Browsing by Subject "Fundraisers"

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    Giver Types: A Fresh Perspective
    (Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, 2023-05-23) Herzog, Patricia Snell
    This practitioner-engaged article describes how understanding the approaches donors take to their giving can inform better tailored fundraising practices and aid understanding of how one's own approach to giving is not necessarily other's preference.
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    Michael Tamer and St. Jude Children’s Hospital
    (2021-01-13) Curtis, Edward E., IV
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    The Social Capital Fundraising Model
    (2021-04) Dilworth, Kathryn Frances; Burlingame, Dwight F.; Applegate, Rachel; Badertscher, Katherine; Heyns, Erla P.; Shaker, Genevieve
    In current higher education fundraising models where alumni are aligned with their degree-granting unit, the academic library struggles to match the fundraising outcomes of its campus peers. A survey of seventy-nine fundraisers in academic libraries collected data on fundraising activity. It reveals common practices amongst fundraisers working in this environment and ongoing challenges to success. In a second study, a fundraising model based on social capital is proposed as an alternative to the traditional alumni model. The final study evaluates interviews with thirty-two individuals that further explores the challenges to fundraising success and the efficacy of social capital building as a method to overcome systemic challenges. Interviewees include academic library fundraisers, library deans/directors and university development leaders. Findings reveal a strong interest in a social capital-based approach to fundraising but reveal the necessity to pair the new model with revised fundraiser assessment models capable of measuring these soft skills.