Focused Fundraising: How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload

by Christopher M. Cannon, Michael Felberbaum

Maintain your focus, your productivity, and your sanity in the contemporary fundraising environment

In Focused How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload, accomplished nonprofit management strategists and leaders Christopher Cannon and Michael Felberbaum deliver a must-read combination of the latest mindfulness techniques and operational strategies that will equip you to succeed in an increasingly chaotic, noisy, and confusing fundraising environment. You’ll find concrete strategies to navigate the challenges of modern fundraising, including technology changes, scarce resources, and shifting donor expectations.

In the book, you’ll also

Hands-on skills for sharpening your focus while those around you are giving in to endless distractions An insightful combination of big-picture views and micro-considerations that offer a practical roadmap to set and stick with your priorities Practical applications of tried and true mindfulness and nonprofit strategy research that you can implement immediately in your organizationAn essential, desk-side resource for nonprofit board members, managers, leaders, and team members, Focused Fundraising is a one-of-a-kind toolbox designed to help you tackle the challenges you face every day.

225 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2022

Reviews

[Katlynn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too wordy with little advice or structure on how to fundraise. The main point of the book is that you cannot fundraise effectively if you do not have focused efforts on who you’re contacting and for what purpose. Too much shit in here about how daily notifications/our phones distract us. Yes, thank you for that insight. Gives little structure of fundraising itself.

[Khiva Cheleigh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Redundant and wordy

This book say the same thing too often and uses too many stories and very long descriptions to explain simple concepts.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’d argue this is perhaps the single most useful book for those in fundraising leadership. If you want to lead an effective fundraising program, free from the distractions of perfection, performance, and busyness, then this book can help, equipping you with the basics of a “Focused Fundraising Maturity Model.”

[Apoorva · Rating 1 out of 5]

Should have been an article. The book is more about generally being a focused person (on which there are far superior books) and has very little beyond the 101 of fundraising.