"I'm beautiful books I like, and if, in addition to like you even try to want to teach, I close one eye and throw away. Conversely, bad books that I'm bored ... will be an injury, but I think that reading books is boring harmful to health "
(Carlo Lorenzini Collodi said)

And 'well with this premise in mind I try to write books. And 'one of my passions, writing what I put into practice in my daily work as a consultant in the large and small nonprofit organizations Italian. But try to do it without being complicated, even if I can, even in an entertaining way. In short, I believe that if something can be explained simply, there is no reason to make it difficult ... (you will say, "Obviously, as I assure you that universities sometimes the opposite happens. ... But a long story ...)

Write to me means to spread the daily practice in order to make that fund raising becomes increasingly a culture of all professionals and volunteers of nonprofit organizations and less a passing fashion or a set of elite culture.

In my books I try to transmit what I learned from reality and to make methodological experiences.
Through books I try to help develop the culture of fundraising in Italy.
Feel free to send me a comment if you read one of my books, my e-mail address is valerio@valeriomelandri.it

If you want to buy my books online directly from my blog or you can also find them in bookstores. For any information about you to write info@valeriomelandri.it

Here is a list of books written or edited by me

Farolfi Bernardino, Valerio Melandri
2008, the Mill

It 's a book we wrote together a group of professors from the University of Bologna and a few researchers. Although the issue does not appear to be useful to those who must carry out the activity "practice", "operator" of fundraising, I think the book contains the ideas really interesting because it's how we Italians were a people capable of giving, especially to raise funds . Unfortunately, too much state intervention was a bit '"asleep" the capacity of nonprofit organizations to raise funds and the result is seen especially a few decades after the Second World War. I recommend it because the reading is never boring, and indeed there may be ideas for "copy" of fundraising ideas that come directly from the Middle Ages ...
Buy online THE FUND RAISING IN ITALY

Marilyn Bancel
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

Describes the preparatory stages of raising campaign funds and is intended for professionals with leadership roles in fundraising for nonprofit organizations, but also to the Secretary-General, whose task it is to work on the strengths of companies. It can also help to volunteers who wish to be informed about what happens before the start of a collection of funds, to participate actively and give more strength to the company. The book is full of operational tools that are useful to all those working in nonprofit organizations.
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Edward C. Schumacher
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

A book that turns from the theoretical to the practical or clarifies how and whether the strategy of an organization to create a fund or foundation is best suited to the needs, requirements and potential fund-raising it.
Buy online FOUNDATION FOR COLLECTING FUNDS

Suzanne Irwin-Wells
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

A book that I edited the Italian edition is now published in the series Making fundraising editions of Philanthropy. The adaptation was not simply a translation but a long and not easy to translate too many experiences included in the U.S. within the context of the reality of today's fundraising Italian. We brought out a manual, this practical and theoretical, that teaches how to collect large donations, whatever the area where you work.
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Timothy L. Seiler
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

Even in this text I have edited the Italian edition and as I did for the previous translation work but a simple adjustment to the Italian context, thereby clearing the text of the examples too oriented fundraising "Made in USA". This handbook teaches the true basis of fundraising or build the case for fundraising, one of the basic steps to start the process of fundraising. A book that I am sure will help, as do the series of editions Fundraising Philanthropy development of fundraising in Italy.
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Joseph Chionetti, Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

A book I wrote with my colleague Joseph Chionetti is that it is the first practical manual (not theoretical) of how to use the phone as a tool for effective fundraising. There are other manuals of this type, specifically for fundraising and nonprofit marketing: a pioneering work that I would call (not by chance that I just founded a publishing house to publish practical books on fundraising) and where you can find a guide to using telemarketing office is for beginners and experts who want to improve techniques and applications.
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Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

"Materials" as a friendly call my colleagues this book is a book-cupboard, did not realize that I wanted to distribute it in bookstores, but as an accompaniment to my training on fund raising that I do a lot around Italy. "Materials" then is not a book to read, but a series of fact sheets and lists of things to do (extremely practical and simple) to address the fund raising ... just outside the course. In practice I have collected examples, cards, letters, phone calls of my hump decades of advice and I put them together into a single bound and graphically much more 'readable. Reading Materials alone without having done the course in fund raising or without a book to accompany most methodological (eg: The book of fund raising) may be useful but is not recommended. This book is also taken university courses in my book as "accompaniment."

Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

I wrote it in the summer of 2005 and I put away in a drawer. Every now and then withdraw it out, corrects some parts, and puts it back on. Man man the sorrow and regret that replacing a clear and "happy" memory of the Father, the prose is melted and the text became more cheerful (meaning "light"). I had no intention of publishing, but to print a few copies to give to relatives. Then I gave it to my wife Elizabeth, (to which my father was particularly close, perhaps gratitude for taking me ...) and my brother Roberto (the head of household) for a reading. I said 'Come, come .. Public. " I sent to Sen. Mancino (who was my father's colleague in the Senate before becoming Vice-President of the Superior Council of Magistrates), who showed me a long phone call to tell me that I should publish it at all, and that He would write her a note. What he has done, with great speed and passion. I was terrified, not conceal it, he wants to go to "steal someone" when he was just the opposite my goal: to give our all. After that, his life had taught me to "do things, but never get the limelight, not sure was a nice servizio.Non know if I succeeded.

Gianni Solfrini, Valerio Melandri
2007, Editions Philanthropy

Find a job in the nonprofit helps professionals understand and get the job you want. Part I describes the occupations of the nonprofit that you can go to play (also divided by area). Part II helps in finding and obtaining work: how to search for nonprofit organizations to work where and how to contact, how to write your CV and cover letter, how to overcome the selection (job interview, but also tests and group dynamics).
Buy online to find work in NonProfit

Valerio Melandri
2005, Guerini e Associati

This book, the result of extensive research, is the issue of accountability of nonprofit organizations. Here is the nice review that has made Life Magazine Nonprofit Number 8 July 2005: "Growing businesses and nonprofit organizations need to respond to growing public mistrust. With effective tools, and even lawyers. Here is the difference between responsibility and accountability: the liability can also be defined in an informal way, and is assumed but not accounted for, accountability is a formal system for verification of responsibilities, an arithmetic which is also a make accounts. That is a fact inherently relational to its stakeholders. Analysis, models and perspectives. "
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Red Henry, Eugene Temple, Valerio Melandri
2004, Rizzoli Etas

This book is the first born in my head, over 10 years ago, during my time in the United States. Economic conditions and the Italian publishers did not allow me time to realize this dream (bring Henry Red extent of all Italians, not just those who read English) but today has finally come true. This book is certainly the most beautiful, complete, clear and methodical book ever written on fund raising. I can say it aloud without committing the sin of immodesty, the fact that work I did was to Italianize and made suitable to the Italian territory, taking care of yourself (along with talented Sabrina Fusari) translation, and inserting some chapters specifically designed for fundraising in Italy. Henry Red (and its first and most important student Eugene Tempel) will remain in history as the founder of modern studies on fund raising, and have been asked to translate and adapt the text for the Italian market is a great honor.
Buy online THE BOOK OF FUND RAISING

Giorgio Vittadini, Valerio Melandri
2004, Guerini e Associati

Giorgio Vittadini (Professor of Statistics at the University of Milan Bicocca, and a man deeply involved in social and development of the nonprofit world in Italy) and I have devoted great effort to this research (the first ever built in Italy) who wants describe the figure of the fundraiser in Italy. I realized the whole approach to research based on my knowledge of the world of fund raising, while Giorgio Vittadini made the statistical analysis (with considerable skill, given the large amount of data products).
PROFESSIONAL buy online fundraiser or missionaries?

Alberto Masaccio, Valerio Melandri
2004 (second edition), Il Sole 24 Ore

The first book I wrote on fund raising, including Il Sole 24 Ore, having seen the enormous success (over 4000 copies sold) has a second edition just wanted to reprint in 2004. The book was born in 2000 in a world very different and in a context of fund raising very different from today. So now is a bit '. ... Dated, but still to read (perhaps secondarily) for steel and some ideas are timeless.
Buy online fund raising for nonprofit organizations

Gianni Solfrini, Valerio Melandri
2004, dupress editions

Besides my activities as a university teacher and fundraiser, the Facoltàò of Economics as a professor gave me an assignment institutional, or to create service careers (Careers Service) to help students meet the world of work. Together with his friend Gianni Solfrini Director of careers, of which I am the supervisor as a teacher, I realized the collection (including CD-ROM) of all slides (and a few more) of seminars held at the Faculty on job search. Each slide is annotated with a brief but reasonable comment in order to make the experience repeatable orientation. It is therefore a book for advisors and self-orientation of students to work. The book is no longer available, but there are equally valid texts published by Editions Philanthropy as from the foot to the shoe - Finding a job in the nonprofit .

Suzanne Ellis, Valerio Melandri
2003, Carocci Editore
(Released in 2002 in English under the title Volunteer Recruitment and Membership Development Book, Energize Book, San Francisco)

Here again it is an international collaboration. I was researching a book to help gather volunteers and did not know where to turn, so I came across Susan Ellis, an author clearly and simply never granted, an expert in gathering volunteers (people raising) which began a collaboration, first type consulting, and then resulted in this book, which I am very fond of, because it is really useful, but that did not go very well on the Italian market. Sin. Probably was too forward, and was released at a time when it was still felt that the links to gather volunteers.
Buy online PEOPLE RAISING

Gianni Solfrini, Valerio Melandri
2003 (second edition), dupress editions

A fundamental book for understanding what I think in terms of job search and guidance. I made a first edition from a few years ago and now, with the help of Gianni Solfrini we made a second edition, much more adequate and complete. The book was a real publishing success, given the topic, given the more than 6000 copies sold.
Buy online UNDERSTAND THE WORK, THE INVENT work, prosperity WITH THE WORK

L. Mambelli, R. Sapignoli, E. Zanelli, V. Melandri
2003, Monti Publisher

This book was born from the idea that you must begin studying the new fund-raising, the protagonists of fund raising, the world of fund raising and check directly methodologies, attitudes, trends and professionalism. It is the outcome of a study by Philanthropy Research Center, the professional fundraiser that was published in the book "Fundraiser: trader or missionary?" Initially was not my intention to make such a book, but after all spooled interviews and reread them we realized that we had the great wealth in her hands. Real testimonials from the "street" real, concrete, practical and highly motivating.
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Valerio Melandri
2001, Centre for International Documentation AICCON, Forlì

In 2001 in full swing to profit on the editorial, I suggested to AICCON with which we collaborate, to make a bibliographic collection of all the texts, articles and books on nonprofit and cooperation findable in the Library. The book went very well and although outdated (in recent years has left dozens of volumes not registered) is a photograph important for understanding the evolution of the nonprofit world in Italy.

Valerio Melandri
2001, Papers of Spis, Bologna

A thesis of a group of students in the Master Spis Bologna. It was so good that the Master asked me, and I gladly autorizzai, to be published as a volume in itself. Very practical and useful, even if forced, a little 'naive.

Francesco Orioli, Valerio Melandri
2000, Monti Publisher

A pamphlet (it is a few pages), perhaps a dense article that a real test, to discuss, together with a consultant Mac Kinsey, the problem of work and motivation. Much more work that's mine, Francesco Orioli, has also made his final thesis at the high school's college of excellence Sant'Anna (the famous "normal Pisa) where he was one of the best students. A wonderful experience working together.
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David E. Mason, Valerio Melandri
1999, Maggioli Publisher

The first and by far the most important for my career, the volume on the management of nonprofit organizations. And 'in fact my thesis plan, strongly adapted to the Italian territory. In 1999 use the word management in the nonprofit world was not an insult but I say almost. Nobody had ever heard of planning, strategy, soft variables, human resource management, mission, marketing and even fund raising. A book that has sold a lot and that was widely read, not least for her ahead of time.
Mason, I remember him as a teacher and collaborator really great fatherhood and friendship with him and I spent whole days to discuss what to do and every single sentence of the book. A book by now exhausted, and a little 'dated, but worth browsing.
Buy online THE MANAGEMENT Nonprofit

Valerio Melandri
1999, Fenacom, Rome

A summary of the first volume of the above, a purpose-built for Fenacom, the organization of Confcommercio, with whom I did a consulting job. A booklet has been a good Bignami for the management of fundraising management.

Valerio Melandri
1998, Monti Publisher

Just came home from America, I had some ideas in mind, developed mainly in the American thesis, which I tried to put pen to paper. Prof. Ardigo, one of the most famous sociologists of the time, read it and took an impression so positive, from wanting to write the introduction. There is still a great honor to have had the introduction of prof. Ardigo in a book (first on management's profit) to a young researcher who was at the time.
Buy online PARADOXES BUSINESS: NEW IDEAS FROM THE WORLD NonProfit

Valerio Melandri
1997 (first edition), published by Nautilus

The first edition of the book I mentioned earlier: to understand how important I think in terms of job search and guidance.
Buy online UNDERSTAND THE WORK, THE INVENT work, prosperity WITH THE WORK

Valerio Melandri
1997, University of Bologna - CEUR Foundation

To best describe how to build and which things were done to achieve a Careers Service, I realized this little booklet that was distributed to all who participated in our meetings at the Careers Service of Bologna.

Valerio Melandri
1996, Il Ponte Vecchio

My first book, definitely one to which are attached and tied. It is the story of my years in New York ... is the story of my semi-serious three years beautiful, terrible, dramatic and humorous of my life spent in Brooklyn (where I lived) and Manhattan (where I studied). A diary, not a diary, a collection of letters and impressions, full of sincerity and naivete on the American world.