As nonprofit organizations struggle to raise money to cover the cost of their immediate needs and ongoing operating expenses, more and more nonprofits are learning that one key to stabilizing their financial situation is to build endowment.
This practical workbook will help you put in place the last component of a comprehensive development office-- an endowment program. Building Your Endowment gives development professionals, executive directors, consultants, and volunteers the information needed to understand and implement an endowment program that will get bottom-line results. Based on the philosophy and teachings of Henry R. Rosso-- founder of the Fund Raising School and the preeminent twentieth century fund raising educator-- Building Your Endowment is infused with Rosso's views, approaches, and perspectives on fund raising. Building Your Endowment

• Offers systemic approaches to developing an endowment fund raising program
• Includes the strategic choices an organization faces when developing endowments
• Contains a proven approach to endowment donors that has been successful for other organizations
• Gives a summary of the unique components of endowment and how it is different from other kinds of fund raising

In addition, Building Your Endowment takes you step by step through the fund raising cycle and shows how to examine the case, define the objectives, involve volunteers, select fund raising vehicles, identify potential giving sources, prepare a fund raising plan, prepare a communications plan, and solicit and renew the gift.
Written in workbook format, this practical resource contains a wealth of worksheets that help you apply the ideas and concepts to your nonprofit organization. Using these worksheets, your organization will be better prepared for the critical decision making and planning so essential to successful fund raising for endowment. In addition, this handy workbook is flexible enough to meet the needs of any nonprofit organization no matter what its mission or size.