Recommended Fundraising Reading

Blogs

• Change Fundraising (Mine!)
• Jeff Brooks' Future Fundraising Now
• 101fundraising Crowdblog
• Pamela Grow's blog
• Charity Chicks
• tobinaldrich | A few thoughts on fundraising
• Sean Triner's blog
• FundraiserBeth
• Denisa Casement's "Opinionated. I know."
• Kevin Delaney's Blog
• The Agitator
• Jonathon Grapsas' Blog
• Beate thinks out loud
• Lisa Sargent's sporadic newsletter
• Clairification Philanthropy
• Fundraising Detective's Reading Round-Up
• SOFII
• Rogare's Critical Fundraising

Books

• Simone Joyaux's Keep Your Donors (And I imagine her other books too)
• Anything by Jeff Brooks
• Anything by Tom Ahern
• Dan Pallotta's Uncharitable
• Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang's Fundraising Principles & Practice
• George Smith's Asking Properly
• Ken Burnett's Storytelling Can Change The World (Haven't finished it yet)
• Roger Craver's Retention Fundraising (Haven't finished it yet)

Articles & Videos

• What we can learn from one of the worst charities in the world
• Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

How To Fundraise

• Check Your Next Appeal Letter Against This 16-Point List Before Sending
• Your Year-End Fundraising Appeal Letter (Downloadable Template)
• Your 7-Step Donor Retention Data Checklist
• Automation Kills

DM

• OPINION: THE FORGOTTEN MAN OF DIRECT MARKETING FUNDRAISING?
• Agents Of Good's Star Wars series

Telephone Fundraising

• Fundraising By Phone by Adrian Salmon (£)
• Pell & Bales' blog

Major Gifts

• 16 Ways to Get a Meeting With Your Major Gift Prospect