That’s the title of a book referred to me recently by Kelly O’Donnell and Michèle Lewis O’Donnell. The book, by Gaylyn Williams, asks readers to make a mental paradigm shift, resulting in a major shift in action steps, in which donors would transition from being just donors to being lifelong partners. It contains over 200 pages of proven strategies and skills for building and maintaining your support. It is filled with helpful stories from the author’s lives and others who are using the principles based on Christian scripture. Each chapter has questions to ponder, challenging core beliefs about fundraising, and a section called, “What can I do today?,” offering practical suggestions to implement immediately. Learn more at…
This is a good book on Fundraising. It focuses on how to keep your donors once you get them. Provides many excellent ideas that have been modeled by the authors. I’m planning to give one to each of our Staff since it’s easier to keep a donor than find new ones, and we are all on donor support in Life Impact. And to understand that God has sovereignly “connected” a missionary with those supporting them as one of their “ministry groups” is a precious perspective in a day of fast and quick relationships.
Hey — your captcha code (wrong digit I put in) erased my paragraph.
D
Captcha is a real hassle. I really don’t like it a bit. But if we don’t use some kind of hurdle like that, we get HUNDREDS of comments per DAY from machine-robots that dirty-rotten-scoundrels send our way. Please forgive the inconvenience. Usually, before I try to hit “submit”, I hit ctrl-A (select all) then ctrl-C (copy) in case that happens. Again, please forgive but … so far, it’s the best survival solution we’ve found.
Doug