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Finding Funding : Grantwriting from Start to Finish
Ernest W. Brewer, Charles M. Achilles, Jay R. Fuhriman, Connie Hollingsworth

Summary
The basics of grant writing from start to finish, including locating funding, internet choices, and project management, are packed into a reference which is filled with advice from grant-writing professionals. Plenty of examples of successful funding efforts are included throughout, from sample forms to analysis of the critical components of a proposal. Highly recommended.


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Greantseeker's Toolkit
Cheryl Carter New, James Quick of Polaris Corporation

Summary
Grants are a key source of support for most nonprofit organizations, particularly new organizations or those starting new programs. This guide, developed out of a series of seminars, helps grantseekers develop a strategic plan for finding funds for their programs. It outlines how to develop a program that will receive funding and provides the best methods for writing a grant proposal.


Grant Winner's Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation
Cheryl Carter New, James Aaron Quick

Summary
Based on their own experiences and the experiences of hundreds of nonprofit managers nationwide, authors James Quick and Cheryl New provide expert advice and guidance on managing every aspect of your funded projects with the consummate professionalism demanded by your funders - from the drafting of strategies and action plans to the drawing up of budgets, from staff recruitment and team building, all the way through to the writing of the next grant proposal.

They also arm you with an extensive arsenal of forms, checklists, time sheets, practice exercises, and other valuable tools." "The enclosed disk contains customizable forms covering all aspects of project management that make it easy for you and your team to put the methods described in the book to work in your organization.


Demystifying Grantseeking
Larissa Golden Brown, Martin John Brown

Summary
Take the fear out of grantseeking using this inspirational and instructional guide. The authors-successful grant-seekers in their own right-show how to overcome the common fears fundraisers often experience and offer sound, practical guidance to successful grantseeking.

The book offers specific advice about organizing the grantseeking process and helps readers develop a grant-seeking system that can be used each time they apply for a grant. The authors show the entire process from setting up the grantseeking office to creating documents that will be the building blocks from which all future grant applications can be quickly assembled. It gives readers a systematic and logical way of searching for grants and helps to identify which foundations to approach so fundraisers don't waste time on dead-end proposals.


Grantwriting, Fundraising, and Partnerships : Strategies That Work!
Charles M. Achilles Karen B. Ruskin

Summary
This comprehensive guide contains specific and practical information that will help you negotiate the often-confusing world of private sector grantwriting. It's a "how-to" book that will make it easier for you to get more money for your school. Every aspect of grantwriting is thoroughly discussed, from questions to ask before you begin to resources for grants available to educators.

Grantwriting, Fundraising, and Partnerships was written with you in mind. It has the facts and the tips you need to complete your successful grantwriting project.


How to Write Successful Foundation Presentations
Joseph Dermer








 

Grants for NonProfit Organization
Eleanor G. Gilpatrick

Summary
Written especially for professionals in nonprofit organizations, this is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to finding funds for programs and writing effective grant proposals. Gilpatrick bases her work on 10 years of experience in successful funding and teaching in the nonprofit sector. She takes the reader through every phase of the funding and grant writing process.

Notable for its comprehensive coverage and practical "hands-on" orientation to the subject, the book is also distinguished by its coverage of the specific areas of program planning and evaluation, topics usually ignored in other works on grant writing.


Winning Grant Proposals: Eleven Successful Appeals by American Nonprofits to Corporations, Foundations, Individuals, and Government Agencies
Gordon Jay Frost (Editor) Fund Raising Institute






The "how to" Grants Manual
David G. G. Bauer

Summary
The new edition incorporates changes and trends over the past five years in seeking and landing funding for education-based projects and institutions. It reflects the growing number of foundations with Web pages, using the Internet, the government trend toward online applications, recent statistics, and new resources. It includes worksheets, forms, sample letters, and examples. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


Grantseeking: A Step-by-Step Approach
Robert M. Zimmerman

Summary
This reference book explains in easy to understand language how to research and write a proposal to a foundation, corporation, government agency or religious donor, with an emphasis on private foundation grantwriting and exploration. It includes details on online and library research on foundation and government funding, a sample foundation research profile, a description of what funders want in a letter of intent with a sample, how to write a successful proposal, how to design a budget for all you need and how to follow up with grantors, and a section on the role of the board of directors in the grantseeking process. Included is an appendix with Zimmerman's Eleven Rules of Fundraising and a list of reference libraries.

Winning Grants Step by Step
Mim Carlson Support Centers of America Staff

Summary
The Support Centers of America has created the definitive self-help workbook that is a practical guide to writing persuasive and professional grant proposals. Written for both novice and experienced grantwriters, the workbook, rigorously fieldtested by SCA, is filled with practical advice and illustrative examples.


Corporate and Foundation Fundraising Manual for Native Americans
Phyllis A. Meiners Hilary H. Tun-Atz






Grant Proposals That Succeeded
Virginia P. White (Editor)







Grants, ECT.
Armand Lauffer

Summary

Has your program suffered from a lack of funding? Do you find that your fund-raising efforts are not yielding a healthy share of the resource pie? In Grants, Etc., Second Edition, author Armand Lauffer offers concrete evidence that the resources are out there - you just have to know where and how to find them. He emphasizes methods of expanding what has been viewed as a finite pool of resources by detailing innovative ways of targeting markets and aligning program goals.