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4) Our secret society: Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highly significant aspect of the civil rights movement that has been long overlooked—the powerhouse fundraising effort that supported the movement—the luncheons, galas, cabarets, and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working-class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry, including Winthrop Rockefeller.
5) The volunteers' guide to fundraising: raise money for your school, team, library or community group
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A guide to raising money written for volunteers and staff who aren't necessarily professional fundraisers. Contains insights and stories from a team of nonprofit experts.
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The success or failure of a nonprofit depends on its ability to solicit donations from individuals, companies, and institutions. This book offers advice and stories from over 50 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists, and more. It explains how to make a fundraising plan, work with individual donors, solicit grants from foundations and corporations, and much more. This book also provides creative grassroots strategies and dozens...
Author
Publisher
Beaufort Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The desire for relevance -- and to save his marriage -- is ultimately what pushed Peter Cook to leave his beloved Alaska for the prestigious Parker College. Lured by the chance to work with his childhood political idol turned college president, Peter moves his family to Portland, Oregon to help promote his hero's fundraising initiative that would eliminate financial status from the college's admissions process. Peter arrives on campus as the Great...
9) Hot rod
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Kimble is preparing for the jump of his life. Rod plans to clear fifteen buses in an attempt to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank's life-saving heart operation. He'll land the jump, get Frank better, and then fight him, hard.
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