# Fundraising Consultants: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/fundraising-consultants-a-guide-for-nonprofit-organizations/
- Published: 2009-04-01T01:24:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Lowering net costs, realising more money, and securing larger donations are just
a few of the advantages to hiring a professional fundraising consultant. But how
can you know you’re picking the right consultant for your organisation?**

Filled with invaluable information to help you identify, select, retain, and work
with development/fundraising consultants, _Fundraising Consultants_ includes practical
advice, tips, guidelines, possible outcomes of consulting, exemplary stories, and
other useful information for nonprofit organizations of any size considering the
use of development/fundraising consultants.

Author Eugene Scanlan—a leading fundraising consultant—offers step-by-step guidance
and resources to help you in your decision to use consultants, and then shows you
how to go about getting the right one for the job. Its numerous case studies and
practical tools—including sample invitation letters to consultants, sample requests
for proposal, sample consulting budgets, samples of reports, and recommendations—
equip you to implement the concepts introduced in the book.

Part of the AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series, this guide covers everything you 
need to know to make critical decisions for selecting and working with fundraising
consultants and explores:

 * The request for proposal
 * Where to find the best consultant
 * Using the Internet and other sources in your search
 * The proposal for services
 * Pre- and post-proposal interviews
 * Selecting the right consultant
 * Drawing up a contract
 * Working with your consultant

Brimming with ideas, concepts, and information that will help you and your organization
through the consultant selection and working process, Fund-raising Consultants reveals
what your nonprofit should look for when considering hiring a consultant or firm.

Intended as a guide for any nonprofit organisation considering hiring a consultant—
to help the organisation see if it is ready to raise money, to assist it in raising
money, and/or accomplish the goals a good fundraising consultant can help the organisation
achieve— _Fundraising Consultants_ is your insider guide to using fundraising consultants
effectively.

**Published in The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series.**

## About Eugene Scanlan

**EUGENE A. SCANLAN, PHD, CFRE,** recently retired, is the founder of eScanlan Company,
which provided a full range of nonprofit management consulting services, including
organizational development and enhancement, organizational assessments, strategic
planning, and development/fundraising services.