Emily Shultz, Tass Barry, Jesse Finkelstein, and Marc A. Pitman meet to kick off the 20th Anniversary of Ask Without Fear!®
I’m thrilled to announce I’m officially working on revising Ask Without Fear!®.
It’s hard to believe the book was written almost 20 years ago. Since then it’s taken me around the world to Canada, Mexico, Sweden, The Netherlands, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The book itself went without me to all continents on the planet except Antarctica. It’s been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish, and Mandarin.
This little book became one of the very first digital books on Amazon’s original Kindle, an audiobook, and even a DVD for board members to use in their nonprofit board meetings. This book is now the foundation of an Ask Without Fear!® AI Fundraising Kit.
More importantly, it’s helped thousands of nonprofit board members, nonprofit leaders, and other accidental fundraisers raise money for the causes that are dearest to them. Whether it was the university in a $2 billion campaign or the high school junior fundraising for her soccer team, Ask Without Fear!® has helped normal people do just that – ask without fear.
And now, we are getting to give it a complete revision. I am so proud to be working again with the Page Two team. They were incredible in the design and publication of my latest book The Surprising Gift of Doubt. So I know how good they are in every aspect of editing, designing, and creating a book that is a delight to hold and read.
And now we get to work together to bring Ask Without Fear!® to even more people.
People running and supporting nonprofits are amazing. They deserve the best help they can get, whatever their budget. Ask Without Fear!® has been such a help for the past few decades. And with this upcoming revised edition, it will continue to help people for decades to come!
If you’ve read Ask Without Fear!®, I’d love to know: what stood out to you? What’s stuck with you all these years later? Tell me in the comments — it’ll help shape what stays and what gets sharpened in this revision.
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