Customer Reviews

25 Fundraising Secrets

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

This book is very heavily geared towards political campaign fundraising, even though it says it applies to everyone. In each little chapter, the last paragraph usually says "And this will also apply to non profit organizations", and that's it. Some of the tips you really have to think out of the box to understand how. The authors I'm afraid are not writers, and whoever proofread the book missed quite a few errors. The font is huge and the paragraphs all have 2 spaces between them to make the book look larger, but mostly this makes you feel like you've wasted your money on what should be a pamphlet.

In a nutshell, the best fundraising advice would be to put this money towards a more professional book, all of this is pretty much common sense.

Probably the best fundraising secret is writing a sham book like this and selling on Amazon.com for $10.99. This is not a book but a pamphlet - if that. With only 73 pages, there is no detail but 25 very obvious fundraising basics. A waste of $10.99 and the 20 minutes it takes to read this junk. Do not buy this book! It is a complete waste of money. Shame on these two idiots Garecht and Barksdale to produce such garbage. Not one original thought.
Seems I have to give at least one star. Such a ranking is a gift.

First of all, I don't think that this item deserves to be called a book, because this less-than-one-hour-reading is more like a pamphlet, with 25 ideas meant to help you to become better at fundraising. The problem is that these ideas are not new and most of them have been used by anyone, except for two or three of these which seemed a bit more interesting. Apart from that, it is 90% directed to political campaigns and it's almost completely useless for any charity or non-profit organization. Generally, these ideas are not very useful anyway and all these positive reviews here really make me think that they've been written either by the authors themselves or by someone who actually has no clue about fundraising at all. I consider that this "book"'s price is too high for what you get, so you better keep looking for something better and more substantial.

I've used several fundraising tip books to help jumpstart contrinutions to our local women's shelter. This book is definately the best.

25 Fundraising Secrets gave me some great ideas on how get new donors to our shelter, and how to get old donors to give more money. I particularly liked the sections on the "fundraising virus" and the "old man." Thanks for the help - keep up the good work!

I bought this book to help my political campaign raise more money. It worked! We recently held a fundraising event and utilized the ideas in this book, and our event raised three times as much money as any other event before. I can't wait to use the tips in this book for all the other aspects of our fundraising.

I highly reccomend this book to anyone who needs to raise more money. As the title says, it's guaranteed!

This is a good book on fundraising. I used this book to help our school start a fundraising drive to collect money to build a new gym. This book gave me a bunch of great ideas on how to do that.

I've passed the book around to our teachers and they all have gotten some new ideas to help with the collection drive. This book was a big, big help.

If ideas are what campaigns are all about this book will certainly provide 25 great ideas to aid any fundraising campaign of any kind. The book is packed with powerful language framed in short, descriptive doses. All you need to run a successful fundraising campaign--whether it be for political or non-profit purposes, is right here. Highly recommended.

While I had high hopes for this guidebook, I found it a bit topical and overgeneral. Nonprofit organizations would do better to invest in a more thorough, professional introductory guide to the topic of fundraising.

This tip book helped me with my last election - I raised a bunch of money using the secrets in this book. The fundraising ideas were right on, and the book was a real easy read. I highly reccomend it.

I disagree with the reviewer who called this book "brief." I bought this book because my childrens' school needed to raise money for a new auditorium, and I was put in charge of the fundraising committee. This book helped a lot.

Many other books on fundraising gave me information overload - I don't need to know how to judge card stock when printing up tickets for a fundraising event -- I just need to know how to make money from the event. This book WAS FANTASTIC! It gave me 25 great secrets for actually raising more money - not the nitty gritty that only confused me in other books.

I heartily reccomend this book.