title: Fund-raising tips for nurse leaders and nurse executives.
abstract: Fund-raising may be new to most nurse leaders and executives. This article focuses on dispelling the myths and mystery that surrounds nursing philanthropy. Key myths are addressed with supporting information to dispel them. Several practical tips are presented to enhance nurse leaders' involvement in philanthropy. Two recent gifts to hospital nursing departments are described as exemplars of relationship building and of nurses investing in their own future and that of the profession.
authors.affiliation: Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
authors.forename: Joyce J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fitzpatrick
mesh_terms: D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods; D005653:Fund Raising / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000191:economics*