The Foundation Centre has posted on it's website "The Ten Immutable Laws of the (Fundraising) Universe" by Carl Richardson. For the complete text, see http://fdncenter.org/pnd/tsn/tsn.jhtml?id=47800041 [4]. He writes: "In my years of working with a wide range of nonprofit organisations, I've learned that the universe of fundraising can be described by certain "laws," much like the physical universe is described by certain provable statements. Tested by experience, observation, and results, these laws of fundraising determine to a large extent the success of our efforts. If your capital campaign has stalled, your funding proposals routinely go unfunded, or your board has stopped working effectively, the laws described below may point you toward a solution."