Step-by-step guidance on how to write effective grants that get the funding you need. Complete with examples of fully-completed proposals, you'll also get an easy-to-use companion website containing guide sheets and templates that can be easily downloaded, customized, and printed. The authors provide examples of completed proposals and numerous case studies to demonstrate how the grant-seeking process typically works. Order your copy today!

Are you a staff or board member of a nonprofit organization? Do you want your organization to be excellent? Are you a busy person?If you answered all three questions in the affirmative, How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization is the one book you need, one with more than a thousand practical tips. It was inspired by thousands of nonprofit agency professionals who have participated in workshops the author has led for more than twenty years. Each of the nine chapter...

Public Relations, Press Releases and Media Contact: Becoming Newsworthy and Getting Coverage by Robert King is a booklet with over 4,900 words. It covers all aspects of working with the media and getting coverage for your business, website, product, service, or event. This booklet will assist anyone with understanding the fundamentals of formulating a newsworthy event and preparing an effective press release to interest editors in their target market. King discusses the proper attitude, po...

If you or your organization is struggling to keep up with technology in your fundraising efforts, then The Art of Viral Fundraising is for you. Politicians, large non-profits, and big business all have one thing in common. They are using technology to increase sales, increase contributions, and expand their reach. Lets face it, the piece of the pie for small organizations keeps getting smaller. How do you get more? Simple, do what the very successful fundraisers do. Go viral, get online, a...

"...The mounting number of angry calls signaled James and his employees were starting to lose control of the business. Their QuickBooks accounting software and practice of using spreadsheets to manage projects and costs was buckling under the strain of an increased client load. If the problems continued, they could destroy the company."Would you like to leverage software to increase your profits? This modern-day business parable helps you understand the process of qualifying a solu...

Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important area.The New Public Governance? sets out to explore this emergent field of resea...

An expert’s inside look into the ways social entrepreneurship is changing the worldWhether you’re a policymaker, investor, or involved in a nonprofit, Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century gives you the knowledge you need to make the best possible decisions for the future. A former McKinsey consultant reveals how social entrepreneurship has filtered into the workings of government and private enterprise, where social sector values are now shaping “s...

This book contains the wisdom of 25 top grant writers who collectively raised $1.7 billion dollars during their careers, with over 400 years of combined writing experience on more than 24,000 grant proposals. In interviews with the author, they generously shared what they do, what they don?t do, and how they operate to consistently win.The author identifies 24 key elements that the experts use for successful grant development for non-profits. It's written for experienced non-profit...

Get noticed! Create a powerful online marketing platform that draws customers—and increases profitsThere are few guarantees in business today, but here’s one: If your message or product isn’t easy to find online, you won’t be in business very long.Whether you own a small business or plan to launch a new product or service, getting your message out to the right people has to be one of your top priorities. One of today’s top search marketing strategists, Ric ...

The Art of Governance is an essential guide for trustees in the performing arts and for the artists, managers, and community leaders who work with them. This book provides the larger context in which trustees govern—the art, artists, history, institutions, and national policies of the performing arts—and also explores more practical issues, such as board development, planning, finance, and fundraising. A wide range of distinguished artists, trustees, managers, and consultants have...

The CAE certificate is one of the most selective and unique credentials in business today. There are, in fact, only 4,000 Certified Association Executives, a mere 2.5% of all professionals managing associations and non-profit organizations. If you aspire to become one of them, it’s an excellent ambition. I’d like to help you succeed. This book is designed to do three things. First, it seeks to explain the CAE certification and its many benefits, in the hopes that you will join me in prepar...

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) to support their Level 3 Certificate in First Line Management. The learning content is also closely aligned to the Level 3 S/NVQ in Management. The series consists of 35 workbooks. Each book will map on to a course unit (35 books/units).