Norman Olshansky and Linda Lysakowski served as editors, pulling together a team of leading nonprofit experts to contribute to this book.

Norman Olshansky is president of NFP Consulting Resources. His consulting practice focuses on planning and onsite counsel/direction for multi-organization collaborative capital campaigns for nonprofit organizations. He has over thirty years of professional and executive level leadership and consulting experience within both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. His clients have included both large and small service, health, cultural and faith-based organizations ranging from local and national health care companies, to military and law enforcement agencies. He has consulted for nonprofit entities throughout the U.S., Canada and Israel.

Norman has a master’s degree in social work, and has received national recognition for his work in human service and executive leadership. For many years he served in executive level positions with Jewish communal organizations. He is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and was named Social Worker of the Year by the Oakland County, Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. A frequent lecturer at universities, he has also published a syndicated column, is a national book reviewer and leader for CharityChannel, and is active as a volunteer in several civic, religious and professional organizations.

Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE, is graduate of Alvernia University and AFP’s Faculty Training Academy, receiving the designation Master Teacher for the latter. She is one of one hundred professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation. Linda is the president of Linda Lysakowski, LLC, dedicated to inspiring creativity and philanthropy.

In her twenty plus years as a philanthropic consultant, Linda has managed capital campaigns, helped hundreds of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and trained more than 26,000 development professionals in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, Egypt, and most of the fifty United States.