The following documents are provided in a PDF format using Adobe Acrobat.

1.  How Do I Choose the Right Person to Chair Our Campaign?
There’s nothing else quite like it. You will be able to evaluate and rank the 21 most important characteristics and attributes of a campaign chair. It assures you of making the right selection. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

Answer (person.pdf 109 KB)

2.  What Do I Need to Know About Preparing a Case Statement?
The No-Nonsense Guide is the most complete document for preparing a Case Statement. It takes you step-by-step through the entire process—from initial concept to the completion of a dramatic and compelling document (36 pages). Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

3.  What Are the Questions You Need to Ask Before Launching a Campaign?
There are nine vital questions you need to ask before launching a campaign. You’ll be on thin ice if you start a program and aren’t certain of the answers to these irrefutable questions. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

4.  How Do I Make Sure We Have a Winning Fundraising Campaign?
Here are 13 criteria that will help assure you have a winning campaign. Answer these and you have a fail-proof program. Start counting your money! Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

Answer (winning.pdf 231 KB)

5.  How Can I Be Sure I Am Ready?
This is the most remarkable instrument you have ever worked with in assessing the timing and potential for success of your campaign. It pinpoints your readiness. We call it Assessment of Campaign Timing–ACT for short. We have field tested it for accuracy. Seven pages including a rating scale. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

Answer (ready.pdf 118 KB)

6.  Making the Choice
It’s the one way certain that you can be sure your Selection Committee chooses precisely the right fundraising counsel for your particular situation. We have a certain bias as to which firm it should be! But you would never know it from this 4-page comprehensive foolproof guide. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

Answer (worksheet.pdf 28 KB)

7.  How Do I Choose the Right Firm?
Follow the 15 guidelines in this piece and you simply can’t miss. It takes you through each critical area you have to examine before choosing your consulting partner. Your campaign and fundraising program is too important to leave to chance. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

Answer (choose.pdf 46 KB)

8.  The Eight Levels of Giving
Maimonides is considered the greatest philosopher in history. In the 1200s, he established the eight levels of giving that to this day set the model for philanthropy. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

9.  What Does It Take?
You’ll thoroughly enjoy this piece on Passion. We believe this is an attribute that is indispensable to your program and your own personal life. Read this and you’ll understand why. Fax us requesting a printed color copy (312) 222-9411 or email us.

Copyright © 2007 Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners. All rights reserved.

10. Raising Funds in Tough Times

There is no “perfect moment” to raise money. There is no such thing as a time when all possible factors are in your favor.

But there are some surprising and significant advantages to raising funds in hard times. This may surprise some. But we find that economic conditions are not a prime factor in the success of raising funds or in a campaign. Philanthropy has been one of the most stable factors in the economy, year in and year out. From the time we’ve been keeping records, philanthropy has increased steadily, each year more than the year before.

Tough Times.pdf