Grant Winner's Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation (Nonprofit Law, Finance & Management S.) - Softcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JAMES AARON QUICK is CEO of Polaris Corporation. CHERYL CARTER NEW is President of Polaris Corporation,

Von der hinteren Coverseite

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 programs

The 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.For more information about the Polaris Corporation visit www.polarisgrantscentral.net www.wiley.com/nonprofit