Author(s) : Moira Stephne Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann Date       : 2006 Pages     : 128 Format    : PDF ISBN-10  : 0750681861 ISBN-13  : 978-0750681865

This handy textbook covers all you need to know to begin to use databases such as Microsoft Access.

Learning Made Simple books give readers skills without frills. They are matched to the main qualifications, and written by experienced teachers and authors to make often tricky subjects simple to learn. Every book is designed carefully to provide bite-sized lessons matched to learners needs.

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Author(s) : Ted Hart Publisher : Wiley Date       : 2006 Pages     : 264 Format    : PDF ISBN-10  : 0471768103 ISBN-13  : 978-0471768104

This powerful new book equips you to do it, by perfecting the complex process that requires a reliable combination of skills and intuition, experience and curiosity, discipline and spontaneity, and research and conversation. It presents the tips and guidance necessary to aid in researching potential donors more effectively and helps all types of charitable organizations analyze and select the best practices for developing multiple Internet strategies alongside their traditional marketing, communications, and fundraising methods.

Every part of the nonprofit sector, whether an arts group, a college or university, a health charity, a hospital, or a social change/advocacy organization, will benefit from this book and its fully integrated approaches to:
    * Prospecting for major gifts
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    * Considering what your Web site says to major donors
    * Moving from prospect identification to making friends for life

Written seamlessly by respected names in the field for nonprofit managers, fundraisers and leadership of fundraising organizations, knowledge managers, prospect researchers, and Web builders/designers, this book is a powerful tool to help nonprofit organizations understand the great treasures they can discover when they use the barely tapped resources of "e-research" as the first step in a highly personal program to attract big gifts.

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