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BOOK TITLE AND AUTHOR NAME

BOOK ELECTRONIC (E-BOOK)

Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer: A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding
By: Joanne Oppelt
Published By: Charity Channel Press

Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer will help you to: Understand various funder motivations; relate to funders in language they understand; discover new prospects; build successful relationships; write proposal narratives; present effective budgets; work with organizational and program staff; and position you and your agency for success.

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Evaluation Techniques for Difficult to Measure Programs: For Education, Nonprofit, Grant Funded, Business and Human Service Programs
By: Javan Ridge

Evaluation Techniques for Difficult to Measure Programs demonstrates the weaknesses of poorly crafted outcome measures and provides the reader with techniques to strengthen programs and provide clients with the quality services they deserve. Programs with difficult to measure outcomes provide inviting environments for weak evaluations and this book illustrates why typical evaluation methods result in less than stellar results. Examples from difficult to measure programs are used to present techniques that can make any evaluation more rigorous. This book will guide the reader in overcoming inappropriate measures, false perceptions and misconceptions that plague many evaluations.

Evaluation Theory, Models & Applications
By: Daniel Stufflebeam and Anthony Shinkfield

Evaluation Theory, Models, and Applications is designed for evaluators and students who need to develop a commanding knowledge of the evaluation field: its history, theory and standards, models and approaches, procedures, and inclusion of personnel as well as program evaluation. This important book shows how to choose from a growing array of program evaluation approaches.

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Grant Writing DeMYSTiFied
By: Mary Ann Payne

Create the perfect proposal to win funding for your ideas and plans

   

Grant Writing for Dummies, 4th Edition (Paperback), 3rd Edition (Kindle)
By: Beverly Browning

An all-in-one guide to locating and securing available grants

   

Grantwriting Beyond the Basics (Book 3): Successful Program Evaluation
By: Michael K. Wells, CFRE

Designed to inspire grantwriters to take their grant development strategies to the next level. 

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Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
By: Josephy Wholey, Harry Hatry and Kathryn Newcomer

"This third edition is even more of a must-have book than its earlier incarnations—for academics to give their students a comprehensive overview of the field, for practitioners to use as a reference to the best minds on each topic, and for evaluation funders and consumers to learn what is possible and what they should expect. I've been in evaluation for 35 years, and I used the first and second editions all the time."—Michael Hendricks, Ph.D., independent evaluation consultant


Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals
By: Darian Rodriguez Heyman

This handbook can educate and empower a whole generation of nonprofit leaders and professionals by bringing together top experts in the field to share their knowledge and wisdom gained through experience.