"Fundraising Strategies for Community Colleges" is a hands-on, step-by-step guide to building a million-dollar-a-year development office. Community colleges educate nearly half the undergraduates in America yet receive as little as two percent of all gifts to higher education. Private philanthropy is now essential to the mission of community…

This article raises issues concerning fundraising by institutions of higher education and affirms the principles of institutional autonomy and institutional fairness. Considered are attachment of conditions to individual gifts, consequences of patterns of support, granting favors to donors, imposing burdens on donors, prospect research, and…

The key to fund raising is the donor, and fund raisers should learn to cultivate potential donors, approach them with goals compatible with their own, supplement their thinking, get them involved, and swamp them with gratitude. (MSE)

This guide for the governing boards of independent institutions discusses conducting a comprehensive fund-raising campaign. A comprehensive fund-raising campaign is broader and more strategic than past capital fund raising campaigns. Its financial goals include all potential gifts from annual fund donors, all gifts for the endowment, all gifts for…

As private fund raising becomes an agenda priority for community college foundations, the task of revamping foundation structure for successful board involvement becomes a challenge. Committee review of the foundation board's functions and revision of bylaws can aid fund raising and enlighten the whole institution as to the foundation's purpose.…

Outlines the benefits and steps of establishing an education foundation to raise supplementary funds for the long-term benefit of a school district. (MLF)

Case studies demonstrate four capital packaging approaches: a comprehensive statewide enterprise program for Pennsylvania; a county-based industrial development fund in Chautauqua County, New York; an employee buyout in Saratoga Springs, New York; and establishment of a small venture capital company in the Kentucky Highlands with Office of…

This report describes a program, the "President's Excellence Club," used at Midwestern State University in Texas to raise "unrestricted" funds for faculty and student development and special university projects. Though non-state support designated for specific purposes makes up a substantial part of the school budget, there is…

This guide reviews resources local officials can use to improve institutional services for children and families, and offers procedural advice. Chapter 1 examines the role of municipal government in providing human services and identifies two roles local government has in delivering these services: broker and administrator. Chapter 2 examines…

A wide variety of fundraising options is available to public schools. Such traditional school fundraising events as sales of student pictures, bake sales, carnivals, plays, magazine sales, concessions, and fruit sales can raise significant amounts if handled properly. Corporations, foundations, and charitable trusts provide a very small share of…

Fund raising is an essential task for trustees. Every trustee, without exception, should give to the point of his capability as the first step of any campaign. Potential benefactors will not consider a major gift to an institution whose board members do not support it. (MLW)

This report was written by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and offers suggestions to the President of the United States on ways to strengthen the system of support for the arts and the humanities in the United States. The document describes a vital cultural life as essential to a functioning democracy. It also examines the…

Charitable remainder trust (CRT) is formal, legal arrangement whereby individual irrevocably transfers assets to trust. Income produced by trust is paid out to grantor and spouse for remainder of their lives. Pooled income for smaller deferred gifts is similar to CRT. Explains how those trusts can benefit both school district foundations and…

One college administrator suggests that changes in the tax laws will not adversely affect philanthropic giving. An action agenda for the consideration of board members is presented. (MLW)

The law relating to charitable gifts to schools is described, and fund raising considerations are addressed. The first of four chapters, "Education Fund Raising in the Legal Context," reviews the history of the law of charity over the past 400 years (i.e., law in England during 1500-1800 and law in America during 1800-1900). "The Donor and the…