Praise for Endowment Building
"This comprehensive work shows how endowments can provide multipleopportunities for donor involvement when the solicitation programis well designed and integrated with other fund development andprogram goals. Emphasizing the critical ethical issues inherent inmarketing and structuring endowment gifts, it is an excellentreference manual and training guide."
--Joanne Scanlan, PhD, Senior Vice President for ProfessionalDevelopment Council on Foundations, Washington, D.C.
"Endowment Building provides both practical, hands-on advice and aphilosophical, inspirational framework to guide novice andexperienced mission-based organizations. Given the demographicopportunities and challenges facing the nonprofit world, this bookis a must-read."
--Nancy Herrold Strapp, Executive Vice President and ChiefDevelopment Officer Buckhorn Children & Family Services,Louisville, Kentucky
"A comprehensive guide on how to start, grow, and maintain anendowment. It shows how to put theory into practice with numerousreal-life examples and success stories."
--Joe Bull, Director of Planned Giving, The Ohio State University,Columbus, Ohio
"After you read this book, you will know what to do and how to doit. It is a wonderful tool for new and emerging communityfoundations!"
--Kay M. Marquet, President and CEO, Community Foundation SonomaCounty, California
"Endowment Building is an insightful, succinct, easy-to-readresource on building successful endowment programs. It's awell-organized guide containing practical suggestions and remindersof things development professionals know but some-timesforget."
--Jeff W. Smith, Vice President and Trust Counsel, BaptistFoundation of Texas, Dallas
Diana S. Newman
Business & Management Gemeinnützige Organisationen Non-Profit Organizations Wirtschaft u. Management
"Endowments are very appealing as dependable sources of income fornonprofit organizations. Diana Newman's comprehensive workshows how endowments also can provide multiple opportunities fordonor involvement when the solicitation program is well-designedand integrated with other fund development and program goals. Dianaemphasizes the critical ethical issues inherent in marketing andstructuring endowment gifts in addition to clear step-by-stepguidelines for constructing the entire campaign. It's anexcellent reference manual and training guide." --Joanne Scanlan,Ph.D. Senior Vice President for Professional Development, Councilon Foundations
"Endowment funds will make the difference between organizationswhich thrive in the future and those which struggle to survive.Endowment Building by Diana Newman provides both practical,hands-on advice and a philosophical, inspirational framework toguide novice and experienced mission-based organizations. Given thedemographic opportunities and challenges facing the nonprofitworld, this book is a 'must-read.'" --Nancy HerroldStrapp Executive Vice President and Chief Development OfficerBuckhorn Children & Family Services
"A comprehensive guide on how to start, grow and maintain anendowment. Diana also shows how to put theory into practice withnumerous real-life examples and success stories."--Joe BullDirector of Planned Giving, The Ohio State University
"In this book, Diana points to the importance of an endowmentfor any type of nonprofit organization. It is for the beginner andthe experienced person. After you read this book, you will not haveto wake up in the middle of the night to wonder, am I missingsomething or am I doing something wrong, you will know what to doand how to do it. This book is a wonderful tool for new andemerging community foundations, I wish that a copy had been minewhen I started in this field 25 years ago! The community foundationfield concentrated on current giving rather than endowment buildingfor several years, now many are coming back to realize the power ofthe endowment."--Kay M. Marquet, President/CEO, CommunityFoundation Sonoma County (Sonoma CA)
"Endowment Building is an insightful, succinct, easily readresource on building successful endowment programs. It is awell-organized guide containing practical suggestions and remindersof things development professionals know but sometimesforget."--Jeff W. Smith, Vice President/Trust Counsel, BaptistFoundation of Texas
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