About Board Members Rule: How to Be a Strategic Advocate for Your Nonprofit:

Reframes a board member's role to be a strategic advocate for your nonprofit and its constituency. Given the heightened awareness of accountability and transparency, Board Members Rule shows how to pay attention to both while furthering your values, mission and vision and promoting pragmatic, effective and efficient strategies. Geared for busy board members, it includes succinct chapters on fiduciary responsibilities, financial oversight, relationships with the CEO, fundraising and marketing, recruiting for talent and diversity, strategic planning, self-evaluation and making meetings meaningful. It's filled with practical and common-sense tools, resources, forms, examples and learning exercises.

About Major Donors: The Key To Successful Fundraising:

This easy to follow guidebook is designed for board members and volunteers of nonprofits who want to help solicit funds through a major donor campaign effort and want a brief overview of what is involved. This primer will help your staff and volunteers unearth large contributions; contains task lists, sample conversations and a role plan exercise.

About the Authors:

Robert M. Zimmerman, Fundraising Specialist and President of Zimmerman Lehman, has 30 years of experience in the field of nonprofit administration in the areas of fundraising, organizational development and executive search. He has been Director of Development at a variety of nonprofit organizations on both coasts, including the Youth Law Center and the Westside Center for Independent Living. Bob has taught workshops for nonprofit staffs and boards of directors in the United States and Europe on such topics as major donor solicitation, grantseeking, hiring top-notch executive staff, and overcoming the fear of fundraising. A 1969 graduate of Antioch College, Bob has an M.A. from the University of Michigan. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and was the Co-Chair of AFP's "Fundraising Day 2001" in San Francisco.

Ann W. Lehman, Planning and Policy Specialist and Partner at Zimmerman Lehman, has worked in the public interest arena for more than 25 years. Ann received her B.A. from Rutgers University in and J.D. form Northwestern School of Law in Portland, OR. Immediately after law school, Ann supervised a storefront public interest law center in Portland geared to senior citizens. She was the Executive Director of the New York City office of the National Lawyers Guild and the California Law Center on Long Term Care. Ann has taught workshops in such areas as board responsibilities and recruitment, strategic planning, leadership, advocacy, human rights, and prevention of sexual harassment. She is co-author of Zimmerman Lehman 's book, Boards That Love Fundraising: A How-To Guide For Your Board and The Effective Nonprofit Board: Responsibilities and Recruitment, and ZimNotes, an e-newsletter for nonprofits. Ann has facilitated numerous conferences and retreats nationwide. She also works as a senior policy analyst for the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, where she has been responsible for implementing a human rights treaty, authored a survey and report on work-life options and a benchmark report on girls in San Francisco.