Learn step by step how to craft a winning case statement!

This tool in the Excellence in Fund Raising WorkbookSeries offers you a practical, hands-on guide to creating thecornerstone of any successful fund raising program--an effectivecase for support. Written by Tim Seiler--a leader in the field offund raising and a disciple of master fund raiser HankRosso--Developing Your Case for Support provides you with acomplete framework for bringing together all the reasons nonprofitsknow they are worthy of support, and shows you how to develop acase that makes those reasons concrete and real for donors. Filledwith helpful worksheets and examples, the workbook features astep-by-step methodology for gathering, organizing, and using theinformation essential for developing a compelling casestatement.

Timothy L. Seiler is director of Public Service and The Fund Raising School and assistant professor of philanthropic studies at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Formerly, he was vice president of Indiana University Foundation. He is the editor-in-chief of the Excellence in Fund Raising Workbook Series from Jossey-Bass and coeditor of New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising.