Full 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.
Contents
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
