From top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writing

Written by two expert authors who have won secured millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, The Only Grant-Writing Book You\'ll Ever Need is the classic book on grant seeking, providing a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for government, nonprofit, and individual grant seekers. Drawing on decades of experience in grant writing and professional development, Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox demystify the process of securing grants while offering indispensable advice from funders and recipients.
This updated fifth edition includes:

• Vital information about grantsmanship in today\'s ever-changing economic and social climate
• In-depth interviews with funders, nonprofit leaders, and policy makers about the grants process
• A new chapter on how to diversify funding and think \"outside the box\" when grants are scarce
• Concrete suggestions for developing each section of a proposal
• Hands-on exercises that let you practice what you learn
• A detailed description of important websites for grant seekers
• Strategies for developing and presenting programs that are likely to receive grants

Binding / Paperback: 448 pages

Publish Date: 5 November 2019

A popular fundraising blueprint for small- to mid-sized nonprofit organizations

In the newly revised Eighth Edition of Fundraising for Social Change, two nonprofit leadership veterans deliver a hands-on, how-to guide to establishing and expanding a diverse base of donors. The authors maintain a focus on groups working toward racial, economic, and climate justice, providing trustworthy and relevant information that can be easily understood.

The book includes a free Instructor's Manual, as well as access to supplementary online content with additional resources. Readers will also find:

• Spotlight sections highlighting the reflections and wisdom of a varied group of fundraisers
• Insightful explorations about managing fundraising, including establishing a fundraising infrastructure, hiring a development director, and using consultants and coaches
• Discussions of budgeting and planning, as well as how to handle significant financial trouble

An indispensable resource for nonprofit board members, managers, founders, and employees, Fundraising for Social Change is a must-read roadmap to raising money. It belongs on the bookshelves of leaders, activists and organizers seeking to advance racial, economic, environmental or social justice.

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Discover how to overcome anything, bootstrap, and go from initial concept to Series A funding with this firsthand look at entrepreneurship

Resilient delivers an invaluable collection of private journal entries mapping out a path from bootstrapping a multi-million dollar business to raising millions in Series A funding for another. Entrepreneur and Resilia CEO Sevetri Wilson describes her journey from self-funding to venture capital success. Written for ambitious and aspiring entrepreneurs like herself, Wilson covers a wide variety of topics about the entrepreneurial journey:

• How to go from idea to product
• The correct way to dive into the hiring process
• Preparing to raise money
• Building a tech company as a non-technical founder
• How to select the right accelerators, programs, and pitch competitions
• Creating wealth while building a business

The author also shares her "Simple Agreement for Future Equity" (SAFE) agreement and first pitch deck. Perfect for entrepreneurs, startup enthusiasts, and founders, Resilient belongs on the bookshelves of anyone interested in the process of bootstrapping and/or raising capital to grow a business in any sector.

About the Author

Sevetri Wilson is an entrepreneur and the founder of two companies: Solid Ground Innovations and Resilia. She bootstrapped her first company, SGI, to seven figures with zero capital and has raised over $11M to date for Resilia. She is the first Black woman in New Orleans to raise over $1MM in venture capital, and has raised the most of any female founder from her home state of Louisiana. She has been featured in Forbes, Black Enterprise, Essence, Inc., Entrepreneur, CNN, and USA Today.

Grant writers are by nature community changemakers. They are the 20% doing 80% of the work. They are the quiet leaders, knowing how to build teams, forge community partnerships, and develop ideas into well-planned projects.

Grant writers put heart and soul into everything they do. They work on things that matter. They want to have an impact and better their communities.

Before grant writers become known for their craft, however, they started with an idea and plenty of ambition. Those that succeeded took the time to learn the art of grant writing. Armed with this skill set, they were empowered to achieve their broader vision.

If this sounds like you, then you have come to the right place. What you will soon have in your hands is a distillation of the most important information you need to know about grant writing.

The book is structured with the first half answering the questions I am most frequently asked. The second half follows with the questions I wish you were asking. The book covers topics like:

• How to write a grant in seven steps,

• How to write a convincing narrative,

• Where to find grants to go after,

• How to avoid running out of time when applying,

• Where to find match funding, and

• How to prepare a grant budget (with bonus access to a free budget spreadsheet template ), and more.

This book will fast track your learning curve to become a talented grant writer. In addition, you will receive downloadable templates and discount access to our online grant writing courses.

Make grant writing your super power

"The book, 'How to Write a Grant' breaks down the complexity of grant writing so that anyone can learn to be a professional. It's refreshingly straightforward with a modern approach. As someone who works in grants day in and day out, I highly recommend." Gauri Manglik, CEO & Co-founder, Instrumentl

"As a busy Executive Director and mom of 3, I rarely find time to physically go to grant writing workshops. Meredith's book was the perfect answer to upping my grant search and writing game. Her style of writing is informative and easy to digest...Her extensive experience in the non-profit world was evident with her examples. I encourage any new or experienced grant writer to pick up a copy like I did. You are guaranteed to learn something valuable " - Calisa Kastning, Executive Director SkiKu

"I have been involved in grant writing for over 15 years and have read a lot of different grant writing books. Meredith has written one of the easiest books to read, it is fun and informative. She gives incredible advice, tools and resources beginning in the first chapter. The overall book is funny and engaging while providing the reader with the information needed to start, or continue, their grant writing career. The tools she includes, for free, are some of the best I have seen." - Pamela Graham, Matanuska-Susitina Borough

"I got lucky I had two grant applications to write seeking funds to continue an international art project. Both deadlines were coming up soon. I had already made a bunch of notes and had a (weak) draft narrative when I started reading Ms. Noble's book. Her insightful tips and her stress on a step-by-step approach provided exactly the breakthrough I needed to whip my grant into shape...I produced a document so obviously superior to what I would have on my own..." - Amazon Customer

Between 2012 and 2016, Mercer University Athletics (NCAA Division I member of the Southern Conference) experienced success on the field, expanded sport offerings, and achieved in the classroom. Building the Bear delves into the success of the Mercer Athletic Foundation - the fundraising arm of the Mercer Athletic Department charged with supporting 16 sport programs.

Topics covered include setting priorities and goals, developing programming, major gift strategies, donor cultivation and stewardship, drafting an annual calendar, marketing a fundraising operation and coordinating special events. One unique aspect of this read is the thinking behind football specific programming which came about with the return of Division I FCS football to Mercer's campus in 2013.

Written by Brian Gerrity, the Mercer Athletic Foundation Executive Director and Senior Associate Athletic Director, Building the Bear fills the gap between the classroom and workplace. Written in part to provide a resource for young development professionals, this is a must read for aspiring collegiate athletic administrators and sports management undergraduate and graduate students. This read is a combination of text and infographics and is a real-world example of the power of strategic thinking.

Building the Bear uses real life examples and actual strategies employed to raise funds at the Division I level. Part textbook and part case study, this read is concise, thoughtful, and packed with real world examples of the methodology behind athletic development. Building the Bear covers the steps taken to build a mid-major fundraising arm from a sleepy annual fund to a dynamic fundraising arm.

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Helping you successfully start a nonprofit organization the right way or strengthening the governing, financial, and capacity-building framework of your existing nonprofit organization!

Ready to do some good? Ready to give back to the community? You better be! Because in Nonprofit Kit For Dummies you'll find the tools and strategies you need to organize and shift your nonprofit into high gear. Buckle up and hit the gas as you master the latest techniques in nonprofit startup, recruiting the right board members, identifying collaborative stakeholders, grant writing, online fundraising, and marketing. You'll learn to improve your management practices, raise more money, give more effectively, and plan more creatively.

This book's supplementary online resources include expertly written organization plans, financial procedure outlines and guides, and event planning tools you can implement immediately to help your nonprofit help more people. It also walks you through how to:

• Find up-to-date info on the latest web-based campaign tools, like Kickstarter, Kiva, and others
• Use templates, checklists, and plans to organize your nonprofit's finances, employee relations, and legal structure
• Survive and thrive during challenging times, like those caused by pandemics and natural disasters

Starting and running a nonprofit organization takes heart, courage, and know-how. You've got the first two taken care of. Let Nonprofit Kit For Dummies help you with the knowledge as you lift your nonprofit to new heights.

Howard Snyder founded the Northwest Side Community Development Corporation in 1983 with a $20,000 loan to purchase an abandoned fire station. From that rough start, the CDC grew into a powerful force for community engagement, economic reinvestment, and job creation.

"Rarely has one individual played such a prominent role in one community for such a long time as Howard Snyder on Milwaukee's Northwest Side. The Northwest Side Community Development Corporation: A Story of Persistence, Adaptation, and Luck is not only the chronicle of a singular career but a guided tour of our nation's urban policy as it evolved over a period of forty years." -John Gurda, author of The Making of Milwaukee

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An exploration of how altruism affects us, what are the markers for success, and how to avoid the pitfalls--with scrupulous research and on-the-ground reporting from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky and Tightrope

About the Author
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband and wife, have coauthored three previous books: Half the Sky, Thunder from the East, and China Wakes. They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009. Now an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, Kristof was previously bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. WuDunn worked at The New York Times as a business editor and foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. She now works in banking.

Over 94% of U.S. public school teachers use personal funds to purchase instructional supplies to supplement student learning, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (2018). Teacher expenditures are also compounded by federal, state, and district budget cuts which impact teacher income and ability to make purchases with school funds. According to a survey taken by 3,938 U.S. public, private, and charter school teachers, teachers spent an average of $745 annually for supplies due to the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic (Karbowski, 2020). However, did you know over $400 billion dollars in grants were awarded in 2019? Equipping teachers with guidance, resources, and tools to develop grant writing skills will help strengthen support for student learning and alleviate the financial strain imposed on teachers.

12 Quick Steps to Writing Winning Classroom Grants coaches teachers how to leverage their knowledge of creating lesson plans to write a winning grant proposal. The workbook style text features chapter objectives, comprehension checks, grant examples, and templates as a step-by-step guide to producing a classroom grant.

12 Quick Steps to Writing Winning Classroom Grants provides teachers who have little to no grant writing experience with a foundational knowledge of grants, engages them in grant proposal development activities, and dispels common misconceptions about grant writing. Teachers will learn practical tips and strategies to effectively secure funding for their classroom and understand what funders look for when they make charitable investments.

12 Quick Steps to Writing Winning Classroom Grants covers the following objectives:

• Identify the major components of the grant lifecycle and grant application
• Describe the similarities between lesson plans and grant applications
• Identify funding sources
• Draft a basic grant proposal using enclosed grant writing templates to fund a classroom initiative to address students' need

If you are a...

• Teacher motivated to acquire external funding to support classroom initiatives that address students' need
• Teacher who has limited funding for classroom supplies or projects
• Teacher tired of spending personal funds to purchase classroom supplies and furniture
• Teacher who needs grant writing help
• Teacher who has limited time to attend a face-to-face grant writing school

12 Quick Steps to Writing Winning Classroom Grants will teach you how to leverage your knowledge of creating lesson plans to write a winning grant proposal.

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#1 bestseller for nonprofit fundraising and grants

This 2nd edition answers all your questions related to grant writing and the questions you want to ask like...

���� How do I build a career in grant writing?

���� What if the grant I write doesn't win?

���� How do I make time for this?

Here's what we want you to know: if you can think critically and commit to being the best version of yourself, you will succeed as a grant writing unicorn.

We often get ahead of ourselves, and fear overruns our hopes and dreams. But did you know that you can get started sooner than you realize? As soon as you close this book, you are ready. Marked with chocolate fingerprints, coffee stains, post-its, and highlights, you will feel confident and inspired to take action.

Freshen that cup of joe or tea my friend. We move quickly around here. You are on your way to becoming a Grant Writing Unicorn! ����

Many people who respond to God's calling set off on the journey before they create a plan to fund it. The mission is to do good, help people, and spread God's Word but without a funding plan they run out of resources long before they reach the finish line. Often the task of asking for money can be easy to push aside and even seem outside of God's call.

But God's call is complete. He understands the cost. Bills still need to get paid.

If this sounds familiar, Ask Without Fear^(R) for Christian Ministry is for you In these pages, fundraising expert Marc A. Pitman shows you how to fund your ministry. He also shares stories of fundraising straight from the Bible. And, as hard as it may be to believe right now, he even shows you how fundraising can be an enjoyable part of your calling

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How can growing churches develop a financial framework that will enhance their mission?

The declining trends in religious belief and practice in twenty-first-century America are well documented, but they mask the vitality and growth experienced by many individual congregations. Unfortunately, leaders of these growing churches sometimes lack a firm grasp on what's required for their church to maintain financial equilibrium. This is true for newly formed congregations as well as established churches.

This book, which does not assume readers' familiarity with principles of accounting or finance, will help facilitate constructive conversations between clergy and lay leaders on money matters. By describing in everyday language some of the practical issues that promote (or erode) financial sustainability, this book will remove the mystery and frustration faith communities often experience when discussing their financial challenges.

What activities within the organization's control promote long-term financial sustainability? The answers create a framework that is a prerequisite for meeting any church's missional objectives over the long run.

In School Fundraising: So Much More than Cookie Dough, Sandra Pfau Englund, Esq. turns her 20+ years of experience working with nonprofit groups into a comprehensive, easy-to-read, guide to the profits to be made - and the pitfalls to avoid - volunteering for your school's fundraising group. It's More than Cookie Dough is a must-have book for school administrators who work with the fundraising groups, and the for the volunteers who manage them.

School Fundraising: So Much More than Cookie Dough includes:

• More than 50 quick takeaways summarizing the do's and don'ts of school fundraising
• Over 20 "recipes for success" containing Sandy's insider tips for avoiding the pitfalls of starting and maintaining a school booster club, including how to get IRS 501(c)(3) status, what to if your group gets its exemption revoked, or you find out the booster club has never filed taxes
• Appendices chock full of sample documents and guidelines, form donation letters and receipts, budget worksheets and suggested financial

The book's companion website, www.morecookiedough.com, provides even more tools, tips and bonus material to make managing school fundraising groups easier than ever before.

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Strong grant proposal writing made easy

From small startups to established national organizations, nonprofits large and small depend on grant funding to survive and thrive. Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and Writing Successful Proposals has long been the go-to resource for individuals and organizations looking for a clear, easy-to-follow approach to tackling the grant-writing process and winning funds. Now, in this revised Fifth Edition, changes and developments in the not-for-profit sector are integrated into the time-tested grant-writing formula that has proven effective time and again.

New to this edition, you'll find an expanded discussion of the importance of relationship building, social media, and online resources to successful nonprofit funding. The text has also been revised to include guidance for nonprofit program budgets for both foundation and public funding grants. Never before has Winning Grants Step by Step been so easy to comprehend. Updated worksheets and forms will improve your comprehension and make your grant proposals stronger and more successful than ever.

• Learn the proven step-by-step approach to writing strong grant proposals for foundation grants and public funds
• Complete worksheets and activities to practice your grant-writing skills and break the process down into easy pieces
• Understand how to integrate your ideas and insights with research and facts to demonstrate your organization's potential

• Learn the best approaches to building relationships and networking both in-person and online to push strong grant proposals into the winner's circle

This guide is perfect as an introduction for the novice grantseeker or a refresher for the more experienced. Whether your organization needs only a thousand dollars or several million, following this step-by-step process will improve your ability to transform an idea that needs financial support into a proposal that deserves to be funded.

About the Author

Tori O'Neal-McElrath is the Vice President of External Affairs at Demos, a United States based nonprofit think-and-do tank that combines research, policy development, and advocacy to influence public debate and catalyze change.

Lynn Kanter is a consultant for national nonprofits, writing and editing a broad range of fundraising, communications, and organizational outreach materials.

Lynn English is a strategy and resource development consultant in fundraising, strategic planning, and program development for community-based and national nonprofit organizations and foundations.

Calling all changemakers

Open your mind, and buckle up for a bumpy ride through a truth-telling journey about the dysfunctional relationship between foundations and nonprofits. We all know that it's broken. So why haven't we fixed it?

Enter the Unicorns.

Join unicorns Jane Leu, Vu Le, and Jessamyn Shams-Lau for a nitty-gritty, inside look at how foundations and nonprofits relate today, and why we're stuck in the status quo. Next, get ready for a rocket-ship ride to a future filled with EPIC Partnerships grounded in equality, trust, and creativity; partnerships to help us think bigger, bolder, and better about social change. Finally, make it happen Roll up your sleeves and dive into a series of fun and thought-provoking exercises for you to do and discuss with your team, your partners, and your board.

Unicorns Unite is a whimsical journey through a challenging conversation that could hold the key to slaying the dragons of injustice and inequity once and for all.

About the Author

High school dropout turned MBA, Jessamyn Shams-Lau currently co-creates and stewards the Peery Foundation's Grantee-Centric approach to philanthropy. Jessamyn is an advocate for interdisciplinary approaches, thoughtful risk taking, and bold ideas developed through apprenticing with a problem. Jessamyn joined the Peery Foundation as its first non-family staff member in 2009, helping to shape the Foundation's initial approach and portfolios. Currently, as Executive Director, Jessamyn shapes and supports the Peery Foundation team, develops and guides overall strategy, and brings the Foundation Board's vision to life. Jessamyn utilizes her experience as part of the founding Ashoka U team in her hands-on role as a Board. Member of BYU's Ballard Center, where she has created curriculum now taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Jessamyn serves as an advisor to Ashoka U and GrantAdvisor. Jessamyn has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts London and an MBA from Brigham Young University. She lives in the Bay Area with her ridiculously funny husband, defiant house rabbit, and two tiny hamsters. She used to have a mohawk haircut, she met her husband on Tinder, and her favourite Christmas movie is Die Hard 2.

An Ashoka Fellow, the Founder of Upwardly Global and Smarter Good, and four other social sector start-ups, Jane Leu is intrigued by problems and their solutions. Known for both strong vision and execution, Jane has more than twenty years of entrepreneurial leadership of migration-related organizations. The common theme across her ventures is that they leverage the private sector to ensure that migration creates economic benefit for individuals, families, companies and countries. She is a Lecturer in Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Venture Partner, and has been on the advisory boards of Ashoka U, Joshua Venture, the Peery Foundation and the Migration Policy Institute, among others. Jane's contributions and leadership have been recognized by BYU Social Innovator of the Year Award, John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and the Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneur Award, among others. She holds a MA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a BA from Tufts University.

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Vu Le ("voo lay") is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle with the mission promoting social justice by supporting leaders of color, strengthening the capacity of communities-of-color-led nonprofits, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Vu's passion to make the world better, combined with a low score on the Law School Admission Test, drove him into the field of nonprofit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. There's tons of humor in the nonprofit world, and someone needs to document it. He is going to do that, with the hope that one day, a TV producer will see how cool and interesting our field is and make a show about nonprofit work, featuring attractive actors attending strategic planning meetings and filing 990 tax forms. Known for his no-BS approach, irreverent sense of humor, and love of unicorns, Vu has been featured in dozens, if not hundreds, of his own blog posts at nonprofitaf.com.

• Cincinnati Police Department
• National Association of Women in Construction
• 100+ Nonprofit Organizations (ranging from Youth Inspiration Nation to Life Child)
• Guam Women's Chamber of Commerce
• University of North Dakota, Bachelor of Social Work program
• Columbia Southern University
• University of Guam, Professional Writing Course

"[This book] has inspired and encouraged me to pursue my own dreams of becoming a nonprofit organization and a freelance grant writer... I love the way she sets the tone in this beginner's guide book to help ease our minds."
La Tondra Lewis, student at Columbia Southern University

"I always view a business book as worthwhile if I get a minimum of seven good to great ideas from the book. I got far more GREAT ideas from GRANT WRITING. Also, don't let the title fool you, the book is for ANYONE who wants to successfully write grants, not merely those that are beginning in the field."
Kirk Whistler, Latino Literacy Now

"Great resource for all those befuddled by the grant writing process. Holly does a wonderful job of breaking down the process and giving some great tips and tools to enable your success."
Dr. Jeffrey Rodman, Here-4-You Consulting

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IS FUNDRAISING FUN FOR YOU?

Are your board members beating down your door with new donors that are ready to make a gift? If that's not your reality yet, international fundraising trainer Marc A. Pitman's "Ask Without Fear " is for you

In this fun, easy-to-read book, he:

• Explains in a step-by-step, easy to remember process how to build authentic relationships with your donors -- and help them connect with your cause in the way that matters most to them
• Identifies time-tested research tools to help you plan your fundraising campaign
• Exposes the 7 most common fundraising mistakes -- and how to avoid them
• Shows how to become skilled at identifying a person's personality traits and tailoring your message to fit their personality -- even on the fly

Perfect for nonprofit employees and board members, Ask Without Fear helps you move your fundraising from a static, one-way, organization-centered monologue to a dynamic, donor-centered, two-way dialogue. This book gives you the tools to raise serious money for your favorite cause

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Managing a chamber of commerce and providing leadership in a community have never been more challenging. Navigating complexity is certainly more than showing up at a picnic and tossing a horseshoe, hoping to get a ringer. It takes intelligence, strategy, and focus to win prosperity.

In Horseshoes vs. Chess, veteran chamber executive and former mayor Dave Adkisson shares the insights he gained from more than 40 years observing chambers of commerce - as a CEO of three very different chambers (a small city chamber, a metro chamber, and a state chamber), as a two-term mayor of his hometown, as a former assistant to a U.S. Senator, and as a chamber leader on the national level.

Horseshoes vs. Chess offers the lessons Adkisson wishes he had known when he started. He explores four distinct aspects of living in "Chamber World: "

• Chamber Leaders' Distinct Personalities and Skill Sets
• Chamber Leaders Building Their Chambers to New Heights
• Chamber Leaders Helping Shape Their Communities
• Chamber Leaders Growing Professionally

With compelling stories of victories as well as disappointments, Adkisson celebrates the incredible opportunity chamber leaders have to help their chambers and communities navigate modern challenges and gain greater prosperity.

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The Wise Guide to Winning Grants provides complete instruction in the research and writing techniques that lead to winning grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies, as well as major gifts from individuals. The process is described step-by-step with numerous real-life examples in an easy-to-read conversational style.

You'll learn how to make your proposals stand out from the crowd and avoid common mistakes. Whether you work in social services, health, the arts, youth services, or education, or if you're an entrepreneur seeking start-up funding, this book will provide the information you need to succeed.

You will learn how to:

- Find the best prospects to fund your organization

- Write a persuasive grant proposal that contains all the essential information

- Create a budget that will inspire confidence

- Manage the research, grant writing, and reporting processes

- Get started as a freelance grant writer.

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Written specifically for nonprofit trustees, professionals, and donors, Agencies of Cash Flow provides an innovative approach to raising and investing long-term money for foundations and endowments.

FUNDRAISING - Money In Motion - focuses on capturing assets in transition, wealth transferring at death, and liquidity-generating business transactions. Planned giving solutions are based upon a patron's emotional motives, tax circumstances, and estate planning needs. Readers will learn these financial strategies to incent supporters to provide large gifts for sustainable revenue.

INVESTING - Modern Portfolio Theory - teaches how to combine cash, bonds, and stocks into diversified investment portfolios to meet long-term revenue needs.

GOVERNING - 7 Standards of Care - reviews the financial stewardship processes to achieve compliant and optimum long-term results. Readers learn how to document decision-making and how to create an Investment Policy Statement to match portfolios with expenditure needs.

Agencies of Cash Flow is an easy-to-use management tool for those wishing to apply wealth management practices for philanthropy.

Are you overwhelmed on how to do nonprofit program evaluation?

You're not alone. Chari's here to help

There are many ways to do program evaluation, making it difficult to know how to start. In this book, Chari outlines a clear approach, filled with real world stories as well as examples of evaluation plans, surveys, and reports.

Key topics addressed:

• Understand how to build buy-in for evaluation and address staff resistance and make a realistic program evaluation plan
• Create measurable outcomes for both grant applications and to guide program improvement
• Develop an impact and/or logic model that visually communicates what your program does and the difference it makes
• Create useful surveys that measure what matters
• Understand the choices in how to manage your data - spreadsheets v. database solutions
• Basic data analysis and reporting to make meaning of your data

Included with the book is a link to a companion website filled with downloadable real world examples and templates.

About Chari Smith

Chari Smith believes evaluation should be accessible, practical and usable. She founded Evaluation into Action to help nonprofit professionals create realistic and meaningful program evaluation processes. She has taught several workshops helping nonprofit professionals understand the value and use of program evaluation. She is also a wife, mother, jazz pianist, singer/songwriter, and devoted yogi.

Here's What People Are Saying about Nonprofit Program Evaluation Made Simple

The ability to measure impact and share that success with the world is foundational to a thriving nonprofit and unlocks doors leading to visibility and funding. Leaders mistakenly believe that the process is too expensive, too timing consuming or that their kind of work can't be measured. Chari's approach to program evaluation will bust these myths and unlock these doors - offering a simple and accessible approach to your efforts to invite more people to know more and do more for your cause. Joan Garry, Author of Nonprofits are Messy, Principal at Joan Garry Consulting, and Founder of Nonprofit Leadership Lab

Understanding your organization's impact requires using data to learn and improve on a regular basis and that can be a daunting task. In this book, Chari Smith has demystified the process of creating an effective evaluation process for nonprofits. The book offers many practical tips that will help your organization improve results. Beth Kanter, Virtual Facilitator, Trainer, and Author

Making the complex simple, the complicated doable, the abstract concrete, and the frightening friendly takes a special combination of expertise, experience, and communications skill. Chari Smith brings all that and more to this accessible, important, and insightful book. Read, learn, and engage. Michael Quinn Patton, Founder and CEO, Utilization-Focused Evaluation

This book provides an excellent blueprint for nonprofits to follow as Smith outlines all the necessary steps to get from the idea phase of evaluation to creating reports and communicating the data in a way that shows impact of your program(s) that stakeholders, community members and funders will all understand and appreciate. Jean Hansen, Vice President - School Partnerships and Youth Outreach

Special Olympics Oregon

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An insider's guide to the coming philanthropic revolution

Meet the next generation of big donors--the Gen X and Millennial philanthropists who will be the most significant donors ever and will shape our world in profound ways. Hear them describe their ambitious plans to revolutionize giving so it achieves greater impact. And learn how to help them succeed in a world that needs smart, effective donors now more than ever.

As next gen donors step into their philanthropic roles, they have not only unprecedented financial resources, but also big ideas for how to wield their financial power. They want to disrupt the traditional world of charitable giving, and they want to do so now, not after they retire to a life of philanthropic leisure.

Generation Impact: How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving pulls back the curtain on these rising next gen donors and the Impact Revolution they seek, offering extensive firsthand accounts and expert analysis of their hands-on, boundary-pushing strategies, as well as their determination to honor the legacies they've inherited and the values they hold.

This Updated and Expanded edition includes new, practical resources designed to help those who work with next gen donors to engage with them in even more productive and effective ways - to help them become the sort of transformational donors we all need them to be in this pivotal time. Three Best Practice Guides offer targeted tips for key audiences - nonprofits and fundraisers, families, and advisors - and introduce new data and additional featured donors. A new Preface answers the most pressing questions asked by the thousands of readers already energized by Generation Impact, including what has changed in the world in recent years and how these influential emerging donors are responding.

Adapting to the revolution that next gen donors are bringing may not be easy, but this book can help.

About the Author

SHARNA GOLDSEKER is today's leading expert on next generation and multigenerational family philanthropy. A next gen donor herself, she offers a trusted insider's perspective. As Founder of 21/64, a nonprofit practice serving philanthropic and family enterprises, Sharna has created the industry's gold standard tools for transforming how philanthropic families define their values, collaborate, and govern.

MICHAEL MOODY helps people navigate today's complex world of giving and social innovation. He holds the world's first-ever endowed chair for family philanthropy, the Frey Foundation Chair at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University. A well-known commentator on the vital role that philanthropy plays in our lives, he is coauthor of Understanding Philanthropy: Its Meaning and Mission and The Philanthropy Reader.

Most conversations about fundraising focus on receipts, outreach, stewardship, and strategy. But very few discuss building the confidence to make that first ask. The Fundraiser: Fundraisers Aren't Born, They're Built answers the big questions on everyone's mind: What do I do when someone says no? Who do I call? How do I keep fundraising?

Author Meredith White guides readers on the daunting task of facing one's fears and gaining the confidence to raise money through personal stories and experiences as well as anecdotes from professionals.

The Fundraiser is a non-fiction book that speaks to fundraising novices and anyone afraid of talking to strangers. It's for those who are looking to level up and make that big (or even small) fundraising ask for the first time. You don't have to be afraid of fundraising because you are a fundraiser.

Meredith White is a veteran political fundraiser with over a decade of experience. From PACs, senators and presidential campaigns to Capitol Hill and corporate suites, she decided to put her knowledge and experience to good use in her first book The Fundraiser: Fundraisers Aren't Born, They're Built. Armed with the right tools and her enthusiastic personality, she believes that her guide can make even the shyest introvert become an expert fundraiser.

When not writing or working, White loves to travel, juggle multiple art projects, spend time with friends, and is perpetually reminding everyone to vote.

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The Little Book of Gold is a practical and step-by-step guide to professional fundraising. It's dedicated to helping small (and very small) non-profits unlock their fundraising potential. Avoid common pitfalls and get tips on proven methods that work. This book has helped thousands of nonprofits improve their fundraising.

This short guide helps new Executive Directors, active board chairs, and other key staff in charge of fundraising to learn the basics of professional and sustainable fundraising. Geared specifically for non-profits with small and very small budgets (a few hundred thousand dollars a year down to the smallest budgets).

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About the Author
When he was just 23, Erik Hanberg was hired to run a non-profit arts organization with an annual budget just over $600,000. Two years later, he had increased the budget to $800,000, and increasing fundraising more than 400%. Since then he has worked in development at a multi-million dollar non-profit, and has volunteered on many boards. He is currently the Executive Director of a small civic non-profit and sits on the distribution committee for a foundation that gives away more than $200,000 a year. In 2011, he was elected to a six year term on the Metro Parks Tacoma Board of Commissioners.

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New crowdfunding guide Just a few short years ago, if you wanted to produce a new gadget or raise money to make an independent film, you had no choice but to scrape together funding on your own ... or hope a generous friend or relative might put up seed capital. These days, there's a new approach: crowdfunding. Sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe can not only help you raise money to fund your idea or cause, they can also help you establish a community of enthusiastic supporters.

In Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes, author and crowdfunding expert Michael J. Epstein explains how to plan and execute a successful crowdfunding campaign. In a single sitting, you will learn about the different types of crowdfunding projects that are possible, including entrepreneurial startups, creative or artistic projects, charities and community causes, individual support campaigns, and patronage funding.

This crowdfunding book covers budgeting basics as well as goal-setting, not to mention the importance of preparing professional-looking campaign assets such as video clips, photographs, and calls-to-action. The author explains how to design reward tiers that not only attract backers, but also won't bankrupt your budget. Other topics include:

• Determining how much money you can raise
• Pros and cons of platforms including Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe, Patreon, and more
• All-or-nothing campaigns vs. partial funding campaigns vs. patronage systems
• How to plan and budget a crowdfunding campaign
• Time requirements for organizers
• Hidden costs, from shipping to backer melt
• Taxes and legal requirements
• Best practices for tiered rewards
• Telling your story with images, video, and text
• Ten top tips for creating a great campaign video
• Six tips for an effective text pitch
• Nine best practices for tiered rewards
• Why campaigns fail: 10 pitfalls to avoid
• How to keep momentum going in a lagging campaign
• The art of communicating with crowdfunding backers

Throughout Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes, Epstein cites his extensive experience organizing crowdfunding campaigns as well examples from some of the hundreds of other campaigns he has backed. If you have been dreaming about launching your own crowdfunding project, this crowdfunding book will be an invaluable guide. Order it today

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