Product Overview
Asking about Asking: Mastering the Art of Conversational Fundraising is for anyone involved in soliciting charitable contributions for nonprofit organizations. Do you want to improve the results when you ask for charitable contributions? Have you ever wondered how to get free from assuming how to ask and guessing what to ask? Would you like to employ simple, effective, proven techniques for soliciting contributions and recruiting volunteers?
Asking about Asking will equip you to:
- Seek and find larger donations
- Maximize the results from fundraising volunteers
- Ask questions more insightfully
- Listen more skillfully
- Respond in ways that are more engaging
- Assist donors in maximizing their philanthropic experience
- Cultivate and solicit gifts more confidently
If you're looking for a text on fundraising theory, this is NOT the book for you. On the other hand, if you need practical insight on how to bring major gifts to your organization - more frequently - get your copy today.
In Asking About Asking you'll find a treasury of useful tales, tools and tips that you will return to again and again. You'll discover how to exchange the worn out inadequate approaches of yesterday for high impact, cutting edge techniques that REALLY work.
Discover Stroman's 10 Step Staircase and learn how to escape confrontation based gift solicitation and replace it with Conversational Fundraising(TM).
About the In the Trenches Series
As part of the CharityChannel Press In the Trenches series, Asking about Asking is written in a fun, upbeat style. But don't be fooled by its down-to-earth approach and ample use of sidebars. In the Trenches books are authoritative and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject.
