Gift Planning for Major Gift Officers
Onsite Resources
Look for these resources at the Major Gift Strategies conference. These materials will build upon the information you'll be learning in conference sessions.
Buy on site and save! You won't pay shipping charges when you purchase books at the conference and take them home with you. All publications will be sold at the CASE member price.
Materials available for purchase during the conference include:
- 11 Questions Every Donor Asks and the Answers All Donors Crave: How You Can Inspire Someone to Give Generously
Increase the impact of your fundraising by addressing the questions every donor asks. The answers in this book will inspire donors to give more.
- Across Frontiers: New International Perspectives on Educational Fundraising
Get practical, stimulating and thought-provoking advice on the new reality of international fundraising in higher education. Topics include annual funds, prospect development, engaging alumni internationally, trends in global foundation support and corporate philanthropy.
- Asking
Inspire volunteers and staff as they prepare to make prospect calls and ask for gifts. This book is a useful tool for training both new and experienced volunteers.
- CASE Reporting Standards and Management Guidelines
This must-have resource has been updated and reorganized to include standards for benchmarking surveys and guidelines for fundraising management and campaigns. Includes access to sample gift agreements on the CASE website.
- Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online
This practical book shares strategies, techniques, examples, research, advice and ideas about researching potential donors more effectively and focusing on approaching those with identified resources and demonstrated interest.
- Major Gifts: Solicitation Strategies
Updated and expanded, this new edition gives you a fresh perspective on the basics of major gift fundraising and donor giving. Includes case studies to test the reader's knowledge and hone skills.
- Mega Gifts: Who Gives Them, Who Gets Them
Interviews with dozens of donor who have made gifts of more than $1 million shed light on motivations and expectations of large-gift donors.
- Over Goal! What You Must Know to Excel in Fundraising Today
This book's discussion of the new realities of fundraising will help you understand how and why donors have changed and what you must do to secure their support.
- Power of Legacy and Planned Giving: How Nonprofits and Donors Work Together to Change the World
Think you can't start a planned giving program? Think again! This book presents a simple, multi-stage process that will help your institution undertake a planned giving effort.
- Seven Faces of Philanthropy
Outlines a "donor-centered" framework for fundraising and offers a detailed understanding of the concerns, interests, needs, and motivations of seven types of affluent donors.
Consider adding these titles to your advancement library. Don't forget to leave a little extra room in your suitcase to carry home your new CASE books.