Winter Issue
January 1998

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January 05, 1998

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President's Report

Spring Conference

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Fall Minutes

Treasurer's Report

LMDC Minutes

News from the Libraries

Statewide Plan for Libraries


Quote for the Day

When asked what he would be doing after leaving the White House, President Clinton replied, "I'm going to build my library in Little Rock, so I'll live at home some."
People Weekly
Dec. 29, 1997/Jan. 5, 1998 Issue

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Presidents Report on Fall ACRL WA/OR Conference
October 23/24, 1997


Fundraising and Grant Writing Resources
Mardell Moore, Science & Social Science Dept., Seattle Public Library

Moore explored the types of funding sources for grants and the characteristics of each donor type: corporations, government, individuals, associations, and foundations. Some of the grant resources she listed include: Foundation Directory, Foundation and Grant Register, and the Foundations Center's Database on CD-ROM (available by reservation at SPL (206) 386-4620).

The SPL has put together a Web site call the "Fund-Raising Resource Center" at http://www.spl.lib.wa.us/collec/fundrais/fundrais.html. Another Web resource is the Foundation Center Online (http://fdncenter.org/).

Elements you should know about a donor before contacting donors:

  1. Name, address, phone, e-mail, contact person
  2. Purpose or interests, assets, giving amounts
  3. Restrictions: grant type, grant recipient, geographic
  4. Preferred form of contact, deadlines, procedures
  5. Sample grants made recently

Working With Development Officers
Walt Dryfoos, Director of University Development, Washington State University

Dryfoos discussed the role of development officers in obtaining funding. He emphasized that fund raising is a nurturing process through which prospective donors are brought through "stages of deepening commitment" to a point where there is sufficient commitment to ask for a gift.

Fund-raisers should spend all day, every day, in activities that pertain to prospects:

  • identifying them
  • gathering information about them
  • using that information to design strategies that deepen committment
  • managing the execution of those strategies

Volunteers are important to the process: "Involve me, and I'll understand." Volunteers validate the needs and clarify the benefits and use of gifts. The correct phrasing of a goal is important. Volunteers can help with articulation of goals. For example, instead of saying, "We want to raise money for faculty support." It would be preferrable to say, "Our goal is great teaching." Faculty support is a means of achieving that goal.


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