Focused Fundraising

Maintain your focus, your productivity, and your sanity in the contemporary fundraising environment

In Focused Fundraising: How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload, accomplished nonprofit management strategists and leaders Christopher Cannon and Michael Felberbaum deliver a must-read combination of the latest mindfulness techniques and operational strategies that will equip you to succeed in an increasingly chaotic, noisy, and confusing fundraising environment. You’ll find concrete strategies to navigate the challenges of modern fundraising, including technology changes, scarce resources, and shifting donor expectations.

In the book, you’ll also find:

• Hands-on skills for sharpening your focus while those around you are giving in to endless distractions
• An insightful combination of big-picture views and micro-considerations that offer a practical roadmap to set and stick with your priorities
• Practical applications of tried and true mindfulness and nonprofit strategy research that you can implement immediately in your organization

An essential, desk-side resource for nonprofit board members, managers, leaders, and team members, Focused Fundraising is a one-of-a-kind toolbox designed to help you tackle the challenges you face every day.

CHRISTOPHER M. CANNON is the President of Management Consulting at Zuri Group, where he advises many of the world’s top nonprofits and oversees projects for clients who raise billions of dollars each year. He is the author of An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations.

MICHAEL FELBERBAUM is the leader of Yale University’s Advancement Systems and the co-founder of Causativity.org. Michael is a long-time mindfulness meditation practitioner and teacher. He also serves as a Board Member of New Haven’s Solar Youth.

Maintain your focus on what truly matters as you find the Zen of fundraising Focused Fundraising: How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload is an essential combination of evidence-based mindfulness techniques and powerful operational strategies to thrive in a hybrid/remote fundraising world. The book positions nonprofit managers, leaders, and team members to succeed despite a growing deluge of distraction and noise in the contemporary fundraising environment. A first-of-its-kind compilation of individual mindfulness tactics and operational strategies, Focused Fundraising is the tool you've been waiting for to help you create an environment in which your fundraising efforts can flourish and succeed. "This book tackles a topic--instant overload due to too much to do, too many distractions, and too little time--that is affecting everyone. Focusing on the important over the urgent is not always easy and Michael and Chris present tactics and some big-picture thinking that help fundraisers and the nonprofit sector. This book is full of strategies that I can use with my team." -- Theresa A. Pesch, President and VP of Philanthropy, Hennepin Healthcare Foundation " Focused Fundraising provides advancement professionals with tips and tricks that can help cut through the noise. Chris and Michael present step-by-step guides to deal with the daily grind and help you target what matters most." -- Donald J. Whelan, Jr., Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, Texas Christian University "Nonprofit work and fundraising requires daily inspiration so you can stay focused on what really matters, be resilient in the face of setbacks, and steadily move your vision and goals forward. With this book in hand, you've got a key resource to keep you motivated and on track." -- Allison A. Holzer, Co-Author of Dare to Inspire: Sustain the Fire of Inspiration in Work and Life , Master Certified Coach and co-CEO of InspireCorps

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.