The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support, (Paperback)

Are you tired of your nonprofit being the community's best-kept secret? Do you want to influence community perceptions about your agency? Do you know where to find durable community support? Are you trying to leverage your resources more fully? Then read The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support.

In The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support, we show you where to start searching for loyal supporters; how to build strong partnerships that result in increased support; and keep your supporters engaged in your mission and excited about your organization so that they support you over time.

The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support will help you:

• Understand where your nonprofit stands in the community
• Create messages that further your agency's credibility
• Establish long-lasting community relationships
• Garner the community support your nonprofit deserves

In The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support, you will learn how to connect with potential partners where they are, using messaging that they will respond to, resulting in increased public understanding of what your nonprofit stands for. You will be able to create strong, mutually beneficial partnerships, anchoring you as a leader in the community. You will know how to keep a strong partnership strong. And you will see how you can build on your success. By the end of the book, you will have a complete step-by-step guide to building partnerships that result in strong community support.

The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support is written for busy executive directors, development professionals, and board members who want to expand community support for their chosen causes, leverage scarce resources, and increase annual fundraising revenues. As a quick guide, it is designed to be read in one sitting or to grab a few chapters over lunch. More importantly, it gives you practical advice that you can easily implement without spending a ton of money.

Written as part of the Nonprofit Quick Guide (TM) series, The Surprisingly Easy Steps to Receiving Robust Community Support focuses on building strong community support. Other books in the series address other areas of fundraising such as development planning, grant writing, 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 a greater ability to meet unmet or growing client demand, the Nonprofit Quick Guide(TM) series is for you.