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New book: “Advancement Services: Enhancing Fundraising Success”

Robert Weiner

The book was a labor of love for over 2 years by 25 of advancement services professionals, led and edited by the esteemed John Taylor. CASE has just published the third edition of its guide to Advancement Services. The title of this edition is " Advancement Services: Enhancing Fundraising Success." I'm honored to have written two chapters.

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Making the Case for Advancement Services

Robert Weiner

I also pointed her to CASE's book Advancement Services: A Foundation for Fund Raising , and CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement , which includes a chapter on Advancement Services, as well as the Association of Advancement Services Professionals. John Taylor cites statistics from a 1999 study by TARP Research.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

They researched online. Not sure the purpose of the scam since they didn't get any information out of us really; maybe just to get our hopes up. Here's what my major gifts officer wrote up: The caller’s granddaughters decided to give funds to [the college]. They have no ties to [the college].

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. Your clients expect you to know about new technologies, or at least know enough to be able to research something and inform them about it. I also buy a lot of books. Attend conferences.