Step-by-step guidance, insider tips, and all the tools you need to create budgets and financial plans that win grants
Grants are a major source of funding in the nonprofit sector, and nonprofits invest considerable time, effort, and resources into obtaining them. A key aspect of any successful grant application initiative is budgeting and financial planning. A well-crafted budget, clearly delineating when, where, and how grant moneys will be applied, goes a long way toward selling a grantor on an applicant's vision. Unfortunately, many nonprofit professionals lack the know-how required to create budgets that instill grantors with confidence. This book fills that much-needed gap. Authors James Aaron Quick and Cheryl Carter New walk you through the entire budgeting process, providing invaluable insider tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb. More importantly, they provide you with indispensable guidance including a complete, step-by-step budgeting system, with each step fully documented and accompanied by an arsenal of powerful tools, plus much more to help you transform your organization's vision-and mission-into reality.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Its a good book!:
I do not understand why it is that when people find a book to be really good they give it 4 stars without explanation... Like in Waddy Thompson's review. I personally believe the authors did a great job and I would rather just say so without holding back... I would have liked to know why the 4 stars... what parts could have been better... Now that would have been helpful. Another good book to buy is How To Write A Grant Proposal by Cheryl New & James Quick... I have not been able to let go of this book.... more info
Great Step by Step to a Budget that Makes Sense:
I discovered this book when writing The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing and found it terrific for learning how to put together a program budget. Having done this for years and having taught others how to do it, I found their approach clear and to the point. The many examples are especially helpful.
Much more that you asked for....:
I have done many budgets and taught workshops and seminars on how to do budgets. The first response I had to this book is that I was glad I understood the process because if I didn't, I would not be able to understand this book. It is obfuscating, repetitive, and full of obscure, irrelevant quotes from such diverse sources as Humpty Dumpty, the Cheshire Cat and Shakespeare. As a matter of fact, I usually don't use obfuscating words or concepts myself, but this book has led me to do so. Having said that, I... more info
Book delivers more than budgeting advice:
In providing a much-needed context for the discussion of grant proposal budgets, the authors have actually created a step by step, straightforward plan to design a sound project. They begin with how a good project springs from a problem that your organization can solve. Then they walk you through defining the project's purpose, goals, and component steps.
I am torn about this book, because I believe grant seekers should NOT be the ones to design programs; program staff ought to do that. However, I realize... more info
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