Ignite Your Fundraising reveals how to: define realistic, attainable goals, acquire new prospects and donors, tell more effective stories, get your message out, manage all the moving parts of the plan, measuring your success, follow up so donors do not fall through the cracks, and ends with ways you can fine-tune the fundraising efforts to receive better results.
Ignite Your Fundraising makes the process of raising funds for your cause more organized, targeted and strategic, rewarding, fruitful, enjoyable-and less stressful.
Ignite Your Fundraising is written with three audiences in mind. Those individuals that are fundraising for the first time. Second, organizations that have stalled out and need guidance in restarting the fundraising process. Lastly, those organizations who are raising funds on a regular basis but want to raise the fundraising bar so their organizations can grow and be even more impactful.
Leavy weaves his decades of technology, marketing know-how, and coaching throughout Ignite Your Fundraising. John drops the jargon and excursions into the "weeds". By leveling the playing field with understandable language and clear-cut thought processes, the reader is able to easily digest and execute proven fundraising strategies by what is gleaned from Ignite Your Fundraising.
About the Author: ministryTHRIVE exists to deliver exceptional learning experiences to those in ministry to ensure they master the skills necessary to achieve their goals.
Before ministryTHRIVE, John founded InPlainSite Marketing, a leader in developing and delivering digital marketing strategies. John consulted and presented to Fortune 100 and 500 companies. He is a bestselling author of sixteen books, his latest was Ignite Your Fundraising. John's musings are regularly picked up by TheStreet.com, Entrepreneur.com, Visa Business, Yahoo! Finance, MSNBC.com, The Globe and Mail, Reuters, and The New York Daily News.
John has served on the boards of nonprofits for more than a dozen years. He has enjoyed leading as either president, chairman of the board or as a director doing what he can to help organizations succeed. He has also valued his time as a volunteer in the trenches.
As president and chairman of the board, John has helped launch a crisis pregnancy center and thrift shop while living in Illinois. In Colorado, he was asked to be president and chairman of the board for a startup Christian school in Woodland Park. He has also served as a director on the board of an entrepreneurial organization, Middle Market Entrepreneurs, in Colorado Springs. He has served on a leadership council, as creative director and as a church volunteer and in many other capacities. John believes his most rewarding times as a volunteer are when he gets to work alongside Kay or one of their children or grandchildren. Today, John's life centers on God, family, church, and community.
John loves spending time with Kay, his bride and best friend of 48 years of marriage. They have three of the greatest kids, okay grownups, on this planet as well as eight grandchildren. John and Kay live in Colorado Springs.
