Get the Job!

Get the Job! Your Fundraising Career Empowerment Guide was created because we need better jobs. If you're in your first fundraising job now, odds are you'll have another 2-3 jobs in the next 5 years. That means you need to get savvy on how to get the right fundraising job for you. Don't get stuck in a bad situation!

But how can you recognize a bad situation? This book will show you how, right in the interview.

This book represents the culmination of all of my years of experience looking for fundraising jobs, from how to create a killer cover letter to how to ace the interview. From speaking your truth at work (and calling out dysfunctional organizational culture), to how to succeed in your first 80 days.

How do I know all of this? Because girl I have been there!

I have been a development assistant, a development associate, a development officer and a development director, as well as a co-founder of a nonprofit and a development consultant. I've run big galas, career fairs, auctions, outreach festivals. I've written appeal letters and gotten grants. I've designed annual reports, marketing materials, and more.

In this book, you will get advice and materials that are easy to use and created especially for you, the busy fundraising professional.

You'll learn:

How to create a compelling cover letter that gets results
How to relate unrelated experience on your resume.
How to ask good interview questions to find out if your boss will be a bully.
Case studies of how people stepped into leadership roles at nonprofits.
The three conversations you MUST have with your boss to be successful.
How to negotiate for a higher nonprofit salary, AND MORE!

Table of Contents:

Finding the Job 1
How to Never Miss a Job Posting Ever Again 1
Job Search Sites 4
LinkedIn For Your Nonprofit Job Search 8
What Skills Do You Need to Be a Good Fundraiser? 20
What Kinds of Fundraising Jobs Are There? 21
What's In A Title? 29
Applying for the Job 31
Writing Your Cover Letter 33
Sample Cover Letter #1 38
Sample Cover Letter #2 41
Writing Your Resume 44
Sample Resume #1 45
Sample Resume #2 47
Applying For Nonprofit Jobs Online: Take it or Leave it 49
Looking for Work: Passion for the Mission is a MUST! 51
At-Will Employment WTF 55
But They All Want 5 Years of Experience! 57
Interviewing 60
10 Interview Questions You May Be Asked 60
6 More Interview Questions You May Be Asked 63
10 Stories To Tell In Your Interview 65
10 Questions to Ask in Your Fundraising Job Interview 67
6 Interview Questions to Find Out if Your Boss Will be a Bully 71
Sniff out for the Setup in the Interview 74
Cheat Sheet of Good Questions to Take To Your Next Interview 78
How to Negotiate Your Nonprofit Salary 81
Do Your research 81
How to Negotiate a Bigger Salary at a Nonprofit 84
Case Study of How to Negotiate Your Nonprofit Salary 89
Why Are We Paid So Little? 91
Now You've Got the Job 93
Too Many Interruptions? Try Solution focused Questions 99
Do You Have a Super Job? 100
How to Delegate Your Work 104
Moving On Up 107
How Can You Climb The Ladder? 107
Don't Be a Leader. Be a Builder. 111
Why Sit On a Board? 114
6 Ways to be a good nonprofit leader 116
Case Studies of Nonprofit Careers 119
How to Become a Chief Development Officer 120
How to Be an Executive Director 123
Getting into Political Fundraising 126
Getting into Planned Giving 133
Are You Feeling Stuck? 136
Becoming a Nonprofit Consultant 140
Articulating Your Needs 143
Do You Have Any Thought-Terminating Cliches? 143
Change Your Language, Change Your Life 145
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, So Learn Some Vocabulary! 148
Clarifying

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