Wiley Nonprofit Authority
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Money-Raising Nonprofit Brand, The: Motivating Donors to Give, Give Happily, and Keep on Giving
by Jeff Brooks
Published 1 January 2014
Why commercial-style branding doesn't work for nonprofits and what does Taking its cue from for-profit corporations, the nonprofit world has increasingly turned to commercial-style branding to raise profiles and encourage giving. But it hasn't worked. Written by a longtime industry insider, this book argues that branding strategies borrowed from for-profit companies hasn't just failed, but has actually discouraged giving. But why does branding a well-developed discipline with a history of commercial success fail when applied to nonprofits? The Money-Raising Nonprofit Brand + Website argues that commercial-style branding is the wrong tool applied in the wrong way to the wrong industry. * Offers a real-world fundraising strategies that work in the nonprofit world * Disabuses readers of the dangerous notion that commercial-style marketing works in the fundamentally different nonprofit world * Written by an industry insider with 25 years of experience raising funds for many of the most successful nonprofits in the world Nonprofit fundraising is a fundamentally different world financially, emotionally, and practically than commercial marketing.
Here, the author explains why commercial marketing strategies don't work and provides practical, experience-based alternatives that do.
Here, the author explains why commercial marketing strategies don't work and provides practical, experience-based alternatives that do.