Finding Funding: Grantwriting From Start to Finish, Including Project Management and Internet Use Review

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(More customer reviews)The basics of grant writing from start to finish, including locating funding, internet choices, and project management, are packed into a reference which is filled with advice from grant-writing professionals. Plenty of examples of successful funding efforts are included throughout, from sample forms to analysis of the critical components of a proposal. Highly recommended.

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The fifth edition of this bestseller brings the reader up-to-date with newly researched Web sites and effective strategies for writing government, foundation, and private grants.

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Grant Winner's Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Too many grant seekers think that winning a grant is a job well done.The reality is that winning the grant is only a first step in a long process.This book has all the information anyone needs to effectively manage their grant programs. The text is well written and easy to read and follow.The examples and sample documents are worth their weight in gold!I would highly recommend this book to begining grant writers who have never had the opportuntiy to work on a grant project.This book will help you avoid the pitfalls many of us had to discover the hard way.

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Expert Tools and Techniques for Managing Funded Programs and Keeping the Grant Money Flowing in As anyone with a history in nonprofit management knows, a grant recipient's job is far from over once the check is cut. That's just when the real work begins. Especially now, when funders are taking a more active role in seeing that their money makes the desired impact, it is vitally important to the future of your mission that the programs under your stewardship succeed, beyond even your own expectations. Grant Winner's Toolkit can help make that happen. Based on their own experiences and the experiences of hundreds of nonprofit managers nationwide, authors James Quick and Cheryl New provide expert advice and guidance on managing every aspect of your funded projects with the consummate professionalism demanded by your funders-from the drafting of strategies and action plans to the drawing up of budgets, from staff recruitment and team building, all the way through to the writing of the next grant proposal. They also arm you with an extensive arsenal of forms, checklists, time sheets, practice exercises, and other valuable tools that will help you to successfully:
Organize and manage a grantseeking initiative
Write comprehensive action plans
Develop winning project strategies
Develop realistic budgets
Find, hire, and manage qualified team members
Manage all key project resources
Evaluate project efficacy
Implement and maintain a policy of continual program improvement
Replicate programsThe enclosed disk contains customizable forms covering all aspects of project management that make it easy for you and your team to put the methods described in the book to work in your organization.

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Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: The Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators, and Six Sigma Project Teams (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book written by Jan Means and my good friend, Tammy Adams, and it lives up to its title. This book provides real world, practical information to establish, facilitate and model effective techniques for project teams. No, it's not a book about project management. It's about supporting project implementation through the use of "facilitated work sessions" - otherwise known as teamwork!Chock full of helpful session agendas, templates, tools and techniques (which are on a CD-ROM for subsequent use), Jan and Tammy catalogued and indexed over thirty years of their experience in an easy to use format. This is the newer and better version of the biblical "Team Handbook" for project managers, sponsors, facilitators and team members.

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Step by step, Facilitating the Project Lifecycle guides the project manager/facilitator in making smart choices about when and how to pull key talent together to spell success for the project and ultimately the organization. The authors will help you understand the benefits of using facilitated group work sessions to get real work done during a project and get it done better and more efficiently than more traditional individual work approaches. In addition, the book includes:

Recommendations for capitalizing on group knowledge to accelerate the building of key project deliverables and ensure their quality as they are built
A work session structure for planning, delivering, and following up facilitated work sessions
Guides for building key project deliverables
Sample agendas
Proven techniques for managing the group dynamics

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Festival and Special Event Management (Wiley Australia Tourism) Review

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(More customer reviews)Although this book refers only to Australian festivals and events, it's loaded with management lessons, concepts and strategies that are universal. This is the best book I've been able to find on a subject that is scarcely written about (referring to large festivals). Thank you Johnny Allen, William O'Toole, Ian Mcdonnel and Robert Harris for sharing your knowledge.
Jason Bosch
Director of ArgusFest

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Festival and Special Event Management 4th edition continues the comprehensive overview of the theory and procedures associated with festivals and special events established in previous editions. The new edition of this market leading text introduces new developments, professional 'tools' and the globalisation and subsequent internationalism of event management.
The role of marketing and communication, environmental planning, the increasing role of governments through the creation of event strategies and the different perspectives of event management are all discussed. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to offer students a current, relevant textbook for their study and professional reference.
Festival and Special Event Management has been translated into Portugese, Chinese, and Korean, and has also been adapted for the UK market. The authors have taught event management throughout Australia and in locations as diverse as Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Edinburgh, Auckland and Cape Town.

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The Complete Guide to Special Event Management Review

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(More customer reviews)I was actually looking for a book about the organising of events with small groups of clients, up to 10 and at most 20 people. This was not what I was looking for....However it instilled a lot of new ideas in my crainium that I was able to carry over into my daily line of work when organising presentations to clients and events with clients.
This book was definately written for the novice special event manager in mind. It deals mainly with the staging of large events such as concerts, olympics, and charity events. They introduce the main stages of special events, problems that can occur, risk involved in taking on a special event, making sure you do your demographics homework to estimate the success of the event, chosing the venue, using television and radio for publicity to increase visitation, making a profit, security before, during after the event, the finale, closing down the event.
Even if you are organising events for a small number of participants, I highly recommend reading this book.

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Produced by the advisors to the Nobel Peace Prize and the 1984 Olympics, it offers practical event management and marketing advice plus anecdotes in an easy-to-read format. Precisely explains how to build image recognition through sponsoring diverse sizes and types of events ranging from entertainment to sports. Covers every stage of marketing, logistics, finance, concessions and public relations.

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The Project Meeting Facilitator: Facilitation Skills to Make the Most of Project Meetings Review

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(More customer reviews)At last - a facilitation skills book perfectly tuned to the unique needs of project teams! Most facilitation skills books and courses are geared to facilitation generalists or experts. This is the first book I have read that was written expressly for project managers. Full of practical and reusable tips and tools, the book addresses special challenges associated with every phase of a typical project: initiate, plan, execute, control and close.The writing is clear, straightforward, and engaging, and the layout makes it easy to find exactly what you need. I will be using many of the tips and techniques in an upcoming facilitation skills course I am running for project teams.

Nancy Settle-Murphy, president of Guided Insights (www.guidedinsights.com)

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Have you ever been involved in a project that didn't require a meeting? Neither have we. Well-run project meetings allow teams to get through the maze of distractions and obstacles to achieve results. Unfortunately, many project meetings aren't well-run-they are viewed, by team members, as unproductive, tedious, wastes of precious time. But you can change that. The Project Meeting Facilitator contains practical techniques and practices that will help you facilitate our meetings more effectively, transforming them into well-planned, well-managed journeys that engage the team while achieving the intended goals.

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