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Nonprofit fundraising plays a critical role in the social fabric. Healthcare, Education, and so many other sectors depend on fundraising for continuity and growth. But the overload from today's always on, always connected world, threaten even the most focused fundraising teams and individuals. In Focused Fundraising: How to Raise Your Sights and Overcome Overload, a team of distinguished nonprofit leaders delivers a startlingly insightful and necessary instruction manual in how to retain and sharpen your focus when everyone around you is giving in to the endless distractions foisted on us by the modern world. In the book, you'll find robust combinations of mindfulness and science, organizational wisdom and individual advice, and big-picture views and micro-considerations that dovetail to provide a highly practical and compact resource for nonprofit fundraising professionals and volunteers. The authors show you how to successfully fight back against the volume, pace, and complexity of the contemporary business environment and learn to separate the necessary from the near. You'll explore concrete strategies for learning to distinguish between a true emergency and issues that are merely noisy and close, maintaining your focus and mindfulness with the effective techniques discussed within. A can't-miss resource for nonprofit managers, and fundraising professionals and volunteers seeking relief from the constant distraction and noise created by the contemporary organization, Focused Fundraising will also earn a place on the bookshelves of any business or nonprofit leader who wants to combine powerful mindfulness tactics with effective organizational operational strategies.