Communication Skills
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Communication Skills
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Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants
Demystifying Grantseeking is an inspirational and instructional guide to grantseeking. The authors--successful grantseekers in their own right--show you how to overcome the common fears fundraisers often experience and offer sound, practical advice to successful grantseeking. The book provides you with 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.
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Effective Public Manager: Achieving Success Focused on helping real-world managers and managers-to-be meet the demands of their jobs head-on rather than working around the constraints of government, this book offers a fresh approach to implementing effective management tools in a dynamic political, organizational, economic, and technological context. |
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Engaging Your Board: It's Raining Yen The Ultimate 21st Century Guide for Building the Capacity of Your Board. Practical applications featuring step-by-step instructions with tips, best practices and exercises. |
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Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. |
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Grant Proposal Makeover: Transform Your Request from No to Yes Grant Proposal Makeover shows how to transform lackluster proposals into excellent ones–that have the potential to be funded. |
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Grant Writing for Dummies, 4th Edition (Paperback), 3rd Edition (Kindle) An all-in-one guide to locating and securing available grants |
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GrantsWire Email Publication Subscription Funding intelligence to stay on top of the grant-winning game! GrantsWire is the most comprehensive source of new funding opportunities and it’s e-mailed right to your computer! |
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Grantwriting Beyond the Basics (Book 1): Proven Strategies Professionals Use to Make Their Proposals Work Grantwriting Beyond the Basics is the first book in a series being designed to inspire grantwriters to take their grant development strategies to the next level. |
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Making Critical Decisions: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations Making Critical Decisions offers nonprofit leaders a proven model for making hard choices that minimize risks while maintaining progress toward the organization’s goals as well as a practical framework for understanding and implementing the decision-making process. |
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Managing the Nonprofit Organization The nonprofit sector is growing rapidly, creating a major need for expert advice on how to manage these organizations effectively. Management legend Peter Drucker provides excellent examples and explanations of mission, leadership, resources, marketing, goals, and much more. Interviews with nine experts also address key issues in this booming sector. |
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Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy is your seminal guide to prepare for the coming intergenerational transfer of wealth that will affect your nonprofit and philanthropy in general. |
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Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy “An invaluable resource that distills the essence of strategic philanthropy for those seeking to achieve a greater social impact.”--Bill Gates, cochair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
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Nonprofit Essentials: Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers "Linda Lysakowski brings into focus the realities of enlisting volunteers to ensure success in a campaign. She clearly outlines logical steps that lead to inspiring passion in the volunteer, who is so essential to reaching a goal. I wish such a comprehensive treatise had been available to me forty years ago!" |
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Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals 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. |
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Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every Time |
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Questions & Answers for the Grant Professional: Achieving Excellence Questions & Answers for the Grant Professional: Achieving Excellence is designed to address all questions that a grant professional, seeking to improve his professional competency and employability, will have. The book explains in detail each topic area grant professionals must understand, demonstrate, master and employ to succeed in their jobs. |
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Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising - 2nd Edition This book walks readers through all the main phases of the proposal, highlighting the creative elements that link components to each other and unify the entire proposal. |
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Strategic Communications for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media The book offers a unique combination of step-by-step guidance on effective media relations and assistance in constructing and developing an overall communications strategy aimed at creating social or policy change. |
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The ABC's of Building Better Boards How to build, strengthen and maintain an effective Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization. |
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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules, real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests. |
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The Charismatic Organization - 8 Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees The authors offer a framework that allows organizations to go beyond quick fixes and fundraising strategies to a broader paradigm that encompasses community and organization building. |
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The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization A tool for self-assessment and transformation, answering these five questions will fundamentally change the way you work, helping you lead your organization to an exceptional level of performance. |
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The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic & Mystery of Practical English In a world where we comminucate more and more through emails and text messages, how you use language matters--even in 140 characters. The Glamour of Grammar prepares readers to captivate with every word. |
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The Nonprofit Board Answer Book, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives The Nonprofit Board Answer Book aims to have with you in the pages that follow. It follows a question-and-answer format, enabling you to quickly find an answer to a burning question you have right now. |
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The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role This new edition includes information on coping with new demands for accountability, as well as new cases and examples, an examination of current issues relevant to administrative ethics, and supplementary materials for professors. |
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Winning Strategies for Developing Proposals and Managing Grants, 3rd Edition This 3rd Edition has been completely updated and expanded to include information on how to write winning grant proposals and contains expert guidance on how to manage the grants you are awarded. From identifying sources of funding, to applying, and all the way to reporting and budgeting, this practical, how-to book is a comprehensive guide for grantseekers. |
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Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership The authors provide a range of ideas on how to approach generational shifts in leadership so that the contributions of long-time leaders are valued, new and younger leaders' talent is recognized, and groups are better prepared to work across generational divides. |
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Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact Engage your readers and boost your impact! Do you write--a little or a lot--for a socially responsible organization, business, or program? Wish you had an accessible writing coach to help you quickly craft potent pieces that move your readers to act? This feisty one-stop-shop of distilled wisdom will show you-step by step-how to turbocharge your marketing and fundraising documents. |
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Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer One of America's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration. |
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