# Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/are-you-ready-for-a-capital-campaign-assessing-your-nonprofits-ability-to-run-a-major-fundraising-campaign/
- Published: 2013-03-29T03:45:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Assessing Your Nonprofit’s Ability to Run a Major Fundraising Campaign**

_Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign? Assessing Your Organization’s Ability to 
Run a Major Fundraising Campaign_ is a practical workbook that does what many organisations
pay thousands of dollars to have a consultant do for them.

If you are considering a capital campaign, it is wise to engage fundraising counsel
to formally assess your organization’s readiness and the community’s readiness for
your campaign. But this book takes you through the first steps of the assessment,
and often you can correct many of your shortcomings before engaging a consultant
to help you get ready for a campaign, saving you time and money.

This workbook will help you assess:

 * Whether you have a donor prospect pool for major campaign gifts.
 * Whether you have planned adequately for the campaign.
 * Whether your board is willing to step up to support the campaign.
 * Whether your staff has sufficient time to devote to the campaign.
 * Whether you have the right policies and procedures in place.
 * Whether your community is ready for the campaign.
 * How well your software system can manage a campaign.

Perhaps your board and executive staff think you’re ready to launch a campaign, 
but you suspect otherwise. This book provides exercises you can do as a group to
help you get ready for what will, most likely, be the biggest fundraising effort
your organisation has done up to this point. _Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign?_
can help you raise the sights of your entire organisation to raise more money than
you ever dreamed possible.

You will learn what the key ingredients of a successful campaign are and how to 
make sure your organisation has these ingredients in its toolbox before you launch
a campaign that could fail because you didn’t plan adequately.

## About Linda Lysakowski

**Linda Lysakowski**, ACFRE holds the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive 
designation. In her twenty years as a philanthropic consultant, she has managed 
capital campaigns ranging from $250,000 to more than $30 million, helped hundreds
of nonprofit organisations achieve their development goals, and trained more than
25,000 professionals in Canada, Mexico, Egypt, Bermuda, and most of the fifty United
States in all aspects of philanthropic development.

Linda has received the Outstanding Fundraising Executive award from both the Eastern
Pennsylvania and the Las Vegas chapters of AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals).
In 2006, Linda was recognized internationally with the Barbara Marion Award for 
Outstanding Service to AFP.

As a graduate of AFP’s Faculty Training Academy, she is certified as a Master Teacher.
She is a member of the board of directors of the AFP Foundation and past president
of the AFP Sierra Chapter in Reno, Nevada. She is a frequent presenter at regional
and international conferences and has received two AFP research grants.

## About the In the Trenches Series

This workbook is part of the CharityChannel _In the Trenches_ series. You’ll know
an _In the Trenches_ books, workbooks and manuals not just by their covers, but 
by their authors’ fun, upbeat writing style. But don’t be fooled by their down-to-
earth approach and ample use of sidebars. _In the Trenches_ books are authoritative
and cover what a beginner should know to get started and progress rapidly, and what
a more experienced nonprofit-sector practitioner needs to move forward in the subject.