Synopses & Reviews
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 applicants 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 organizations visionand missioninto reality.
Review
"Many concepts are very valuable and useful." (CharityChannel.com, September 2003)
Synopsis
Auf dem Gebiet der gemeinn tzigen Einrichtungen spielt die Budget- und Finanzplanung f r eine erfolgreiche Bewerbung um Zusch sse oder Subventionen eine wesentliche Rolle. Leider fehlt vielen Experten im gemeinn tzigen Bereich das n tige Know-How, um solide, vertrauenerweckende Budgets zu erstellen. Mit diesem Buch gleichen Sie dieses Wissensdefizit aus. rGantseeker's Budget Toolkit beschreibt den kompletten Budgetierungsprozess, gibt Insider-Tipps und nennt praktische Richtlinien und Faustregeln. Dar ber hinaus erl utern die Autoren jeden Schritt eines Budgetierungssystem und vermitteln eine ganze Reihe n tzlicher Budgetierungsmethoden und -verfahren. Eine umfassende und detaillierte Darstellung.
About the Author
JAMES AARON QUICK and CHERYL CARTER NEW are President and CEO, respectively, of Polaris Corporation, a grants consulting business that focuses on grants to organizations. They have developed and tested their training design through a series of seminars given throughout the world.
Table of Contents
What Is a Budget: And Where Does One Come From?
DEVELOPING YOUR PROJECT.
What Is a Project: And Where Does One Come From?
What Is a Problem: And How Does a Project Come from One?
Project Development.
DEVELOPING YOUR BUDGETS.
Fundamentals of Project Budgets: Concepts and Terms.
Direct Costs: Definitions and Explanations.
Personnel Costs: Compute and Capture.
Travel Costs: Compute and Capture.
Other Direct Costs and Prices.
REPORTING YOUR BUDGETS.
Putting It All Together: Developing a Finished Budget.
The Budget Narrative.
Index.
About the CD-ROM.