Grants are a key source of support for most nonprofit organizations, particularly new organizations or those starting new programs. Most nonprofits are very focused on getting them; nonprofits devote considerable time, effort, and resources to their efforts in pursuing private, public, and corporate foundations and winning grants. However, to truly advance their mission and ensure that grant makers continue to provide them with future grants, nonprofits must make sure that they manage the funds they receive correctly.
Book Details:
- Author: James Aaron Quick
- ISBN: 9780470616833
- Year Published: 2000
- Pages: 392
- BISAC: BUS074000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
About the Book and Topic:
Grants are a key source of support for most nonprofit organizations, particularly new organizations or those starting new programs. Most nonprofits are very focused on getting them; nonprofits devote considerable time, effort, and resources to their efforts in pursuing private, public, and corporate foundations and winning grants. However, to truly advance their mission and ensure that grant makers continue to provide them with future grants, nonprofits must make sure that they manage the funds they receive correctly.
In this age of nonprofit accountability, grant makers are becoming increasingly concerned that their money is making the impact they desire. The grant recipient must meet the grant makers expectations, or risk certain repercussions: losing the funding for their project, not meeting the needs of the community and those they serve, and having all the hard work they put into the grant writing process undone. Most grant recipients think their job is done once they are awarded the grant. However, the hard part is just beginning: they must develop and manage programs including the volunteers, staff, finances, and strategy associated with those programsthat closely follow the plan of action originally outlined in the grant proposal. Grant Winner’s Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation covers all the key topics, and help nonprofits make sure that they have responded to the priorities of the grant maker, those they serve, and their organization and its mission. Topics include: Grant Seeking and Grant Management Basics/Philosophy; Preventing Problems Later: Organizing and Managing the Grant Seeking Effort, The Basics of Managing a Grant Funded Program; The Grant Project Action Plan, and more. Throughout the book and on the disk, forms and exercises will provide hands-on tools that grantseekers can use to focus and implement the grant process, from project timesheets to financial planning exercises.
Covers methods for managing all the key resources of a funded project and provides methods to ensure that the impact of the program is enhanced. Provides real-world measures for evaluating the efficacy of a project so that the project will continue and improve, and will attract funding in future years. Shows grant winners how to respond to the higher levels of accountability, entrepreneurship, and efficacy that funders are demanding. Includes a disk with customizable forms that will make it easy for organizations to use the methods outlined in the book in their own organization. Provides guidance for managing a regenerating grants process from start to finish, when coupled with the author’s other book, the Grantseeker’s Toolkit.