Books
Holly was a writer for Film Arts magazine
where her column, Show Me the Money, provided
practical fundraising advice from the perspective of a working
filmmaker. Today, Holly also writes a column called Fear-Free
Fundraising for the indie film website SSF360.org’s Indie
Toolkit.
Holly has written/is writing the following books:
A Helluva Guide™ to Fear-Free
Fundraising:
How
to Ask People for Money
A Helluva Guide™ to Fear-Free Fundraising: How
to Ask People for Money takes the mystery out
of raising money from individual donors. If you’re
a staff or board member of a growing nonprofit—or anyone
who needs to ask someone else for money—Fear-Free
Fundraising will help you 1) visualize the steps to
introduce people to your organization, 2) actually take these
steps, and 3) go face to face to ask people to write checks! The
book is available for purchase on Amazon.com.
To purchase the e-version
of A Helluva Guide™ to Fear-Free Fundraising coming
soon.
Coming Soon! A Helluva Guide™ to Indie Film Fundraising
In A Helluva Guide™ to
Indie Film Fundraising,
veteran filmmaker and professional fundraiser Holly Million
draws a detailed road map of film-fundraising Hell, noting
the hazards and marking escape routes. Holly’s combined
knowledge of both fundraising and filmmaking creates the basis
for a solid guide based on proven tactics. Just proven tactics?
Nope, that’s not Holly’s style. This book is also
loaded with daredevil maneuvers, hair-raising stunts, and commando
moxie. Holly’s learned the hard way, via long, forced
marches through the inferno, and she’s got the scar tissue
to prove it. She knows traditional fundraising tactics are
not enough, especially in this hyper-competitive digital age
where abundant, cheap technology has made it impossible to
swing a dead cat without hitting another newly minted filmmaker.
That’s why Holly experiments with new tactics and breaks
the rules every single day as a working filmmaker and consultant
raising money for her own films and those of others. A
Helluva Guide™ to Indie Film Fundraising covers
the universe of fundraising sources, from individuals to foundations
to corporations to government funders as it gives an in-depth
look at all the tools in a filmmaker’s arsenal, from
letters to the Internet to killer proposals to kick-ass events.
Raising money for indie films used to be a trip through Hell.
With Holly’s help, it still may not be a walk in the
park, but at least now there’s a cooling breeze blowing
through the Valley of the Shadow. This much I know is true:
you will raise money for your film.
Upcoming Titles in A Helluva Guide™ Series
A Helluva Guide™ to Common Legal Mistakes Filmmakers Make
and How to Avoid Them
A Helluva Guide™ to Film Production from Idea to Internet
A Helluva Guide™ to International Film Shoots
A Helluva Guide™ to How Good Nonprofits Go Bad and How
Not to Follow Their Example (with Examples)
A Helluva Guide™ to Web 2.0 Tools for Fundraising
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