How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation: With Forms (How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation)
by Mark Warda - Not available at Amazon.com, Buy it from Powell's Books
List Price: $16.95 Used; $24.95 New
Synopsis: 
Identifying the best type of organization for a business can make the difference between success and failure in a venture. These titles are designed for entrepreneurs, business executives and those involved in small office and home businesses of any kind. With more than 200,000 business start-ups in the United States in 2001, these books are perfect for anyone looking for a new opportunity! 

Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization : A Legal Guide
by Bruce R. Hopkins (Author)
List Price: $18.87
Book Information:
Legal advice and guidelines for those beginning a new nonprofit organization. Covers all of the rules and regulations that govern nonprofits, including taxes, fundraising law applications and implications, rules of reporting revenue, employee compensation, and lobbying. Features a glossary of important legal terms. Softcover. DLC: Nonprofit organizations--Law and legislation--United States. 

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How to Become a Grant Writing Consultant 
by Beverly A. Browning
List Price: $49.00
Paperback  60 Pages
Book Description
This is the FIRST "how-to" book for the field of grants consulting. If you are looking for a start-up guide to enter this emerging home-based business, then this book is the one for you! This book is for budding entrepreneurs who are amazed, dazed and even crazed trying to figure out how to break into the field and make a full-time living writing grants and doing other grants-related consulting. It's short, but detailed and hits the target as the leader of "how-to" books in the consulting field!
Review
I, too, was a little put off by the cost of such a small book, but having been a small business owner myself, I immediately recognized that Ms. Browning has generously shared marketing information that is crucial to the success of any business, especially one that is home-based. The "dollars" is a SMALL price to pay for the inside tips and tricks of someone who is obviously a success in her field. If you want to write grants and start a home-based business, I could not recommend another book as highly as this one.

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation with CDROM
by Anthony Mancuso
Our Price: $131.50
Publisher Comments:
The definitive guide for arts groups, educators, social service agencies, environmentalists and anyone who wants to start a nonprofit organization, this book shows step by step how to form and operate a tax-exempt corporation in all 50 states. It includes complete instructions for obtaining federal 501 (c)(3) tax exemption and for qualifying for public charity status with the IRS.

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation: With Forms (How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation)
by Mark Warda - Not available at Amazon.com, Buy it from Powell's Books
List Price: $16.95 Used; $24.95 New
Synopsis: 
Identifying the best type of organization for a business can make the difference between success and failure in a venture. These titles are designed for entrepreneurs, business executives and those involved in small office and home businesses of any kind. With more than 200,000 business start-ups in the United States in 2001, these books are perfect for anyone looking for a new opportunity! 

How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools 
by Stanley Levenson
Our Price: $24.00
Book Description
Easy to follow tips and suggestions to help teachers, principals, parents, school board members, district-level administrators, and others to successfully tap into the vast array of funding opportunities that are out there for the asking. Packed with helpful ideas and techniques to make schools and school districts more competitive in their search for corporate, foundation and government grants. You'll receive an overview of the types of grants that are currently available, as well as the names and web site addresses of major funding agencies interested in funding public school programs. A sampling of large and small successful grant applications is included providing models that are helpful for the beginning grant writer. A unique aspect of this book includes instruction on how to solicit grants and gifts from entrepreneurs, business leaders, and individuals within the school community. Annual campaigns, capital campaigns, and planned giving are discussed in! detail. Additionally, two chapters on grant writing are presented that provide a comprehensive approach to writing winning grant proposals.

How to Write Winning Proposals for Your Company or Client 
by Ron Tepper (Author)
List Price: $39.95
Review:
In this book, these three proposal writers and 16 others show you that writing a proposal is more than just answering a request. It is obtaining insight into what the prospective client/company/government agency really wants. You’ll learn: The advantage of the "laundry list" approach in private sector proposals How to get decision makers on your side before the decision.

The Jossey-Bass Guide to Strategic Communications for Nonprofits : A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the Media to Generate Publicity, Enhance Fundraising, Build Membership, Change Public Policy, Handle Crises, and More!
by Kathy Bonk (Author), Henry Griggs (Author), Emily Tynes (Author)
List Price: $32.00
Ingram
A nuts-and-bolts guide that shows how, with the right communications plan, nonprofits of any size and experience level can amplify their voice and advance their agenda. Complete with charts, checklists, and templates, this book shows readers how to select the right media, identify audiences, develop messages, produce printed materials, train spokespeople, use paid advertising and public service announcements, and handle negative press. 

I'll Grant You That : A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Funds, Designing Winning Projects, and Writing Powerful Proposals
by Jim Burke, Carol Ann Prater
List Price: $26.00
Paperback Bk & Cd-Rom edition (May 2000)
Book Description
Need money to expand your program, train your staff, or create your project? Be assured, the money is out there. All you need to know is where the grant makers are, what they're looking for, and how to produce it. I'll Grant You That provides all three, presenting a complete course on obtaining grants.
Part book, part CD-ROM, part website, I'll Grant You That is an all-in-one resource for finding funds, designing winning projects, and writing powerful proposals. The book itself offers everything you need to write a successful proposal. Not only does it walk you step by step through the process, it provides a series of workshops in those areas you might need a little help, including writing, organizing, presenting, and being creative. On the CD-ROM, you'll find annotated sample grants that explain what works--and what doesn't--in writing a winning grant, links to a host of Internet resources for grants and grant writing, and self-assessment tools to help you write the best grant possible. Plus, the accompanying website offers even more support, featuring an extensive, up-to-date directory of the many organizations that offer either grants or funds.
Burke and Prater's own efforts have led not only to millions of dollars, but, more important, to improved education for their students, better communities, and richer professional lives. With I'll Grant You That, the authors grant you the same.

Introduction : A Resource for Educators and Others Seeking Grants and Funding 
by Susan Lee Peterson (Author) - February 2001
List Price: $44.95

The Grant Seeker's Primer; A Guide to Applying For Federal, Foundation & Corporate Grants
by Edward A. Tureen, Heather, A. Weaver
List Price: $11.87
Paperback  112 Pages

The Grantwriter's Internet Companion : A Resource for Educators and Others Seeking Grants and Funding
by Susan Lee Peterson - Not available at Amazon.com
Our Price: $45.50
Hard Cover
This one-stop resource is a time-saving guide for busy instructors to use in finding grants for special classroom projects and school-wide programs.

Fundraising on the Internet: The ePhilanthropyFoundation.org's Guide to Success Online, 2nd Edition
by Mal Warwick (Editor), Theodore R. Hart (Editor), Nick Allen (Editor)
Our Price: $29.00
Paperback  256 Pages
Editorial Review
Jerold Panas, of Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners
"This is the greatest collection of fundraising electronics expertise that has ever been brought together. Fundraising on the Internet is full to the brim with ideas, verities, charts, and examples. Whether you're in direct mail, major gifts, planned giving, or the head of your shop, this book is essential if you want to keep ahead of the parade."
Review
A fantastic collection of resources! Warwick, Hart, and Allen brought together an amazing array of experts to assemble a practical, hands-on book full of interesting case examples. As an application service provider working almost exclusively with non-profits, we found the book particularly useful as a source book for guidelines and best practices. Our clients who have read the book were enthusiastic about everything from the specific strategies to the fundraising tips.

The Fund Raiser's Guide to the Internet
by Michael Johnston
List Price: $24.47
Paperback  256 Pages
Book Description
This practical, nontechnical guide to fundraising on the Internet, written by an Internet veteran who's designed scores of successful money-making sites, describes not only how to set up an attention getting Web site, but also how to make a Web site as well as any credit card transaction entirely secure. The Fund Raiser's Guide to the Internet takes the novice Web site creator from the basics of writing on the electronic tablet to tips on creating an effective reply device, complete with information on designing a premium gift array, made with exhilarating graphics. Examples of innovative sites for such world-class nonprofits as the Rainforest Action Network, the World Wildlife Fund USA, and Greenpeace Canada illustrate the sites' role in overall fundraising campaigns. Complete with a Web site scratchpad for designing a mock-up Web page, a checklist of "musts" for fundraising sites at the end of every chapter, and a disk with over 100 sites referenced in the book, The Fund Raiser's Guide offers site-tested advice on how to actually craft and perfect a Web site that turns a site visitor into a committed donor.
Review
There is no doubt that Johnston's book is the most thorough study to date about how nonprofits utilize the Internet. It's full of real examples, which is a rare thing in Internet literature. Usually, it's just about potential and hype. Now, we've got some real data.

How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters 
by Mal Warwick
List Price: $19.57
Paperback  224 Pages
Book Description
For busy fundraisers, writing letters of appeal can be confusing and laborious. Now, a guide from the nation's premier letter-writing tutor--direct mail expert Mal Warwick--shows fundraisers what makes the best letters work. Whether its general advice about the most effective mail strategies, or specific advice for those interested in the details of a direct mail campaign, Warwick keeps fundraisers on track when he reminds: "You're writing for results--not a Pulitzer Prize."
Review
This was an excellent book! I was able to put together not just a letter, but a fundraising package. The instructions are complete and the examples are wonderful reference tools. I am new to the Fundraising industry and this is a book that I am now purchasing for my library. It also covers thank you's. I would highly recommend this book to someone who has never wrote a fundraising letter before or even for the experienced letter writer!!

It's a Great Day to Fund-Raise! 
A Veteran Campaigner Reveals the Development Tips and Techniques That Will Work for You
by Tony Poderis
List Price: $35.00
Paperback  116 Pages
Editorial Review
Dr. Wayne P. Lawson, Executive Director Ohio Arts Council Columbus, Ohio
"Tony's book is an instant classic and an indispensable reference tool which belongs on the desk of every non-profit fund-raiser, no matter what their levels of experience or responsibility might be."
Review
Stephen C. Nill, American Philanthropy Review, USA
The problem with Tony Poderis is that he is terribly tardy in writing "It's a Great Day to Fund-Raise!" If I had read it 20 or so years ago, when he should have written it, I would have avoided some of the blunders he warns against. I wouldn't have taken nearly so long to become effective as a fund raiser. And I wouldn't have quite so many gray hairs today, each earned in the hard school of "experience." But (sigh) he wrote it only recently. Of course, there is a good reason for the interminable wait: Tony first had to rack up an incredible 20 years as director of development for The Cleveland Orchestra, where he was responsible for the largest annual institutional fund-raising campaign in Cleveland. Oh, and toss in another four or five years subsequent consulting experience, as well. I note, with some satisfaction, that the author has even more gray hairs than do I -- each one earned, no doubt, in the same "school."

The Nonprofit Guide to the Internet: How to Survive and Thrive 
by Michael W. Johnston, Robbin Lee Nonprofit Guide to the internet Zeff
Our Price: $20.97
Paperback  240 Pages
Book Description
This easy-to-use guide provides nonprofits with the information they need to not only survive on the Internet, but thrive. Completely updated, it includes the latest technical advances, market trends, and cutting edge tools that all nonprofits need if they want to maintain a cyber-advantage.
Review
The book's appeal is not just in the use of brief case studies, but also in its ample use of screen shots. Somehow just reading about various sites is not enough; we need to be shown them. And that's just what Johnston does, and amply, throughout. For a book on the Internet, this is as user-friendly as you can get. If the Internet is a hot topic with nonprofit organizations, then on-line fund raising is the hottest of the hot. Though it is probably impossible to write a definitive chapter on this topic, given the break-net pace with which "cyber-fund-raising" is galloping along, Johnston's treatment is among the better discussions I've seen in print.

Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations 2002 
Our Price: $36.50
Publisher: Oryx Press
Publisher Comments:
Nonprofits and other organizations seeking grants and funding opportunities to support general operating expenses will find over 1,000 current operating grants--organized by state--each with contact and requirement information. Three user-friendly indexes (subject, sponsors, and geographic restrictions) help you to quickly find the right grants for your needs. This directory lists approximately 1000 grants available to nonprofit organizations to help fund their operating expenses. Each entry includes the grant title, sponsor name, contact information, requirements and restrictions, sample awards, and the sponsor's area of interest. Entries are grouped by state, and indexed by subject, sponsor, and geographic restriction.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Preparing Your Capital Campaign: An Excellence in Fund Raising Workbook Series publication 
by Marilyn Bancel (Author), The Fund Raising School
List Price: $30.00
Book Description
"Marilyn Bancel has written a highly accessible, readable guide to a very complex process, which is no mean feat. Even if you have been through a capital campaign before and think you're ready-and especially if you're new to the capital campaign process-read it! Preparing Your Capital Campaign provides valuable insights and practical planning tools that will bolster your capacity to take on a campaign's challenge."
--Clara Miller, president, Nonprofit Finance Fund

Raise More Money : The Best of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal (Kim Klein's Chardon Press)
by Kim Klein (Editor), Stephanie Roth (Editor)
Our Price: $29.00
Book Description
Raise More Money: The Best of the Grassroots Fundraising Journal offers a wealth of tips, strategies and guidance on how small nonprofits can raise money from their communities, reduce their dependence on foundations or corporations, and develop long-term financial stability.
Review
Raise More Money: The Best Of The Grassroots Fundraising Journal is a compendium of the most compelling articles every to pub published in the pages of the "Grassroots Fundraising Journal" which is now celebrating its twentieth year of publication. This invaluable "how to" reference offers practical, up-to-date information on the latest fundraising strategies, often illustrated by case studies. Raise More Money covers fundraising principles and philosophy, planning, strategies, organizational and board development, and fundraising as a profession.

Raising Funds for Your Child's School : Over Sixty Great Ideas for Parents and Teachers
by Cynthia Francis Gensheimer
List Price: $10.47
Paperback
From Booklist
For all those PTAs, school boards, and home-school organizations stuck with reinventing fund-raising programs each year, here's a great resource. How do you organize a fun-fair, an academic marathon, or a gift-wrap sale? Gensheimer goes over the basics of planning, volunteer recruitment, activity organization, and soliciting contributions. Sample forms are supplied as well as names of companies that will supply materials or even handle the whole function. Now when the offspring of the long-tenured head of the fund-raising program graduates, the system need not fall into chaos.

Sensible and Useful: Practical Research and Grant Writing for School Libraries, Media, Computers, and Technology 
by Andrew Yeaman - February 2003
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Simplified Grantwriting 
by Mary Ann Burke (Author)
List Price: $24.95
Review:
"A long overdue step-by-step guide for schools and community organizations to navigate the complexities of program design and funding. In very succinct fashion, Dr. Burke has condensed her years of experience into an accessible format that can be used by anyone with even a limited understanding of the grantwriting process. Simplified Grantwriting is a must for school and district administrators, as well as service providers, as they respond to the changing educational landscape of the 21st century."

Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations: A Practical Guide and Workbook
by Michael Allison (Author), Jude Kaye (Author)
List Price: $27.97
Editorial Review:
The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
This comprehensive book/disk set shows you how to create and implement an effective strategic plan using a simple, seven-phase process that covers everything from defining your mission and setting your course to initiating, monitoring, and streamlining your plan. The workbook is designed for nonprofits of all shapes, sizes, and budgets, and can be easily adapted to fit any time frame. The package comes with field-tested worksheets, checklists, and tables in both print and disk formats, plus a sample case study that demonstrates strategic planning in action from start to finish. 

Storytelling for Grantseekers: The Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising
by Cheryl A. Clarke (Author)
List Price: $18.20
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com
Grantwriters, it turns out, have plenty in common with fiction and nonfiction storytellers. Like these other writers, says Cheryl A. Clarke in Storytelling for Grantseekers, grantseekers need to "transport readers to another location and teach them about people they may know nothing about." Grantwriting is often a tedious experience. Make it creative, says Clarke. To better capture the imagination (and wallet) of your audience, observe your agency in action as would a reporter, then craft what you see into a narrative as would a novelist. Your nonprofit agency is your hero; your story is about "people being helped, and their lives possibly being changed forever" because of the services provided by your agency. This is a passionate, clear, knowledgeable guidebook, sure to "put the joy and creativity back into the grantseeking process." With additional chapters on finding and cultivating appropriate grantmakers, forming a budget, and packaging your proposal. --Jane Steinberg.

Technology Funding for Schools - 2002  
by David G. Bauer
Our Price: $38.00
Paperback  256 Pages - check Powell's Books
From Book News, Inc.
This book explains the basics of grant seeking and other forms of fundraising by introducing how to solicit funds from corporations, foundations, and governments, as well as how to analyze school needs, and organize and write a successful proposal. Bauer, a grant and fundraising consultant for the educational community, includes many worksheet templates that can be tailored to meet a school's specific needs.
Review
Despite the best horticultural efforts, money does not grow on trees. Schools know this all too well. Budgets are tight and the demands are high. Technology investment is one of these demands, and it's a pesky one. Technology changes how we work, and keeping up with these cultural changes requires investments. So if not the trees, from where do the resources come? David Bauer's TECHNOLOGY FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS (Feb. 2000) begins to tackle the problem.

The 'How To' Grants Manual: Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants - 4th Edition
by David G. Bauer
Our Price: $36.95
Hardcover  266 Pages
Editorial Review
The Social Studies Educator
"This is a one-volume manual on grantsmanship that belongs in every school!"

Ten Steps to Fundraising Success: Choosing the Right Strategy for Your Organization (With CD-ROM)
by Mal Warwick (Author), Stephen Hitchcock (Author)
List Price: $30.00
Book Description:
In Ten Steps to Fundraising Success, two of the country's leading fundraising experts Mal Warwick and Stephen Hitchcock show you how to implement a fundraising strategy that goes beyond simply raising money to meet your organization's financial requirements. Step-by-step, Warwick and Hitchcock show you how to develop a mission-driven fundraising strategy that is based on Warwick's highly successful Five Strategies approach. The workbook and CD-ROM -- which can be used independently or in conjunction with The Five Strategies for Fundraising Success -- offer you the additional advantages of electing and crafting your own strategic plans right on the page, and analyzing the results.

The Wilder Nonprofit Field Guide to Fundraising on the Internet
by Gary B. Grant, Gary M. Grobman, Steve Roller, Amherst H. Wilder fou, Gary Grobman
List Price: $15.00
Paperback  52 Pages

Winning Grants Step by Step : Support Centers of America's Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and Writing Successful Proposals - Paperback - 110 pages 2nd Book and CD-ROM edition (June 2002)
by Mim Carlson 
Our Price: $29.00
Paperback  110 Pages
Book Description
Winning Grants Step by Step is the definitive guide to writing persuasive and successful proposals. In easy-to-understand terms, Mim Carlson leads you through creating a proposal--from start to finish--that fulfills the three most important criteria grantmakers demand from a competitive proposal: a clearly stated purpose describing what your organization is trying to achieve, compelling evidence that demonstrates the importance of this goal, and a well-reasoned plan that outlines how your organization will meet the goal in a cost-effective manner. And, once the workbook exercises are completed, your organization will have a fully developed grant proposal.
This revised and updated edition includes new examples and sample budgets that reflect the reality of today's nonprofit funding environment. It also offers guidance on using the Internet to research funders, current information on preparing and submitting proposals, and advice on building relationships with funders. The companion CD-ROM contains winning sample proposals from real organizations as well as blank worksheets that guide you though the proposal-writing process.

Write Grants, Get Money     Only 1 left in stock--order soon (more on the way).
by Cynthia Anderson - Released in 2002
List Price: 44.95
Editorial Reviews
From School Library Journal
This down-to-earth, practical handbook incorporates many of the collaborative activities recommended by the American Association of School Librarians national standards, Information Power. The step-by-step instructions will serve novices and experienced grant writers. The author's advice about reading grants to gain experience is excellent. Developing a plan, identifying the need, writing, rewriting, and rewriting again are all encouraged. The ideas, encouragement, and guidelines apply to any grant application process. Readers would do well to become acquainted with the 12 appendixes as soon as possible; the online journals and Web sites listed are invaluable resources. However, there is a lack of information about state agencies. Many times federal money flows through these agencies, which aren't listed. The other omission is a discussion of "outcomes." More and more frequently grants require that the applicant indicate what difference the monies will make to students. What changes will result if this program is funded? Will reading scores increase? Will parents use the library? Despite these drawbacks, this title is a useful addition.

Writing for a Good Cause: The Complete Guide to Crafting Proposals and Other Persuasive Pieces for Nonprofits
by Joseph Barbato (Author), Danielle Furlich (Author)
List Price: $10.50

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