Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations: Shaping Public Policy at the State and Local Level
By: Marcia Avner and Bob Smucker

Your ""How-To"" Guide to State and Local Lobbying This guide is your complete road map to shaping public policy at the state and local level. It gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for developing an effective plan and putting it into action. With this handbook, you will: Discover how lobbying can help fulfill your mission; Learn how to initiate, support, or defeat bills; Develop effective lobbying skills; Gather and mobilize support for your positions; Learn how to use the media effectively; Influence govt administrators to back your policy positions; Comply with state and federal regulations; Set up systems in your nonprofit to support lobbying. Adaptable to Your Unique Needs This flexible book can be tailored to fit your situation.

Foundations of Social Policy:
By: Amanda S. Barusch

This new book for courses in social policy explicitly addresses the questions and dilemmas inherent in the pursuit of social justice. Organized in four parts, users develop a framework for analyzing policies and programs in terms of social justice and examine social justice from several philosophical perspectives. Poverty, health care, mental illness and addiction are discussed as well as theories of oppression and the challenges faced by populations that have faced oppression are addressed. The topics lead up to the policy practice of social work in the future.

How to Evaluate and Improve Your Grants Effort, 2nd Edition
By: David G. Bauer

David G. Bauer--acknowledged expert on grantsmanship--reveals that most institutions do not invest enough time, effort, or money into the grants process. Bauer offers grantseekers a dynamic, flexible, and adaptable system for the efficient procurement, and administration, of external funds. Already a popular guide for administrators, this new edition will ensure continued support as it demonstrates how to contact funding sources and submit proposals. In addition, Bauer offers ethical guidelines and practical management procedures, plus insight into budgets, records, and personnel management.

The 'How To' Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants
By: David G. Bauer

This highly acclaimed, best-selling book in the ACE Series has been created for novice grant seekers who need instruction on how to begin the grants process, as well as for seasoned grant seekers who want to learn new techniques to save time and increase their success rate. Now in its seventh edition, this book will help you work smarter, not harder, in the pursuit of grant support. Several colleges that use this system report success rates of 75 percent. This new edition of The "How To" Grants Manual seeks to improve success rates to an even higher percentage.

Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
By: Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman

The ABC's of Building Better Boards
By: Jean Block

How to build, strengthen and maintain an effective Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization.

The Nonprofit Board Answer Book, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide for Board Members and Chief Executives
By: Boardsource

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.

Strategic Communications for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media
By: Kathy Bonk, Emily Tynes, Henry Griggs and Phil Sparks

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.

Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits: Real-World Strategies that Work
By: Ilona Bray J.D.

Raise money for your nonprofit with unique advice and tactics. Getting tax-exempt status for your nonprofit organization is just the first step toward succeeding in your mission -- ultimately, your nonprofit's effectiveness depends entirely on your ability to raise money. Fortunately, Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits will show you how. Featuring advice and stories from over 40 experienced fundraisers, foundation staffers, journalists, and more, the 3rd edition of Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits offers strategies for raising donations from individuals, companies, and institutions, and covers the tools and staff you'll need to get the job done.

Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy
By: Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

“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

Faith-Based Management: Leading Organizations that are Based on More than Just Mission
By: Peter Brinckerhoff

The First and Only Complete Guide to Successfully Managing Faith-Based Organizations Faith-Based Management Written by a leading international expert on faith-based management, this book describes proven management strategies and techniques developed at some of the world's most successful places of worship and faith-based service organizations. It also supplies you with a complete action plan for quickly implementing them in your organization. Peter Brinckerhoff begins by exploring the unique challenges faced by managers of faith-based organizations. He then identifies the seven key characteristics of a successful faith-based organization and provides you with clear, easy-to-follow guidelines on how to:
* Assess and examine your organization's strengths and weaknesses
* Clearly define staff roles and responsibilities
* Delegate, evaluate, discipline, and motivate paid staff
* Find, train, motivate, and hold on to top-notch volunteers
* Generate budgets and financial reports and implement financial controls
* Improve your leadership skills
* Conduct sophisticated, cost-effective marketing compaigns that work
* Create strategic, business, and marketing 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

Grant Writing for Educators: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators and Staff
By: Beverly Browning

Grant Writing for Educators: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Staff provides educators with an abundant amount of information for dramatically improving their grant writing skills and for increasing their odds at receiving much-desired grant awards. The chapters are filled with expertise, encouragement, and solutions for educators who ask, How can we get this done?

How to Become a Grant Writing Consultant
By: Beverly Browning

This book is a start-up resource guide for grant writers who need successful guiding steps in starting their own grant writing consulting business.

Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals
By: Beverly Browning

The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every Time

Relationship Fundraising: A Donor Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money
By: Ken Burnett

Internationally acclaimed fundraising consultant Ken Burnett has completely revised and updated his classic book Relationship Fundraising to offer fundraising professionals an invaluable resource for learning the techniques of effective communication with donors in the twenty-first century. Filled with illustrative case histories, donor profiles, and more than two hundred action points, this groundbreaking book shows fundraisers how to

• Implement creative approaches to relationship-building fundraising
• Avoid common fundraising errors and pitfalls
• Apply the vital ingredients for fundraising success
• Build good relationships through marketing
• Achieve a greater understanding of their donors
• Communicate effectively with donors--using direct mail, the press, television, the telephone, face-to-face contact, and more.
• Prepare for the challenges of twenty-first century fundraising

Winning Grants Step by Step
By: Mim Carlson, Tori O'Neal-McElrath and The Alliance for Nonprofit Management

In the highly competitive arena of grantseeking, fundraisers need resources in order to win grants and fulfill their organization’s mission. This new, thoroughly updated edition of the bestseller offers a guide that any organization can use to secure funding from private foundations or the government. Filled with updated examples, this guide directs the novice grantseeker and offers a refresher course for experienced grantwriters. Following the process presented will improve anyone’s ability to transform an idea that needs support into a proposal that demands funding.  As part of the new Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Guidebook Series, Winning Grants has sold over 75,000 copies in its first two editions and has established itself as a leader in the grantseeking market.

Library Project Funding: A Guide to Planning and Writing Proposals
By: Julie Carpenter

Author Julie Carpenter spells out the steps involved in project development, planning, and preparation of bids for funding, and illustrates each with up-to-date, real-world examples. Library Project Funding guides you through preparing a complete business plan, and draws from a wide range of best practices in strategic planning, financial management and budget evaluation, project management, and business development. Templates and checklists provide additional reinforcement to help you effectively scope, develop, and write viable, realistic and winning proposals to acquire the funds you need.

Grant Proposal Makeover: Transform Your Request from No to Yes
By: Cheryl A. Clarke and Susan P. Fox

Grant Proposal Makeover shows how to transform lackluster proposals into excellent ones–that have the potential to be funded.

Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising - 2nd Edition
By: Cheryl A. Clarke

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.

Team-Based Fundraising Step-by-Step: A Practical Guide to Improving Results Through Teamwork
By: Mim Carlson and Cheryl Clarke

In Team-Based Fundraising Step by Step, Carlson draws on popular team-building theory and successful techniques--as well as on her years of fundraising experience--to offer a fresh framework for helping teams become more unified in their fund development activities.

Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
By: Roy Peter Clark

The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.

In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps of the writing process, and addressing the 21 most urgent problems that writers face. In his trademark engaging and entertaining style, Clark offers ten short solutions to each problem. Out of ideas? Read posters, billboards, and graffiti. Can't bear to edit yourself? Watch the deleted scenes feature of a DVD, and ask yourself why those scenes were left on the cutting-room floor. HELP! FOR WRITERS offers 210 strategies to guide writers to success.

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic & Mystery of Practical English
By: Roy Peter Clark

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.

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
By: Roy Peter Clark

One of America's most influential writing teachers offers a toolbox from which writers of all kinds can draw practical inspiration.

The Measure of STAR: Review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grants Program
By: Committee to Review EPA's Research Grants Program and National Research Council

The report favorably reviews the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's competitive research grants program, finding that it has yielded significant new findings and knowledge critical for EPA's decision-making process. Established in 1995, the grants program was designed to enable the nation's best scientists and engineers to explore new ways to safeguard the environment and protect public health. The program awards about $100 million a year in grants and fellowships to independent investigators, multidisciplinary teams, and graduate students at universities and nonprofit institutions.

The Responsible Administrator: An Approach to Ethics for the Administrative Role
By: Terry L. Cooper

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.

Grantsmanship for Criminal Justice and Criminology
By: Mark S. Davis

The history making US Crime Control Act of 1994 earmarked hundreds of millions of dollars in grant monies for a variety of justice related purposes turning crime control into a growing industry. This book directs the reader towards locating new sources of public and private funding as well as how to: formulate and state a problem that argues for funding; describe the methods for addressing the problem; clearly state measurable objectives; propose a comprehensive evaluation plan; succinctly describe the applicant's qualifications; detail and defend a budget; and solicit meaningful letters of support.

The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants
By: Lawrence Scheier and William Dewey

A veritable cookbook for individuals or corporations seeking funding from the federal government, The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants contains the latest in technical information on NIH grants, including the new electronic submission process. Some of the most successful grant writers in history have contributed to this volume, offering key strategies as well as tips and suggestions in areas that are normally hard to find in grant writing guides, such as budgeting, human subjects, and power analysis. A "who's who" among grant reviewers, this guidebook provides "inside" information as to why some grants are scored well while others flounder during review. A must-read for both entry level grant writers making headway in the complex NIH grant system for the first time as well as more seasoned investigators who can't seem to break the barrier to funded research grants, Drs. Scheier and Dewey's comprehensive volume provides simple and clear explanations into the reasons why some grants get funded, and a step-by-step guide to writing those grants.

The Nonprofit Development Companion: A Workbook for Fundraising Success (The AFP/Wiley Fund Development Series)
By: Brydon DeWitt

A comprehensive workbook covering all aspects of successful nonprofit development. One of the most significant factors in the success of any marketing and fundraising program is the ability and willingness of the organization to take the time to develop an integrated development plan with realistic budgets, timelines, and areas of responsibility. The Nonprofit Development Companion examines all aspects of successful development and includes useable templates and examples that can be adapted for application within any nonprofit organization.

Managing the Nonprofit Organization
By: Peter Drucker

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.

The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization
By: Peter F. Drucker and Leader to Leader Institute

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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Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Accounting for Dummies
By: Sharon Farris

Your hands-on guide to keeping great records and keeping your nonprofit running smoothly

Need to get your nonprofit books in order? This practical guide has everything you need to know to operate your nonprofit according to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) — from documenting transactions and budgeting to filing taxes, preparing financial statements, and much more. You'll see how to stay organized, keep records, and be prepared for an audit.

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Grants for Arts, Culture & the Humanities
By: Foundation Center

See who's giving and getting grants in your field. Strengthen your search for funds with the Foundation Center's digital edition of Grants for Arts, Culture & The Humanities.

This new Grant Guide reveals the scope of current foundation giving in the field. You'll find descriptions of 24,664 grants of $10,000 or more with a total value of $2,903,129,358 made by 1,135 foundations. Grants for Arts, Culture & The Humanities is essential for identifying prospective funders for general support or specific projects.

The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets
By: Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox

Writing for a Good Cause: The Complete Guide to Crafting Proposals and Other Persuasive Pieces for Nonprofits
By: Joseph Barbato and Danielle Furlich

Filled with tips and survival skills from writers and fund-raising officers at nonprofits of all sizes, Writing for a Good Cause is the first book to explain how to use words well to win your cause the money it needs.

Grants for Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual
By: Stephanie Gerding and Pamela MacKellar

Expert grant writers Gerding and MacKellar have created a "do-it-yourself" book and CD-ROM for fundraisers. They carefully outline the grant-writing process and provide a proven step-by-step strategy for getting your grant. More than 15 success stories from a variety of institutions and for various funding purposes are provided on the CD for you to model, adapt, or incorporate into your own winning proposals. Topics include: Preliminary planning; Defining the project; Forming the writing team; Choosing the best source to approach for funding (government, foundation, corporate, and local organizations); Writing and submitting the proposal with all the necessary contents (title sheet, cover letter, table of contents, overview, description, needs, methodology, timeline, budget, evaluation, etc.), and a detailed section explaining how you should follow up on your submission, partner with outside organizations, and implement and evaluate the project when your funding is approved.

Writing the NIH Grant Proposal: A Step-by-Step Guide
By: William Gerin, Christine Kapelewski, Jerome Itinger and Tanya Spruill

Hands-on advice that simplifies, demystifies, and takes the fear out of writing a NIH grant proposal

This fully updated book takes readers through the complex issues involved in applying for a prestigious NIH grant-from training grants to full-blown research awards. Actual forms from NIH grant applications-including the PHS 398 and the new SF 424 forms-are annotated to provide readers with step-by-step guidance that highlights unexpected nuances that can make all the difference between winning and losing a grant.

Guide to Government Grants Writing: Tools for Success
By: Harriet Grayson MUP MA

The government has literally billions of dollars to give away. While many people express interest in applying for government grants they falsely think the process is too complicated. The Guide to Government Grants Writing simplifies this process. In addition, information is provided on bidding for government contracts, which are available to organizations of all types as well as individuals.

The Guide to Government Grants Writing is a concise, simple but elegant tool designed to assist any individual or organization, including non-profit and for-profit businesses on researching and writing government grant applications. The Guide illustrates and provides specific step-by-step examples on how to complete the seemingly dense application as well as forms required of all government grant applications. The Guide is a basic reference tool for accessing grants information on all government levels—federal, state and local. Specific state-by-state details are provided on grants available in all 50 states.

Grant Management: Funding for Public and Nonprofit Programs
By: Jeremy L. Hall

Grant Management: Funding for Public and Nonprofit Programs presents grant writing in its broader organizational management framework. This text takes a comprehensive approach to external funding for public and nonprofit agencies.

Grantsmanship for Small Libraries and School Library Media Centers
By: Sylvia Hall-Ellis, Doris Meyer, Ann Jerabek and Frank Hoffmann

This comprehensive guide outlines each step of the process for obtaining grants, providing examples and definitions along the way. Emphasizing the importance of planning, including a variety of personnel, and establishing clear goals and objectives, the authors define 19 different categories of grants, including challenge grants and seed grants. The specifics of the grant-writing process are next outlined, with a focus on the written project. Finally, the steps to take after the grant is either approved or denied are examined and suggestions for improving an unsuccessful bid are offered. An up-to-date annotated bibliography, an exhaustive list of Internet resources, glossaries of both grant and technology-related terms, and a list of frequently asked questions such as "How many pages is a typical proposal?" are appended. This helpful and easy-to-use handbook should be a part of every professional collection.

Librarian's Handbook for Seeking, Writing and Managing Grants
By: By: Sylvia Hall-Ellis, Stacey Bowers, Christopher Hudson, Claire Williamson and Joanne Patrick

A comprehensive book that covers the full spectrum of the grant process, Librarian's Handbook for Seeking, Writing, and Managing Grants is designed to provide all the information necessary for librarians and educators to become effective members of grant-development and management teams. Written in an easy-to-understand, succinct format, it will be invaluable even for those with little or no background knowledge and regardless of the size or type of library or information center.

Money Well Spent: A Strategic Plan for Smart Philanthropy
By: Paul Brest and Hal Harvey

“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

Grant Writing in Higher Education: A Step-by-Step Guide
By: Kenneth Henson

This book helps grant writers in higher education to secure funding. It identifies positive and negative attitudes that affect producing highly desirable and fundable proposals. A Steps and Guidelines section helps make sure the reader finishes the book with a clear idea of how to prepare successful proposals. A separate segment on Preparing Budgets shows how to prepare budgets that will impress the reviewer and also how to test a budget to ensure that it is reasonable and sound. Information is included that is designed to help grant writers match their own reasons for writing grant proposals with the expectations of the potential funder. Several actual proposals written by the author that have been funded are provided as examples. The book identifies the essentials in a proposal package and explains how to develop each segment. Designed as a professional development resource for all faculty in higher education and individuals in all areas of K-12 education, particularly those in administrative capacities.

Successful Grant Writing for School Leaders: 10 Easy Steps
By: Kenneth Henson

This book breaks grant-writing down into 10 easy steps so school leaders learn how to sharpen their own skills and help others write highly-competitive grants.

Stripping away the mystery of grant-writing, Successful Grant Writing for School Leaders: 10 Easy Steps provides a straightforward template for securing more grants for your school and district. Drawing on author Kenneth Henson’s considerable success in this arena, the book outlines a series of steps that involve understanding the funder, identifying the funder’s needs, and crafting proposals to capitalize on each opportunity. Filled with real examples, the book explains the parts of a grant, provides good grant sources, and details ways to ensure a grant gets funded again and again.

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
By: David Renz and Robert Herman

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management brings together leading experts in the nonprofit and management fields to describe effective practice in all the important functions, processes, and strategies of nonprofit management. Based on the most current research, theory, and experience, this comprehensive edition offers useful advice for managing nonprofit organizations and addresses key aspects of practice such as board development, strategic planning, lobbying, marketing, fundraising, volunteer management, financial management, risk management, and compensation and benefits.

Grant Writing Made Easy, Grades K-12
By: Maureen Hinds

This book provides a simple, step-by-step guide to writing grants. Teachers will be given tips about writing and submitting a grant and idea topics appropriate for helping students in need of intervention. Sample grants, writing templates, and lists of available small and large grants will be included.

Grant Writing Handbook for Nurses
By: Barbara Holtzclaw, Carole Kenner and Marlene Walden

Grant Writing Tips for Nurses is a reader-friendly primer that acknowledges that grant writing is an essential skill for today's nurse. The text follows a logical path, moving from the reasons for seeking grant funding, the types of grants available, and the structure and content for a typical grant proposal, to the transit of grant proposals through internal institutional processes, deadlines and signatures, and progress through review by the funding agency. Final chapters take a glance foward to future funding, ethical dilemmas related to grants, and life after grants.

Planning Guide for the Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries
By: Bruce R. Hopkins

An indispensable reference tool, offering professionals hands-onlegal and tax planning tips.

The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations (9th Edition)
By: Bruce R. Hopkins

The Planning Guide is designed to be used in direct conjunction with The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Ninth Edition (April 2007), which summarizes the law of tax-exempt organizations as such (its purpose is not to provide planning guidance).

Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations
By: Carolyn Friedman and Karen Hopkins

Fundraising experts Karen Brooks Hopkins of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Carolyn Stolper Friedman of the Contemporary Museum of Art in Chicago offer important insights into today's best fundraising strategies for arts and cultural organizations of all sizes. New to this edition is an in-depth examination of corporate sponsorships, as well as a detailed chapter on endowment campaigns. All statistics, appendixes, and examples have been updated, and many helpful examples, including pledge forms, campaign statements, and sponsorship contracts, are also included.

Faith Legacies: Program and Development Guide for Faith-Based Nonprofits
By: Margaret Jamal

This is the season for the planters to mobilize their visions. It is a time when the world needs bold visionaries to settle down long enough to make good things happen. We are always most remembered for our works. It is time to start building the legacy that we want handed down for years to come. We need to plant legacies of love, hope, faith and good works. Faith Legacies offers information, insight and strategies to help readers acquire the mindset, skills, relationships and resources needed in order to sustain an effective social services outreach. Faith Legacies includes a biblically based guide for planting good works to produce good fruit. Your directions are simple regarding this book. 1) Learn what it teaches. 2) Apply what you learn. 3)Practice what you understand. 4) And share what you did.

Grant Writing 101: Everything You Need to Start Raising Funds Today
By: Victoria M. Johnson

A Crash Course in Writing Powerful Persuasive Grants! Grant Writing 101 offers quick and easy tactics for getting the funding you need - right now!

The Charismatic Organization - 8 Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees
By: Shiley Sagawa and Deborah Jospin

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.

90 Days to Success in Grant Writing, 1st Edition
By: Timothy Kachinske and Judith Kachinske

The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets
By: Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox

The ALA Book of Library Grant Money, 8th Edition
By: Ann Keppler

Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice
By: Alicia Epstein Korten and Kim Klein

A how-to guide for creating and funding social justice program grants. This groundbreaking book shows how to increase funding for social justice philanthropy. Social justice philanthropy provides direct services to alleviate suffering and works to transform the systems and institutions that cause that suffering. Written in an engaging, easy-to-read style, Change Philanthropy offers an insider's view what works and what doesn't work when developing grantmaking strategies in support of social change. It gives clear guidance showcases foundations of all types and sizes including Liberty Hill Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Needmor Fund, Jacobs Family Foundation, Discount Foundation, Global Fund for Women, Schott Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. The book also includes a wealth of illustrative examples and contains practical suggestions and tips that can be applied immediately to support any social justice agenda.

Fundraising for Social Change
By: Kim Klein

This bestselling book is one of the most widely used in the field by nonprofit organizations across the country. A soup to nuts description of how to build, maintain and expand an individual donor program, this book is often called "the Bible of grassroots fundraising."

Fundraising for the Long Haul
By: Kim Klein

In this companion to her classic, Fundraising for Social Change, Kim Klein distills her 25 years of experience and wisdom to provide the practical guidance for sustaining a long-term commitment to social change for organizations that are understaffed and under-resourced.

Part of the new Kim Klein's Chardon Press Series from Jossey-Bass which focuses on providing fundraising and organizational development tools for community-based and social change organizations.

Reliable Fundraising in Unreliable Times: What Good Causes Need to Know to Survive and Thrive
By: Kim Klein

"This book is an extraordinary combination of philosophy and how to, all aimed at helping nonprofits build a movement for social justice. Kim distills three decades of fundraising and organizing experience into a book that will be helpful for novice and veteran alike."
—Lance Evoy, director, Institute for Community Development, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership
By: Frances Kunreuther, Helen Kim and Robby Rodriguez

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.

Winning Library Grants: A Game Plan
By: Herbert Landau

Tightening budgets and ever-shrinking sources for funding have made winning grants more important than ever before. But where should a library grant novice begin? Right here, of course. Herbert B. Landau, the author of The Small Public Library Survival Guide and an experienced marketer and manager, offers a practical and comprehensive manual that guides you through grant fundamentals.

The Book on Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Well
By: Paula LaRocque

Teaches the elements of good writing through the use of essential guidelines, literary techniques, and proper writing mechanics.

The Law of Higher Education
By: William Kaplan and Barbara Lee

Based on the fourth edition of The Law of Higher Education—the indispensable guide to law that bears on the provision of higher education—this Student Edition provides an up-to-date reference and guide for coursework in higher education law. It also provides a guide for programs that help prepare higher education administrators for leadership roles.This important reference is organized into five main parts Perspectives and Foundations; The College and Its Governing Board and Staff; The College and Its Faculty; The College and Its Students; and The College and the Outside World.

How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools
By: Stanley Levenson

Easy to follow tips and suggestions to allow administrators to successfully tap into the vast array of funding sources currently available. Packed with helpful ideas and techniques to help make schools competitive in the search for corporate, government and foundation grants. You'll receive an overview of the types of grants that are currently available, as well as the names and website addresses of major government funding agencies. The reader will learn how to set up a Local Education Foundation, as well as successful strategies to solicit successfully from individuals in their community. Sample successful grant applications are included, as well as blank application forms for the U.S. Department of Education Grants. Helpful tips for implementing a fundraising plan using a fundraising consultant and/or staff members. K-12 teachers, principals, parents, district administrators, board members and others interested in learning how to obtain grants and gifts for their schools and school districts.

Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide to Fundraising and Management
By: Reynold Levy

"Ren Levy has written the definitive handbook on fundraising. It should be required reading for boards of directors and senior staff of nonprofit organizations. The lessons learned from Ren's broad experience are equally relevant to corporate executives as they endeavor to establish and strengthen customer relationships."
—Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

Successful Grant Writing, 3rd Edition: Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals
By: Laura Gitlin, PhD and Kevin Lyons PhD

This is the updated and revised third edition of the standard guide to grant writing for health and human service professionals in academic and practice settings. Since the publication of the 2nd edition in 2003, the grant world has witnessed dramatic changes, from constraints in budgets to significant transformations in the submission process. This new edition is still geared both to inexperienced grant writers and those who have had some success but would like to expand their knowledge of grantsmanship.

The book lays out an approach to thinking about grant writing and the necessary vocabulary and knowledge to effectively read a funding opportunity, determine its appropriateness to pursue vis a vis your ideas, and level of professional development, and the processes for applying for funding. This edition also includes expanded coverage of important areas including how to develop a grant budget, implement effective trans-disciplinary collaborations (an approach that is being advocated in many of the new NIH funding opportunities), interpret reviewers' comments, and manage a grant project upon its award.

Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy?
By: Linda Lysakowski
Published By: Charity Channel Press

Fundraising as a Career: What, Are you Crazy? will: --Introduce you to the nonprofit world --Walk you through your career options --Help you develop the qualities that will make you a great fundraiser --Provide hints on how to transition into development and how to get started on the right foot once you do --Show you how to advance within the fund development office or even into senior management of the organization --Provide nonprofit employers with an insider's view of the traits to look for when recruiting or promoting a development professional.

Nonprofit Essentials: Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers
By: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE

"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!"
--Milton Murray, Director Emeritus Philanthropic Service for Institutions Adventist World Headquarters

Nonprofit Essentials: The Development Plan
By: Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE

The Development Plan takes the reader through the development planning process and helps both novice development officers and seasoned professionals to create a plan that contributes to an organization's realization of its mission.

The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Hanbook: Getting the Money You Need From Government Agencies, Businesses, Foundations, and Individuals
By: Michael A. Sand and Linda Lysakowski

This book is for individuals who are dedicated to helping their communities but who need useful recommendations on how to raise money.

The Fundraising Feasibility Study: It's Not About the Money
By: Martin L. Novom & Linda Lysakowski

"The Fundraising Feasibility Study provides fundamental information on one of the most important, if little understood, elements of successful fundraising. Written by a cadre of the most experienced and knowledgeable professionals in the field, it offers insights and useful information that will be valuable to practitioners and scholars alike."
-James P. Gelatt, PHD

You and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community
By: Norman Olshansky and Linda Lysakowski

YOU AND YOUR NONPROFIT has been written for those who want to learn more about the nonprofit sector or improve their knowledge and skills related to nonprofit leadership, management and fundraising.

Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
By: Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman

Writing to Make a Difference: 25 Powerful Techniques to Boost Your Community Impact
By: Dalya Massachi

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.

The Zone of Insolvency: How Nonprofits Avoid Hidden Liabilities & Build Financial Strength
By: Ron Mattocks

Zone of Insolvency shines a bright and urgent light on the real issue of creating financial strength across the whole spectrum of nonprofit organizations. This insightful book uniquely shows you how to rise above "business as usual" with workable solutions to launch your organization out of the Zone of Insolvency and into financial viability.

Fundraising for Dummies
By: John Matz and Katherine Murray

Fundraising For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to take advantage of the latest strategies and resources available for raising money through everything from special events to online donations, in both good and bad economic times. The authors teach you how to market your organization using the most up-to-date tools and technologies available through the Internet. This expanded edition also offers information about philanthropy and tax law.

Grant Money Through Collaborative Partnerships
By: Nancy Kalikow Maxwell

Grant Writing: Strategies for Developing Winning Government Proposals
By: Patrick W. Miller

Grant Writing: Strategies for Developing Winning Government Proposals, Third Edition is designed to introduce funding seekers to the fundamental aspects of grant writing from finding potential funding opportunities to preparing successful proposals. In this comprehensive book, Patrick W. Miller, Ph.D. shares tips and tricks of grant writing and budget development while providing concise guidelines, ideas, and techniques for preparing winning grant applications. This book includes 100 tables, figures, charts, and other examples; 180 review questions and answers; 16 proposal writing and budget development exercises; 220 glossary terms and acronyms for reference; 75 up-to-date resources, including websites. The intent of this book is to help you win competitive grants. If you are seeking private and foundation funds, you will also find the techniques in this book useful.

Proposal Planning & Writing
By: Jeremy Miner and Lynne Miner

In a world of limited funding, grantseeking is extremely competitive. Now in its 4th edition, this standard guide to proposal planning and writing offers new information and examples to help grantseekers in the Internet age. New to this book are updated websites, including 25% more than in the last edition. In response to user feedback, this updated volume also provides more examples of successful proposals, including 9 letter proposals, complete with annotations. The book also offers expanded information on evaluation and outcome assessments, which are key to obtaining grants. Finally, the book gives an extended discussion of project sustainability after grant support runs out, a factor critical to successful applications.

Grant Seekers Guide, 6th Edition
By: James McGrath Morris

With its wealth of hard-to-find information on America's philanthropic sources, the Grant Seekers Guide has become the standard reference manual for non-profit organizations working for social justice. A popular choice for library reference sections. The Guide includes only foundations that have a proven commitment to social and economic justice.

The directory lists corporations and local foundations that provide grants to non-profit organizations working in the field of AIDS, women's issues, natural resource management, civil rights, gay and lesbian rights, peace and disarmament, and neighborhood revitalization, among other causes. Five indices cross-reference the information for grant seekers, and in-depth appendices explain all facets of the nonprofit sector. Detailed and specific descriptions of the grantor's philosophy and past funding practices help grant seekers target the best grantor to meet their needs.

Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce
By: National Center on Education and the Economy

Tough Choices or Tough Times, the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, shows how the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century.

You and Your Nonprofit: Practical Advice and Tips from the CharityChannel Professional Community
By: Norman Olshansky and Linda Lysakowski

YOU AND YOUR NONPROFIT has been written for those who want to learn more about the nonprofit sector or improve their knowledge and skills related to nonprofit leadership, management and fundraising.

Let's Write a Grant
By: Glenda O'Neal and Bryke O'Neal

Let's Write a Grant is a must-have book for learning how to write foundation grant proposals. It is the most practical how-to book offered in the field of grant writing. The book is a step-by-step guide that demonstrates how to write standard foundation grant requests. It is written in an easy-to-follow format leading the writer through the development of a grant request by posing questions to answer in each of the seven sections in a common grant application: Summary, Agency Description, Needs Section; Project Description; Evaluation, Financial Information, and Budget. Information is provided about each of these sections: its purpose and length; writing tips; common writing problems; why the foundation asks for the information; and examples. The book also addresses how to write a one-page letter proposal and demonstrates how to quickly and easily convert it into a letter of intent; it addresses how to get the most out of a single foundation proposal by tailoring it for others; it makes suggestions for strengthening your proposal writing; it offers advice for packaging your documents to send to foundations; and, it provides examples of common budget line items and presentations.

Local Problem Solving: Environmental Justice Small Grants Program
By: Marilyn Paley

The Environmental Justice Small Grants Program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fosters collaborative and co-operative efforts directed at addressing and/or resolving real life environmental justice issues. EPA has provided 1,010 small grants since July 1994 when the program began. This book describes 60 programs and projects funded under the Small Grants Program from 2000 to 2005 that have made a difference. These success stories demonstrate how diverse communities can come together in different ways to solve local problems. The groups represented in this report encompass the diversity of problems found in neighbourhoods and communities across the country. As with all recipients of the small grants, the projects described here place a premium on community and family health.

Grant Writing DeMYSTiFied
By: Mary Ann Payne

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

Grant Seeker's Budget Toolkit
By: James Aaron Quick and Cheryl Cartner New

Step-by-step guidance, insider tips, and all the tools you need to create budgets and financial plans that win grants

Mapping the New World of American Philanthropy: Causes and Consequences of the Transfer of Wealth
By: Susan U. Raymond Ph.D. and Mary Beth Martin Esq.

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.

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management
By: David Renz and Robert Herman

The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management brings together leading experts in the nonprofit and management fields to describe effective practice in all the important functions, processes, and strategies of nonprofit management. Based on the most current research, theory, and experience, this comprehensive edition offers useful advice for managing nonprofit organizations and addresses key aspects of practice such as board development, strategic planning, lobbying, marketing, fundraising, volunteer management, financial management, risk management, and compensation and benefits.

Successful Fund Raising in Higher Education: The Advancement of Learning
Editor: Frank H.T. Rhodes

Successful Fund Raising is a compilation of essays by university presidents and chief advancement officers who share their fundraising successes and demonstrate the importance of a team effort among the campus chief executive officer, the trustees, and the senior staff officer in charge of the advancement program. The authors discuss how the advancement function is integrated into an institution's ongoing planning process, as well as the respective roles and responsibilities of key players in this process. The contributing authors also share specific information about their advancement programs, including their goals, strategies, and tactics. The successful programs covered in this book will serve as valuable models for institutions that are developing and refining their own funding activities.

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.

Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Grantseeking
By: Andy Robinson

In the revised second edition of the bestselling guide to grantseeking, author and activist Andy Robinson walks you through the challenges of incorporating grants into a complete fundraising program, using grant proposals as organizing plans, designing fundable projects, building proposals piece by piece, and fostering effective communication with funders who support the activist community. This updated edition keeps pace with the changing times and contains all new budgets and model proposals, interviews with funders from the grassroots community and timely information about grantseeking on the Internet.

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.

Grant Writing Consulting Business
By: Tim Roncevich and Steven Primm

Upstart Business Consulting Group creates comprehensive business plan kits for a variety of businesses and industries. When you purchase one of our business plan kits, you will have access to the tools that will allow you to be an entrepreneur. We only create business plan kits for businesses that can capitalize on current trends and consumer demand. All businesses we cover require an initial start-up capital investment of $1,000 to $10,000. Although the required start-up capital is relatively small, you will have the potential for substantial cash flow and a high return on investment. The format of the business plan kits are modeled after business plans that have been used in successful start-up companies. These business plan kits are for those individuals who want a better work/life balance, want the flexibility, pride, and fulfillment that comes with being an entrepreneur, and want to earn extra income.

The Charismatic Organization - 8 Ways to Grow a Nonprofit that Builds Buzz, Delights Donors, and Energizes Employees
By: Shiley Sagawa and Deborah Jospin

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.

How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization: From Writing and Managing Grants to Fundraising, Board Development, and Strategic Planning
By: Michael A. Sand

Agency professionals at every level will find themselves referring to How to Manage an Effective Nonprofit Organization anytime they have a problem and need helpful, practical and to-the-point advice from an acknowledged leader in the field.

Fundraising Consultants: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
By: E.A. Scanlan

"In Fundraising Consultants: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations, Gene Scanlan provides a thoughtful and deliberative guide for how to select, develop, and maintain successful relationships with consultants that can help organizations achieve their goals. It is also an excellent resource for consultants, both new and experienced, on how to best serve our clients." -Barbara L. Ciconte, CFRE, Senior Vice President, Consulting Services

Fundraising Consultants: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
By: E.A. Scanlan

"In Fundraising Consultants: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations, Gene Scanlan provides a thoughtful and deliberative guide for how to select, develop, and maintain successful relationships with consultants that can help organizations achieve their goals. It is also an excellent resource for consultants, both new and experienced, on how to best serve our clients." -Barbara L. Ciconte, CFRE, Senior Vice President, Consulting Services

The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants
By: Lawrence Scheier and William Dewey

A veritable cookbook for individuals or corporations seeking funding from the federal government, The Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Science Grants contains the latest in technical information on NIH grants, including the new electronic submission process. Some of the most successful grant writers in history have contributed to this volume, offering key strategies as well as tips and suggestions in areas that are normally hard to find in grant writing guides, such as budgeting, human subjects, and power analysis. A "who's who" among grant reviewers, this guidebook provides "inside" information as to why some grants are scored well while others flounder during review. A must-read for both entry level grant writers making headway in the complex NIH grant system for the first time as well as more seasoned investigators who can't seem to break the barrier to funded research grants, Drs. Scheier and Dewey's comprehensive volume provides simple and clear explanations into the reasons why some grants get funded, and a step-by-step guide to writing those grants.

Proposals that Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals
By: Lawrence Locke, Waneen Spirduso and Stephen Silverman

Previous editions of this bestseller have helped well over 100,000 students and professionals write effective proposals for dissertations and grants. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, the Fifth Edition of Proposals That Work has been completely updated and revised to offer clear advice backed up with excellent examples.

Making Critical Decisions: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations
By: Roberta M. Snow and Paul H. Phillips

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.

Strategic Communications for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media
By: Kathy Bonk, Emily Tynes, Henry Griggs and Phil Sparks

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.

Proposals that Work: A Guide for Planning Dissertations and Grant Proposals
By: Lawrence Locke, Waneen Spirduso and Stephen Silverman

Previous editions of this bestseller have helped well over 100,000 students and professionals write effective proposals for dissertations and grants. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, the Fifth Edition of Proposals That Work has been completely updated and revised to offer clear advice backed up with excellent examples.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
By: Jane Straus and Mignon Fogarty

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.

Granted!: A Teacher's Guide to Writing and Winning Classroom Grants
By: Chris Taylor and Lynda Exley

GRANTED! provides proven methods for writing and winning grants, expertly guiding teachers, librarians, administrators and PTO leaders step-by-step through every aspect of the grant process. With GRANTED!, author Chris Taylor, a lawyer, educator and school advocate, shares her 20-plus years of experience with readers to simplify the sometimes intimidating application process for novice grant seekers, while at the same time revealing strategic, insider advice of benefit to even the most veteran grant writers.

Federal Education Grants Management: What Administrators Need to Know
By: Thompson Publishing

Federal Education Grants Management: What Administrators Need to Know is the only resource that focuses specifically on the unique compliance requirements associated with grants from the U.S. Department of Education.

Federal Grants Management Handbook Online Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

The Federal Grants Management Handbook is the most comprehensive and trusted source for administering federal program funds — from submitting grant proposals to setting up financial management systems for payment and reporting … initiating audits and grant closeout to searching for best practices and procedures.

Federal Grants Management Handbook Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

The Federal Grants Management Handbook is the most comprehensive and trusted source for administering federal program funds — from submitting grant proposals to setting up financial management systems for payment and reporting … initiating audits and grant closeout to searching for best practices and procedures.

GrantsWire Email Publication Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

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!

Guide to Federal Funding for Governments & Nonprofits - Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

The Guide to Federal Funding for Government and Nonprofits offers fast, easy access to current, precise funding information on more than 750 federal grant-making programs — all grouped by function, not by agency. The one source that uncovers millions of federal grant dollars.

Local/State Funding Report ONLINE Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

Local/State Funding Report is organized for busy grantseekers and grant managers like you. Every issue gives you critical perspectives, carefully checked facts and figures, and e-mail alerts on the latest grant headlines, including emergency and disaster aid... welfare reform... crime reduction... energy assistance... child and senior care... health care... housing and homeless assistance... community development and many more!

Questions & Answers for the Grant Professional: Achieving Excellence
By: Thompson Publishing
Dr. Karen Stinson and Dr. Phyl Renninger

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.

References in Grant Development and Management
By: Thompson Publishing
Dr. Karen Stinson and Dr. Phyl Renninger

References in Grant Development and Management is a desktop cheat-sheet for grant professionals — grantseekers, grants managers or others involved in obtaining, managing or closing out federal, state, foundation and corporate grants. This book gives readers a comprehensive listing of common grant-related terms along with examples, so it can serve as a readily available resource for a new staff person or as a quick reference to explain a concept or issue.

Single Audit Information Service - Hardcopy Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

The Single Audit Information Service is a comprehensive guide to all of the steps federal grantees and auditors must follow to ensure Single Audit Act compliance. From soliciting bids for audit services to preparing audit reports to resolving audit findings with federal officials, the Service provides detailed analyses of every aspect of single audit law and policy. It provides cost-effective and practical guidance on preparing for and performing single audits.

Single Audit Information Service - Online Subscription
By: Thompson Publishing

The Single Audit Information Service is a comprehensive guide to all of the steps federal grantees and auditors must follow to ensure Single Audit Act compliance. From soliciting bids for audit services to preparing audit reports to resolving audit findings with federal officials, the Service provides detailed analyses of every aspect of single audit law and policy. It provides cost-effective and practical guidance on preparing for and performing single audits.

Techniques for Monitoring Federal Subawards, 3rd Edition
By: Thompson Publishing

Hot off the presses – the BRAND NEW edition of Techniques for Monitoring Federal Subawards, Thompson’s best-selling book to guide you through the intricacies of subrecipient monitoring is now available.

Winning Strategies for Developing Proposals and Managing Grants, 3rd Edition
By: Thompson Publishing

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.

Writing Grant Proposals That Win (4th Edition)
By: Deborah Ward

Writing Grant Proposals That Win, Fourth Edition, Offers Step-By-Step Instructions And Clear Examples Of How To Write Winning Grant Proposals.

The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management
By: Stanley Weinstein

There are now more than 1 million nonprofit organizations in the United States, and the fundraising industry is one of the fastest-growing segments of the economy. The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management presents step-by-step guidance on planning, self-assessment, continual improvement, cost effective fundraising strategies and much more. An accompanying website contains checklists, grids, and sample forms. Plus, the Third Edition adds a chapter on internet fundraising as well as updated statistics. Fundraising professionals will benefit from the practical advice on managing the complexities of a development office.

Grantwriting Beyond the Basics (Book 1): Proven Strategies Professionals Use to Make Their Proposals Work
By: Michael K. Wells, CFRE

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.

Grantwriting Beyond the Basics (Book 2): Understanding Nonprofit Finances
By: Michael K. Wells, CFRE

Concisely written in highly accessible language and loaded with hands-on examples, tables, figures, and forms.

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. 

Handbook of Practical Program Evaluation
By: Joseph 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

Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Wolf and Barbara Carter

Since this classic work was originally published in 1984, there have been major shifts in the nonprofit world -- the growth of more profit-oriented ventures, the overhaul of accounting rules, new partnerships, and an emphasis on customer-oriented service and leadership. In easy-to-understand language, Thomas Wolf explains how to cope with these changes and deal with the traditional challenges of managing staff, trustees, and volunteers.

The Environmental Grants (Special Funding Guides)
By: Susan Forrester and Stephen Woollett

Shaking the Money Tree, 3rd Edition: The Art of Getting Grants and Donations for Film and Video
By: Morrie Warshawski

Completely demystifies the art of fundraising for independent film and video projects for students, emerging, and seasoned media makers.

Warshawski begins with a few professional development tips that will affect every aspect of your work and help you get the funding you need. By identifying core values, creating a personal mission statement, and setting goals, Morrie will help identify key areas of personal growth.

Next, he identifies the "money map," where finding money is easy (not just for film and video!). By creating a fundraising plan, identifying appropriate funding sources, and asking for monetary assistance in the most effective way, you'll be loaded in no time.

In Shaking the Money Tree, Warshawski also covers redesigning your production to make it more attractive to donors, researching for the right grants, how to write the perfect grant proposal, and getting money out of foundations and corporations. My favorite feature is the sidebars by experts in production and how to reach out to the community using social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook. - Amanda Lynn Porter

Nonprofit Management: Principles and Practice
By: Michael J. Worth

The only comprehensive textbook for the Nonprofit Management course, this book provides a broad overview of key topics, including the scope and structure of the nonprofit sector, leadership and managing, fundraising and financial management, lobbying and advocacy, managing internationally, and social entrepreneurship. The Second Edition examines the effects on the nonprofit sector of the economic recession and recent changes in law, and provides new data and cases.

Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant
By: Otto Yang

Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant, 2nd edition is a fully updated follow-up to the popular original. It is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There is little or no formal teaching about the process of writing grants for NIH, and many grant applications are rejected due to poor writing and weak formulation of ideas. Procuring grant funding is the central key to survival for any academic researcher in the biological sciences; thus, being able to write a proposal that effectively illustrates one's ideas is essential. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this volume offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. Included are a number of specimen proposals to help shed light on the important issues surrounding the writing of proposals. The Guide is a clear, straight-forward, and reader-friendly tool. Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Writing is based on Dr. Yang's extensive experience serving on NIH grant review panels; it covers the common mistakes and problems he routinely witnesses while reviewing grants.

Management Accounting in Health Care Organizations, 2nd Edition
By: David W. Young

This book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of accounting principles, concepts, and techniques that guide managerial decision-making in health care.

Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability
By: Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman