# An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations: Principles, Tools & Trends

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/executives-guide-fundraising-operations-principles-tools-trends/
- Published: 2011-03-03T18:40:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A straightforward guide to the principles of effective fundraising operations**

_An Executive Guide to Fundraising Operations_ provides fundraisers with easy-to-
understand approaches to evaluate and address fundraising operations needs and opportunities.
This guide simplifies and focuses on the analysis of problems and needs, allowing
a quick return to fundraising.

 * Provides the essential framework to improve and innovate development operations
 * Includes dozens of practical tools, including sample policies for data, database,
   reporting, and business processes
 * Offers sample workflow illustrations for gift processing and acknowledgment, 
   report specification, and other processes
 * Features sample reports for campaign management, performance management, and 
   exception management
 * Delivers effective calculators for operational rules of thumb

No matter what the department is called, most fundraisers struggle with evaluating
operational issues. This guide leads you through principles of effective fundraising
operations, simplifies complicated topics, and offers solutions to some of the most
vexing operations dilemmas.

## About Christopher Cannon

**Christopher Cannon CFRE** is a managing associate with Bentz Whaley Flessner, 
a full-service development consulting firm serving higher education, healthcare,
and nonprofits.