Women and philanthropy: boldly shaping a better world

Revisioning Womens Philanthropy provides the keys to understanding and engaging female donors and also advises women seeking to develop as leaders and shape the future for the better. Women have been reinventing and leading the way in philanthropy increasingly over recent decades--through giving circles, global giving, transformative gifts, entrepreneurial giving, faith-based giving, family and couple giving and social change gifts. Given this fact, coupled with the current economic climate and most nonprofits' perennial need to fundraise,organizations and their leadership are searching for effective, thoughtful ways of engaging donors--especially this increasingly powerful demographic. Based on extensive interviews and the authors' joint half-century of experience, this book shares new ways to better engage women in giving, as well as insightsinto developing women leaders in the nonprofit arena. This book covers all ofthe key topics in women's philanthropy, including: The Modern Women's Philanthropy Movement Womens as Important Prospects How and Why Women Give OvercomingBarriers to Womens Giving Developing a Gender-Sensitive Fundraising Program Communicating With Women Developing a Plan to Involve Women as Leaders and Donors Training Women Volunteers to Seek Major Gifts Couple and Family Giving Working With Women of Wealth With increasing influence in the nonprofit and business sectors, women are changing the world as donors, volunteers, and leaders, and this book gives the reader the information and tools to tap into that powerful force.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-46066-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 29/09/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés