Grant Winner′s Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) - Softcover

Quick, James Aaron; New, Cheryl Carter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471332453 ISBN 13: 9780471332459

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

Provides guidance for managing a grants process after the grant has been won

"An ambitious, intelligent, and very readable guide to understanding our present and our future." Harry Beckwith, Principal, Beckwith Advertising and Marketing and the author of Selling the Invisible

Grant Winner′s Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation covers the key topics to securing future grants, and helps nonprofits make sure that they have responded to the priorities of the grant maker, those they serve, and their organization and its mission. The authors also show grant winners how to respond to the higher levels of accountability, entrepreneurship, and efficacy that today′s funders demand. Includes a disk with customizable forms to help organizations use the methods outlined in the book.

Cheryl New (Greenville, SC), President of Polaris Corporation, and James Quick (Greenville, SC), CEO of Polaris Corporation, have also coauthored Grant Seeker′s Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Finding Funding; Grant Seeker′s Desk Reference; Grant Seeker′s Directory of K–12 Funders; Grant Seeking Fundamentals; and Advanced Grant Seeking.

About this title

About the Author

JAMES AARON QUICK is CEO of Polaris Corporation. CHERYL CARTER NEW is President of Polaris Corporation,

From the Back Cover

Expert Tools and Techniques for Managing Funded Programs and Keeping the Grant Money Flowing in As anyone with a history in nonprofit management knows, a grant recipient’s job is far from over once the check is cut. That’s just when the real work begins. Especially now, when funders are taking a more active role in seeing that their money makes the desired impact, it is vitally important to the future of your mission that the programs under your stewardship succeed, beyond even your own expectations. Grant Winner’s Toolkit can help make that happen. 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 that will help you to successfully:

• Organize and manage a grantseeking initiative
• Write comprehensive action plans
• Develop winning project strategies
• Develop realistic budgets
• Find, hire, and manage qualified team members
• Manage all key project resources
• Evaluate project efficacy
• Implement and maintain a policy of continual program improvement
• Replicate programs

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.For more information about the Polaris Corporation visit www.polarisgrantscentral.net www.wiley.com/nonprofit

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0471332453
• ISBN 13: 9780471332459
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 392