Get Grants Now: A Guide For Nonprofit Board Members, Volunteers and Staff
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Whether you are a volunteer who has never written a proposal or an experienced staff person who has written many, Get Grants Now offers a helpful perspective on seeking foundation and corporate grants to support the mission of your nonprofit. Based on more than 30 years as a volunteer, Board member, staff and consultant in the wonderful world of nonprofits, Jane B. Ford’s experience and conversational writing style combine to make this book both a useful tool and an enjoyable read. Her eleven-step process for securing grants begins with the understanding of the importance of mission to all funding, and concludes with a useful and amusing chapter that offers five keys to writing well. In between, you will find detailed guidance, useful resources, easy-to-use forms, valuable sample documents and pertinent stories from the author’s decades of grant seeking, designed to help you not only write proposals but enjoy the process as well. Get Grants Now belongs in the resource library of every nonprofit organization that uses – or wants to use – grant funding to support their work.
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Get Grants Now is a book so comprehensive, it covers all the specifics, reviews all the requirements, steps and nuances of seeking a grant, that it makes what is usually considered a daunting task achievable.
This book provides the tools, outlines, worksheets and tracking spreadsheets from the research stages, the initial call or letter of intent and the full proposal through to the follow-up.
Jane walks the reader through the perspective of a funder reviewing a proposal, which provides the insight to produce an effective product.
There is a great deal of attention paid in the book to the approach being respectful at all times. Respect builds the all-important relationship between grant seeker and funder, which is beneficial beyond a single request.
Having had the good fortune of working for Jane in a non-profit, I know her style always to be straight-forward, clear, positive, friendly and helpful. This is also the way she has written this book. Get Grants Now is a guide that allows the reader to become proficient in the art of writing grant proposals, because it provides the necessary tools to do the job.
Rating: 5 / 5
Rarely is an instruction manual excellent, fun and easy to read. Jane Ford manages exactly that in GET GRANTS NOW. She guides us through the entire process clearly and concisely: when you are finished reading you feel as if you could GET GRANTS NOW! Throughout, Jane shares her own, sometimes embarrassing, experiences, lending credibility to the guidance she gives. This makes for a highly personal and informative learning experience. She clearly explains how to research grant sources, how to write the grant, and even reminds about proper, effective writing! Of the many grant-writing books available GET GRANTS NOW is outstanding. When I finished reading, I felt comfortable that I had the tools to write and submit a successful grant proposal. I wish this book had been available when I was leading a nonprofit. Audra (Tulip) Gier, Founder, Midwest Science Foundation.
Rating: 5 / 5