Successful Library Fundraising

Best Practices

By (author) M. Sandra Wood

Publication date:

24 July 2014

Length of book:

208 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442237384

Obtaining the funding to maintain and grow library services and resources has always been a challenge. Successful Library Fundraising: Best Practices brings together a wealth of information from public, academic, special, and school libraries who share their successful approaches to raising funds through a variety of traditional and “outside-the-box” methods:

Library development (cultivating donors)
Endowments
Corporate financing
Special events
Friends’ groups and volunteers
Grants, and more

Fundraising is critical in today’s economic climate. Tips and ideas from this volume will help library professionals gain confidence to begin a fundraising program or improve their current fundraising activities.

List of Figures and Tables

Chapter 1. Fundraising for Public Libraries with Author Events
Andy Kahan

Chapter 2. Crazy Smart: Creative Approaches to Developing Your Donor Pipeline and Increasing Support
Thomas B. Hadzor and Kurt H. Cumiskey

Chapter 3. Selling Used Books to Generate Library Funds
Jane Rutledge

Chapter 4. Discovery Calls: Expanding Your Donor Base and Donor Pipeline for Future Library Support
Dwain Posey Teague

Chapter 5. The Campaign for Seattle’s Public Libraries: Buildings, Programs and Endowment
Terry R. Collings

Chapter 6. Taking a Campaign Public; the Community Phase of The Campaign for Seattle’s Public Libraries
Jonna Ward

Chapter 7. Strategies for Seeking External Funding in a Health Science Library
Hannah F. Norton, Mary E. Edwards, Michele R. Tennant, and Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig

Chapter 8. Developing the Potential of a Library’s Board
Christina Muracco

Chapter 9. Quick Wins in Planned Giving for Libraries: Documenting Simple Bequests
Karlene Noel Jennings

Chapter 10. Special Collections and Outreach
Sidney Berger

Chapter 11. A Public Library’s Multi-Faceted Approach to Fundraising
Gina Millsap and LeAnn Meyer

Chapter 12. Digital Philanthropy and Libraries
Lee Price

Index
About the Editor and Contributors

M. Sandra Wood has gathered an excellent collection of articles to inspire academic and public librarians the quest to raise funds for their libraries at a time when many sources of income are shrinking. . . .this book is primarily intended for professional librarians who work in academic and public library settings and is an excellent source of creative ideas for that audience.