Supercharged Giving: The Professional’s Guide to Strategic Philanthropy

Supercharged Giving is the ultimate professional’s guide to strategic philanthropy. Written by Dr. Byron Harrell, well known philanthropist and creator of Concept Mapping for Grantmakers, this book helps donors to get the most from their gifts. If you do not know what you want to accomplish, almost any act of charity can be deemed a success says Harrell. But, with careful research and thoughtful planning, you can build effective but simple pathways that boost the impact of every dollar you give to a nonprofit organization, he says. Even more importantly, your gifts and grants can be designed to minimize misunderstandings with grantees and enhance the effect of every dollar just like the world’s biggest and best run foundations but without big investments in staff, time, and complexity. This book describes a simple way to establish a clear donor strategy, provides a template for an annual strategic process, helps donors determine their most successful grant type and style, and shows how to use concept mapping as a graphic picture of the basic donor reasoning behind each grant. This book uses simple graphic trees to depict the pathways and reasoning behind your grants and it ties key branches to measurable outcomes and metrics. It is easy to understand and implement but it can be as complex as your most technically challenging grant. Every donor can develop a complete portfolio of grants that collectively strike at the heart of the issues dear to you.