Reflections for the Effective Capital Campaigner

About the Book

The capital campaign is a statement of will, but it had better be a statement of potantial. A successful campaign has far greater ramifications than the organization's leadership ever foresees. The successful campaign creates a new organization, not just a bigger one - an organization that recognizes its past only as a developmental phase of what is to become. The bar is raised, but the confidence level jumps even while being pressed to keep pace with ever-escalating expectations. Capital campaigns are for achievers, not the mere hopeful. With those words as a sendoff, Norvell proceeds to lay otu some basic insights about how organizations behave in a capital campaign and how to ghet them to operate better. His sage observations are linked with insightful and sometimes witty quotations from the famous and nearly so.

About the Author

A graduate of UCLA's Anderson School of Management, Jim Norvell has conducted successful major fund-raising campaigns in higher education, the arts and healthcare. He founded a successful capital campaign firm and chaired the American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel (AAFRC.) He consults both nationally and internationally from his home in Southern California where he is Director, West Coast Operations for Brakeley, Inc. a pioneer in philanthropic fund raising since 1918.