📚 Reading List: Major Donors

The list below is curated to help you learn more about major donor fundraising and expand your skillset in finding the right high-value supporters for your organisation, as well as help you manage relationships with existing major donor supporters.

This list is updated every once in a while with new books that I come across online. Please do leave a comment if you know of any books around this topic and I will happily add them to the list.

• The Heart of Fundraising: Major Gift Strategy by Malik Sooch

• Normal Loaded People by Paul Cartwright

• Major Donor Fundraising by Lucy Sargent and Margaret Holman

• Major Gifts Unwrapped by Ruth Irwin

• Major Donor Fundraising: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online by Ted Hart, James M. Greenfield, Pamela M. Gignac, Christopher Carnie

• Capital Campaigns by Trudy Hayden

• Prospecting for Benefactors: How to find major donors to support your school by Mathew Iredale

• Prospect Research for Fundraisers by Jennifer Filla & Helen Brown

• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

• It’s NOT JUST about the Money Paperback by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels