"I'm beautiful books I like, and if, in addition to like it, you feel even want me to instruct, I close one eye and throw away. Conversely, bad books that I'm bored ... It will be a prejudice, but I believe that reading books is boring harmful to health "
(Carlo Lorenzini, known as Collodi)

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

Writing for me is to spread the practice daily to make sure that fund raising is becoming increasingly a culture of all professionals and volunteers of nonprofit organizations and less a passing fad or a set of elite culture.

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

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

Here is a list of books written or edited by me

Farolfi Bernardino, Valerio Melandri
2008, the Mill

It 'a book that we wrote together a group of teachers from the University of Bologna and a few researchers. Although the issue does not seem to be useful to those who must carry out the activity "practice", "operational" to raise funds, I believe the book contains some ideas really interesting because it makes us understand how Italians were able to give a people and especially to raise funds . Unfortunately, too much state intervention has a little '"asleep" the capacity of nonprofit organizations to raise funds and the result can be seen especially in a few decades after the Second World War. I recommend it because reading is never boring, in fact there may be cues for "copy" of fundraising ideas that come directly from the Middle Ages ...
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Marilyn Bancel
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

Describes the preparatory stages of the capital-raising campaign and is aimed at professionals in the fundraising with leadership roles in nonprofit organizations, but also to the Secretaries General, which has the task of working on the strengths of the companies. It can also help to volunteers who wish to be informed about what happens before the start of a collection of capital, to participate actively and to 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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by Edward C. Schumacher
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

A book that turns from the theoretical to the practical that clarifies how and whether the strategy of an organization to create a fund or foundation is best suited for the needs, the needs and potentials of the same fund-raising.
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by Suzanne Irwin-Wells
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

A book that I edited the Italian edition in the series is now published by Edizioni Making Fundraising Philanthropy. The adaptation was not a simple translation, but a long and not easy to translate too much experience in the U.S. placed in the context of today's reality of fundraising Italian. The result was a manual, too practical and not theoretical, it teaches how to collect large donations, regardless of the area where you work.
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Timothy L. Seiler
Italian edition edited by Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

Even in this text I have edited the Italian edition, and as I did for the previous translation work, but a simple adaptation to the Italian context, thus clearing the text of the examples too oriented fundraising "Made in USA". This handbook teaches the true basis of fundraising or to 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 the series of editions Making Fundraising Philanthropy development of fundraising in Italy.
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Joseph Chionetti, Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

A book I wrote with his colleague Joseph Chionetti is that it is the first practical manual (not theoretical) of how to use your phone as a fundraising tool effectively. There are other manuals of this type, specific for fundraising and nonprofit marketing: a pioneering work that I would call (in fact I founded a publishing house to publish only practical books on fundraising) and where you can find a guide to using Social telemarketing for both beginners and advanced users who want to perfect the techniques and applications.
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Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

"Materials," as they call my friendly co-workers this book is a book-pantry, I wanted to make not to distribute it in the library, but as an accompaniment to my training on fundraising, which I often do around Italy. "Materials" so it's not a book to read, but a series of fact sheets and lists of things to do (extremely simple and practical) to address the fund-raising ... just outside the course. In practice, I've collected examples, cards, letters, phone calls of my hump decades of advice and I put them together in a single text and graphically bound much more 'readable. Reading Materials on its own without having done the course in fundraising or without accompany him to read a book more methodological (eg: The Book of fund raising) may be useful, but is not recommended. This book is also taken in my college courses as a book of "accompaniment".

Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

I wrote this text, in the summer of 2005 and I put it away in a drawer. Every now and then withdrew it out, it corrects some parts, and put it back on. Man man with pain and regret that it replaced a serene 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 fond of, perhaps gratitude for taking me ...) and my brother Robert (the householder), for a reading. I said "Come on, come .. public ". I sent to Senator Mancino (which was my father's colleague in the Senate, before becoming Vice-President of the Superior Council of Magistrates), which I did 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 hide it, to go through what he wants "someone to take over" when the opposite was my goal, "given away" at all. After that, his life had taught me to "do things, but never get the limelight," would certainly not have been a nice servizio.Non know if I succeeded.

Gianni Solfrini, Valerio Melandri
2007, published by Philanthropy

Finding work in the nonprofit helps to understand the profession and to get the job you want. Part I describes the occupations of the profit that you can go to play (also divided by sector). Part II helps in finding and obtaining work: how to search for nonprofit organizations where they can work and how to contact, how to write a curriculum vitae and cover letter, how to overcome the selection (job interview, but also tests and group dynamics).
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Valerio Melandri
2005, Guerini e Associati

This book, the fruit of a long research work deals with the issue of accountability of nonprofit organizations. Carry the good review that has made Life Magazine Nonprofit in the number of 8 July 2005: "Growing businesses and nonprofit organizations need to respond to the growing distrust of the public. With effective tools, and even legal. Here is the difference between responsibility and accountability: the liability can also be defined in an informal way, and it is assumed but not accounted for, accountability is a formal system for the verification of responsibilities, an arithmetic which is also done the accounts. That is a fact intrinsically relational towards its stakeholders. Analysis, models and perspectives. "
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Henry Red, Eugene Temple, Valerio Melandri
2004, Rizzoli Etas

This book is the first born in my head, more than 10 years ago, during my time in the United States. The economic and Italian publishers did not allow me time to realize this dream (Red Henry bring within the reach of all Italians, not just those who read English) but today has finally come true. This book is definitely the most beautiful, complete, clear and methodical book ever written on fundraising. I can say out loud without incurring the sin of immodesty, because the work I did was to make it suitable Italianized and the Italian territory, taking care of myself (along with the talented Sabrina Fusari) translation, and inserting a few chapters specifically designed for the fund-raising in Italy. Red Henry (and his first and most important pupil Eugene Tempel) will remain in history as the founder of modern studies on fund raising, and have been commissioned to translate and adapt the text for the Italian market is a great honor.
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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 work and development of the nonprofit world in Italy) and I have a strong commitment to this research (the first ever built in Italy) who wants describe the role of fundraiser in Italy. I realized the whole set of research based on my knowledge of the world of fund raising, while Giorgio Vittadini, has realized the statistical analysis (with considerable skill, given the large amount of data products).
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Masaccio Alberto 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 just wanted to reprint a second edition in 2004. The book was born in 2000 in a world very different and in a context of fund raising is very different from today. So now is a bit '.... Dated, but still be read (perhaps secondarily) for steel and some ideas are always valid.
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Gianni Solfrini, Valerio Melandri
2004, dupress editions

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

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

Here, too, is an international collaboration. I was researching a book to help collect and volunteers did not know where to turn, so I came across Susan Ellis, an author simple and clear never a given, 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. Too bad. Probably he was too forward, and was released at a time when it was still so felt the links to gather volunteers.
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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 carried out a second edition, much more adequate and complete. The book was a real publishing success, given the topic, considering the more than 6000 copies sold.
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L. Mambelli, R. Sapignoli, E. Zanelli, V. Melandri
2003, Monti Publisher

This book was born from the idea that you must begin to study the new fund-raising, the protagonists of fund raising, the world of fund raising and check directly methodologies, attitudes, trends, professionalism. It is the result of a study by Philanthropy Centro Studi, the professional fundraiser that was published in the book "Fundraiser: professional or missionary?": Initially it was not my intention to make such a book, but after all transcribed interviews and re-read them, we realized that we had the great wealth in his hands. These are 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 of the nonprofit publishing initiatives, proposed to AICCON with whom I collaborated, 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 even though they have passed (in recent years there have appeared dozens of volumes that are 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 of Bologna. It was so good that the Master asked me, and I willingly I authorized, to publish it as a volume in itself. Very practical and useful, even if forced, a little 'naive.

Francesco Orioli, Valerio Melandri
2000, Monti Publisher

A little book (it is a few pages), perhaps the most dense article that a real essay, discuss, together with a consultant Mac Kinsey, the labor problem and its motivation. Much more work of his that I, Francesco Orioli, has also made his final thesis at the high school of the college of excellence Sant'Anna of Pisa (the famous "plain of Pisa") which was one of the best students. A good experience of working together.
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by David E. Mason, Valerio Melandri
1999, Maggioli Publisher

The first, and definitely the most important for my career, volume on the management of nonprofit organizations. And 'in fact, my thesis American, heavily adapted for the Italian territory. In 1999, using the word management in the nonprofit world was not an insult, but I say almost. No one had ever heard of planning, strategy, soft variables, human resources management, mission, marketing and even fund raising. A book that has sold a lot and it was widely read, even and especially for her ahead of time.
Mason, I remember him as a teacher and collaborator really great fatherhood and friendship and I spent entire days with him to discuss what to do and every single sentence of the book. A book out now, and even a little 'dated, but well worth browsing.
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Valerio Melandri
1999, Fenacom, Rome

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

Valerio Melandri
1998, Monti Publisher

As soon as I came home from America, I had some ideas in mind, developed mainly in the U.S. thesis, which I tried to put pen to paper. The prof. Ardigo, one of the most famous sociologists of the time, read it and took an impression so good, to want to write the introduction. There is still a great honor to have had the introduction of prof. Ardigo in a book (first on the non-profit management company) which I was a young researcher at the time.
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Valerio Melandri
1997 (first edition), published by Nautilus

The first edition of the book I mentioned before, fundamental to understanding how to think in terms of job search and guidance.
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Valerio Melandri
1997, University of Bologna - CEUR Foundation

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

Valerio Melandri
1996, The Old Bridge

My first book, much more than that to which they are attached and tied. It is the story of my years spent in New York ... is the story of my semi-serious three years beautiful, terrible, tragic and humorous in my past life in Brooklyn (where I lived) and Manhattan (where I studied). A diary, diary, letters and a collection of impressions, full of sincerity and naivete on the American world.