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The ask: how to ask for support for your nonprofit cause, creative project, or business venture
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San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2010].
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Book
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Desc:
xxv, 243 pages ; 24 cm
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Gunnison Community Foundation
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This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers guidance, tips, and tools for asking for support for a nonprofit cause, creative project, or business venture, and includes sample dialogues. It is filled with suggestions, guidelines, and down-to-earth advice that will give you the confidence to ask anyone for any size gift, for any purpose. Filled with sample dialogues, and offering a wealth of tips and tools, this book addresses common mistakes made when asking and shows how to correct each mistake, providing guidance and direction on how to make a great ask. Offers step-by-step guidance for learning personal solicitation skills ; Filled with real-world tools and techniques for raising money or support ; Contains advice for overcoming situations such as hesitating to ask for money and following through on the ask ; Written for fundraisers from any size organization. Includes information on how to apply asking skills to a fundraiser's personal and professional pursuits.

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Language:
English
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9780470480946, 0470480947

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Includes index.
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This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers guidance, tips, and tools for asking for support for a nonprofit cause, creative project, or business venture, and includes sample dialogues. It is filled with suggestions, guidelines, and down-to-earth advice that will give you the confidence to ask anyone for any size gift, for any purpose. Filled with sample dialogues, and offering a wealth of tips and tools, this book addresses common mistakes made when asking and shows how to correct each mistake, providing guidance and direction on how to make a great ask. Offers step-by-step guidance for learning personal solicitation skills ; Filled with real-world tools and techniques for raising money or support ; Contains advice for overcoming situations such as hesitating to ask for money and following through on the ask ; Written for fundraisers from any size organization. Includes information on how to apply asking skills to a fundraiser's personal and professional pursuits.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Fredricks, L. (2010). The ask: how to ask for support for your nonprofit cause, creative project, or business venture. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Fredricks, Laura. 2010. The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Fredricks, Laura, The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2010.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Fredricks, Laura. The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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