Fundraising for Social Change, 8th Edition

INTRODUCTION TO THE 8TH EDITION

We are very pleased to welcome readers to the 8th edition of Fundraising for Social Change. This book has been in continuous publication since 1985, but this edition includes significant changes from previous versions. First and most important is that we moved from one author, Kim Klein, to coauthors, Kim Klein and Stan Yogi. Kim and Stan have worked together for many years, and Stan is a senior consultant with Klein & Roth Consulting. Stan reviewed the last edition of the book, identified information that needed to be changed or updated, and he took the lead on writing about legacy giving. His most important contributions to this book, though, are the two history chapters that comprise Part Ten of this edition. While both of us have trained, consulted, and preached (and occasionally beseeched) organizations to understand that a successful individual donor fundraising program will give them maximum freedom to pursue their mission, in these chapters Stan has documented how doing that worked for organizations in two social justice movements. To give readers a taste of what is possible, Stan drew from research and his own experience in the LGBTQ+ Justice Movement and the Immigrants' Rights Movement to show the critical role of individual donors in a cross section of nonprofits that support the overall trajectories of these movements.

In addition to this original writing, Kim and Stan invited a diverse group of fundraisers and resource mobilizers ...