Belief and Confidence

Nonprofit professionals rarely ask, and donors rarely discuss, how a giving experience compared to other giving experiences, and how they come to decisions about the few organizations with which they form their deepest philanthropic partnerships. Incorporating the words of serial philanthropists donors who have made large gifts multiple times and to a variety of organizations this book describes the factors that set donors most satisfying and, in their view, successful transformational and major giving experiences apart. Belief and Confidence is written for philanthropically minded individuals and families and for all current and emerging nonprofit leaders who want to experience the joy and satisfaction of engaging with philanthropists and supporting their work. While informed by the author s own experience and the experience of nonprofit professional colleagues, this book s lessons come primarily from philanthropists. Highly active board members and donors share details of their most satisfying transformational and major gift experiences and highlight the factors that distinguish these experiences, and the motivations behind them, from the rest.