Asking a 59-minute guide to everything board members, volunteers, and staff must know to secure the gift

Main Author: Panas, Jerold (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Medfield, MA : Emerson & Church, Publishers, [2013]
Edition: Newly revised edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Joy of Asking!
  • 2. Thanks for Being a Friend
  • 3. You're Never a Losesr Until You Quit Trying
  • 4. You Won't Get Milk from a Cow by Sending a Letter
  • 5. Enthusiasm is Contagious, Start an Epidemic
  • 6. Enlightened Givers Feel the Rapture of Being Alive
  • 7. It's Easier to Get the Gift than the Visit
  • 8. Successful People Do What Others Never Get Around to
  • 9. The Secrets of Success Don't Work Unless You Do
  • 10. No One Ever Listened Himself Out of a Gift
  • 11. Donors Give to the Magic of an Idea
  • 12. The Archer Strikes the Target, partly by Pulling, Partly by Letting Go
  • 13. You'll Never Know if You Don't Ask
  • 14. Consistent Hard Work is the Yeast that Raises the Dough
  • 15. A Successful Fundraiser Shoots at a Target No One Else Sees, and Hits It
  • 16. Some Aim At Nothing and Hit It with Remarkable Precision
  • 17. The Line Between Success and Failure: 'I Didn't Make My Own Gift First'
  • 18. Triumph is Just 'Umph' Added to Try
  • 19. An Obstacle is What You See When You Take Your Eyes Off the Objective
  • 20. Objections Aren't Bitter If You Don't Swallow Them
  • 21. Great Opportunity Stands Beside You, in the Form of Objections
  • 22. A Desk is a Dangerous Place to Raise Money From
  • 23. It's Amazing What You Don't Raise When You Don't Ask
  • 24. You Don't Have to be Great to Start, but You Have to Start to be Great
  • 25. In All You Do, Act as if It's Impossible to Fail