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This highly informative book will transform your nonprofit's fundraising and bring immediate results. Joanne Oppelt's inventive Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System will get your board, staff, and community excited about your mission so they eagerly support it financially and recruit other donors to join them. This unique system will help your nonprofit raise more money, improve its ROI, increase net income, and realize continuous net surpluses, all within the context of your current organizational capacity. Most fundraising books are about the mechanics of implementing specific fundraising activities. This book is different. It tells you how to implement a complete fundraising system. Based on Joanne's 30+ years of nonprofit experience, The Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System was specifically designed to improve any fundraising program. After implementing The Sustainable High ROI Fundraising System, your nonprofit will finally see the financial results your organization has always dreamed of.

Is one of your goals to build fundraising capacity? Do you feel anxious when you have to run the numbers? Are you frustrated when you get the results? Are you nervous when you deliver fundraising reports? Do you want to objectively show the value of your work? If so, we've written Raising Lots of Money: Essential Measures to Grow Your Finances and Excel at Fundraising just for you! In this fast-reading book, we show you: What fundraising, financial, and marketing data to collect How to organize your records How to use your data to analyze financial success How to use your data to improve your fundraising results Raising Lots of Money: Essential Measures to Grow Your Finances and Excel at Fundraising is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to grow their finances through the measurement of fundraising results. As a Nonprofit Quick Guide(TM), you can read it in one sitting or grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money. The authors help you: Show the value of your work in dollars and cents Manage your fundraising costs Measure the efficiency and effectiveness of your processes Optimize your scarce resources You will learn how to calculate the most important fundraising metrics and apply them to your everyday work. You will see how to influence more people to give more money. We will teach you how to make judicious cost decisions. You will know what marketing metrics to track and why. You will learn how to improve your donor journey and donor experience. We also cover how to objectively show the return on investment of your different fundraising activities. We wrap up the book by talking about how to use the metrics we covered to create budgets, evaluate performance, and analyze impact. Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide series, Raising Lots of Money: Essential Measures to Grow Your Finances and Excel at Fundraising focuses on evaluating financial and fundraising metrics. Other books in the series address other areas of fundraising, such as development planning, donor acquisition and retention, corporate contributions, fundraising communications, board membership, volunteerism, and career advancement, among others. If you want to grow revenues to keep up with increasing costs, improve financial performance and stability, or have greater ability to meet or grow client demand, the Nonprofit Quick Guide series is for you.

A look at how nonprofits can raise money amidst demands for accountability, transparency-and resultsNonprofits face the same challenges as for-profits when it comes to raising money and keeping investors happy. When investors in nonprofits are shown that their money is making a difference-that their investment is paying off-they are more likely to keep investing. Written by Tom Ralser-a CFA uniquely qualified to apply ROI methodologies to the nonprofit sector-ROI For Nonprofits: The Key to Nonprofit Sustainability details the methods and processes your nonprofit can effectively use to demonstr.

This book provides the first systematic and accessible text for students of hospitality and the culinary arts that directly addresses how more sustainable restaurants and commercial food services can be achieved. Food systems receive growing attention because they link various sustainability dimensions. Restaurants are at the heart of these developments, and their decisions to purchase regional foods, or to prepare menus that are healthier and less environmentally problematic, have great influence on food production processes. This book is systematically designed around understanding the inputs and outputs of the commercial kitchen as well as what happens in the restaurant from the perspective of operators, staff and the consumer. The book considers different management approaches and further looks at the role of restaurants, chefs and staff in the wider community and the positive contributions that commercial kitchens can make to promoting sustainable food ways. Case studies from all over the world illustrate the tools and techniques helping to meet environmental and economic bottom lines. This will be essential reading for all students of hospitality and the culinary arts.

The Little Book of Gold is dedicated to helping small (and very small) non-profits unlock their fundraising potential. Avoid common pitfalls and get tips on proven methods that work. This short guide helps new Executive Directors, active board chairs, and other key staff in charge of fundraising to learn the basics of professional and sustainable fundraising. Geared specifically for non-profits with small and very small budgets (a few hundred thousand dollars a year down to the smallest budgets). Revised and expanded. "It was a perfect primer for me as I prepare for a new role in my agency." -- Anne Maack, Child Start, Wichita, Kansas "A valuable contribution to our colleagues in the nonprofit world--especially those of us in smaller organizations that do not have dedicated fund development staff."-- Jose Martinez, Executive Director, Food Bank of Yolo County, Yolo County, California

This handbook is a compilation of comprehensive reference sources that provide state-of-the-art findings on both theoretical and applied research on sustainable fashion supply chain management. It contains three parts, organized under the headings of “Reviews and Discussions,” “Analytical Research,” and “Empirical Research,” featuring peer-reviewed papers contributed by researchers from Asia, Europe, and the US. This book is the first to focus on sustainable supply chain management in the fashion industry and is therefore a pioneering text on this topic. In the fashion industry, disposable fashion under the fast fashion concept has become a trend. In this trend, fashion supply chains must be highly responsive to market changes and able to produce fashion products in very small quantities to satisfy changing consumer needs. As a result, new styles will appear in the market within a very short time and fashion brands such as Zara can reduce the whole process cycle from conceptual design to a final ready-to-sell “well-produced and packaged” product on the retail sales floor within a few weeks. From the supply chain’s perspective, the fast fashion concept helps to match supply and demand and lowers inventory. Moreover, since many fast fashion companies, e.g., Zara, H&M, and Topshop, adopt a local sourcing approach and obtain supply from local manufacturers (to cut lead time), the corresponding carbon footprint is much reduced. Thus, this local sourcing scheme under fast fashion would enhance the level of environmental friendliness compared with the more traditional offshore sourcing. Furthermore, since the fashion supply chain is notorious for generating high volumes of pollutants, involving hazardous materials in the production processes, and producing products by companies with low social responsibility, new management principles and theories, especially those that take into account consumer behaviours and preferences, need to be developed to address many of these issues in order to achieve the goal of sustainable fashion supply chain management. The topics covered include Reverse Logistics of US Carpet Recycling; Green Brand Strategies in the Fashion Industry; Impacts of Social Media on Consumers’ Disposals of Apparel; Fashion Supply Chain Network Competition with Eco-labelling; Reverse Logistics as a Sustainable Supply Chain Practice for the Fashion Industry; Apparel Manufacturers’ Path to World-class Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Slow-Fashion Industry; Mass Market Second-hand Clothing Retail Operations in Hong Kong; Constraints and Drivers of Growth in the Ethical Fashion Sector: The case of France; and Effects of Used Garment Collection Programmes in Fast Fashion Brands.

Kihlstedt identifies four Asking Styles that she calls Rainmakers, Go-Getters, Mission Controllers, and Kindred Spirits, then matches the person's Asking Style to the optimal approach for asking for a philanthropic gift.