Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next - Softcover

Teitel, Martin

 
9781889102252: Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1889102253 ISBN 13: 9781889102252
Verlag: Emerson & Church, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In kaum einem Flüstern, lehnt sich der Kopf der Foundation über und sagt furtively, Let me tell you how this really works. Dann gäbe er von A bis Z, was hinter geschlossenen Türen passiert, wenn ein Vorschlag für die Finanzierung betrachtet wird. Das wäre Martin Teitel, ein 30-jähriger Veteran der Foundationwelt und Kopf der Zedernbaum-Foundation in Boston. Sein Buch, Thank You for Submiting Your Vorschlag: A Foundation Director enthüllt What Happens Next und nahm eine Maßnahme des Mutes zum Schreiben. Sie ziehen die Vorhänge des inneren Heiligtums nicht zurück, ohne Ihren Kollegen den Zorn zu verursachen. Für jeden, der Antragsvorschläge einreicht, ist es eine faszinierende Lese. Noch wichtiger ist, es ist der ultimative Geheimführer zum Spielen des Antragsspiels und Gewinns. Das Buch von Teitel ist so intim, dass Sie das Gefühl haben, die Post eines anderen zu lesen. Ein perfekter Begleiter für How to Write Knockout Vorschläge, von Joseph Barbato.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Martin Teitel is Executive Director of the Cedar Tree Foundation, a private foundation headquartered in Boston. Previously he served as Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the CS Fund, a philanthropic foundation, and also Western Field Director for a public charity, The Youth Project.Teitel is author of two Book of the Month Club alternate selections, Genetically Engineered Foods: Changing the Nature of Nature (ISBN 0892818883) and Rain Forest in Your Kitchen: The Hidden Connection Between Extinction and Your Supermarket (ISBN 1559631538). He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Graduate School of the Union Institute, an MSW from San Diego State University, and a BA in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). He is a field education supervisor for the Harvard Divinity School.

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If you want the flavor of Martin Teitel s new book, imagine illusionist David Copperfield inviting you backstage to reveal how people are made to disappear or levitate. Only in Teitel s case, revelations center on the world of foundations and the $25 billion they disperse each year in the form of grants. Teitel, so obviously loathe to bureaucracy, is the first (and only) foundation director in America in the 100 year history of modern foundations to pull back the thick curtain of confidentiality to reveal how this select club of 70,000 decides which projects to fund.Generously sharing stories from his 28 years of experience as both grantmaker and grantseeker, Teitel invites the reader to experience the entire funding process from the inside out.From writing letters of inquiry, to constructing full proposals, to surviving site visits, Teitel offers the perspective of someone who has read thousands of proposals and dispensed millions of dollars.The book includes another first as well a 41-page eye-opening section called The Grantseeker s Reality Check. Here, Teitel distills his years of experience into a rich compendium of do s and don ts for proposal writers, board members, and executive directors.A sampling: Six things you can do to help your proposal make the first cut Eight red flags foundations are wary of. Five mistakes too many applicants make. Five questions you can expect to be asked about your proposal Seven reasonably easy things you can do to improve your proposal Whether he s commenting on the arrogance of some in the foundation world, or sharing his own grantseeking experiences (coffee stains nearly cost him a $350,000 grant) or describing how proposals are logged in ( A very bright and well qualified young man, in the case of our office, has this particular task in his job description because I promised to be honest with you he has the least seniority in the organization ), Teitel is warm, engaging, and authentic.He s funny, too. Here s what the author has to say about the folly of sending cookie cutter proposals: Maybe once in a while this scattershot technique works. I suppose if you went to a mall looking for a ham sandwich, started at one end and went to every single store with your request, you might eventually stumble into a place that could fix you up after having wasted the time of puzzled clerks in The Sharper Image and Talbots. Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal will have a measurable impact on the world of foundation fundraising. It should lead to better crafted proposals on the part of grantseekers. And for America s 70,000 foundations, it might well reduce the motherlode of inappropriate requests.Why has it taken someone in Teitel s position so long to come forward? Perhaps no one asked or maybe mystique has its rewards. Whatever the reason, those seeking a piece of the $25 billion foundation pie owe an enormous debt to Martin Teitel, the grantseeker s superhero.

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Verlag
Emerson & Church
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1889102253
ISBN 13 
9781889102252
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
141
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