainability and co-author of several books, including most recently, The Sustainability Mindset (Jossey-Bass, 2015). Jeanne's current board service includes Borealis Philanthropy and Community Works West. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the Master of Nonprofit Administration program at the University of San Francisco's School of Management.

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