Winning Grants: Step by Step, 2nd Edition

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Written for both novice and experienced grantwriters, the workbook is filled with practical advice and illustrative examples, including

Important information such as determining whether your program or idea is fundable
Clear examples that make it easier to create a well-written letter of intent
How to do the necessary research to find the right funder to approach
Targeting your proposal to meet the priorities of the funder
What happens to your proposal once it reaches the funder
How to adapt this program- and project-specific funding approach to assist in general funding

Once the workbook exercises are completed, your organization will have a fully developed grant proposal.

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great condition.......2007-09-22

Thank you, the book arrived before the required date, which is always a bonus. the book was also in great condition. Again, I thank you!

Very useful book.......2007-03-08

I have been reading lots of books on how to write grants, being new to the field. They are all good, this one is concise and well laid out, the information is clear and the samples are good. I would recommend it. We will see how successful I am...that will be the real test of how well the book worked.

Pragmatic worksheets.......2004-04-09

If you come in to our nonprofit management support organization and ask for a book on grant proposal writing, there are two we'll pull out right away: Grassroots Grants and Winning Grants Step by Step. We're often asked which to choose. Of all the books we see, these are the two we most often recommend, but they do have different approaches.

Winning Grants Step by Step takes a pragmatic tone. It accepts the rules of the game and offers to show you how to win within them. "Most funders prefer to give grants for new and expanding programs or in support of special projects and new ideas rather than for the general operating expenses of an organization or the ongoing costs of established programs," it explains. "Because funders have these preferences, this workbook uses the idea of creating a new program as the basis for developing a proposal." (The book does also give examples of core operating support proposals, and does start with a planning guide to help you see which programs fit your priorities).
In the introduction to Grassroots Grants, on the other hand, the publisher shares her qualms about publishing a book about grants at all, preferring that the reader focus first on developing more renewable and less restricted gifts from individual donors. "This book is about two things: money and power," says Grassroots Grants, and calmly analyzes the dynamics of both in the grant proposal process. This big-picture view is in the end more pragmatic - it encourages you to take control of the grantseeking process by searching out those funders and pitching those programs that really best fit with what you are trying to do.

Both books have excellent project planning guidelines. As Winning Grants Step by Step observes, "Generally, organizations will spend approximately 80 percent of their time planning a project and only 20 percent of their time writing and packaging a proposal," so this section is obviously very important. Both books ask questions such as "What is unique about your organization's project?" "Is anyone else working on a similar project?" "What members of your community support each project?"

Both also contain useful information about finding appropriate funders, which is key to the process - much more important than your writing skills is finding the right funder who cares about projects like yours. Although Winning Grants Step by Step puts this information at the end in an appendix, you should really read it first, particularly the excellent section on corporate giving programs. Grassroots Grants contains very helpful guidelines about what to consider when deciding whether a funder is really a good fit for your organization, and detailed information about ways to develop good relationships with potential funders.

The books have different approaches to how they help you with your own writing. Winning Grants Step by Step has a workbook format, with questionnaires you fill out as you go, so that by the time you have completed them you will have addressed most of the subjects covered in a typical proposal, and it will be easy to cut and paste the appropriate bits into the funder's preferred format. It comes with all the worksheets on a CD-ROM so you can fill them out electronically and reuse them. If you like project planning, but get nervous about the writing process, this format may help walk you through. Grassroots Grants has questionnaires throughout the text, and it has more examples of proposals, query letters, and other documents with notes on how they were developed. If you like to write by reading examples to inspire you to your own purposes, this book will suit you.

Ultimately, these books complement one another. Even if you prefer the workbook format of Winning Grants Step by Step, the "big picture" you get from reading Grassroots Grants will help you answer all those questions. Likewise, if you prefer the style of Grassroots Grants, you can still benefit from the excellent sections on overhead costs and planning for sustainability in Winning Grants Step by Step.

good, basic overview but don't use alone.......2003-09-25

I am a consultant, grantwriter, and trainer who specializes in technical assistance and training for HIV/AIDS services. I provide a copy of this workbook to participants in my grantwriting ("Bringing Home the Money!) workshops, because it's a good, basic overview of many of the different parts of the request for funding proposal.

What's most useful about Carlson's book is that it provides a summary for participants and another way of explaining some of the things I teach. There are also good worksheets included in Carlson's book, designed to help first-time grantwriters grapple with the different proposal elements. Carlson also includes a CD-ROM with different forms that can also be helpful.

However, there are important limits to Carlson's book, thus the caveat in my review title that you NOT use this book alone.

1. Carlson's book is very general. For certain funders or funding areas (such as in HIV/AIDS), grantwriters need to include and be very familiar with things like public health data and certain standardized evaluation methods. You will not get that kind of information or guidance in Carlson's book.

2. Some of the sections lack sufficient details that can help first-time grantwriters better understand the concepts. For example, the budget and budget justification section are weak. She does not provide any explanation for "priority/target populations," a concept important to HIV/AIDS and other public health programs.

3. Carlson starts off with a good premise: Helping grantwriters understand the writing of a good proposal by having funders--the people who would actually read and decide on your proposal--speak about what makes good and bad proposals. It's a great idea and one that is the backbone to my own workshop. However, it is a thread that Carlson quickly drops and doesn't bother to integrate into the entire workbook.

4. Finally, the different elements are presented in such a way that they remain disintegrated, separate, fragmented from each other. In reality, a good proposal (i.e., one that is most likely to be funded) includes all the required elements (abstract, description of need, work plan, goals and objectives, evaluation, etc.) that are written well, are strong in content, and all work together in an integrated way.

To Carlson's credit on my last point, I should note that very few writers of grantwriting books and guides have succeeded in showing the latter, although I think it's one of the best signs of a well-written, strong, viable program.

In summary, then, this is a good first place to start if you're new to grantwriting or need a refresher. But definitely use it in conjunction with a great workshop and/or other grantwriting resources that are available.

Good for foundation grants, not so good for gov't grants.......2003-05-15

The information contained in this book primarily applies to non-governmental entities soliciting grants from non-profit foundations. Organizations like the NSF, NIH, etc., have fairly strict guidelines and don't permit the "excesses" encouraged in this book.

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Based on numerous interviews with top CEOs and other professionals, Managing Interactively helps readers become well-versed communicators in today’s global, technologically focused organizations. Best-selling author Mary Boone examines the techniques and issues that surround clear and effective communication skills in the rapidly changing digital environment and presents provocative new ideas that will help readers address today’s communication challenges. Distilling the experience of top executives into easily applied techniques, each chapter features actual stories from expert communicators who have learned how to successfully adapt their communication strategies to today’s technologies. Managing Interactively is a must-have for anyone facing the communication challenges of today’s volatile business world.

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Packed with mind-expanding ideas.......2001-03-21

Speaking as a corporate communication professional, I can honestly say this is the most stimulating business book I've read. The premise is that organization leaders must go beyond simply seeking buy-in from their employees to a more iterative, interactive (and, ultimately, much more inspiring and effective) process of continually reinventing the organization. This argument is supported with great examples and enough detail to be actionable.

Highly recommended........2000-12-29

Mary Boone has authored a wonderful resource for implementing a knowledge-sharing culture in the Enterprise. Things to pay special attention to in the book include the ten key competencies for mastering new methods of communication and management, her insightful analysis of trends and obstactles affecting corporate communication, and the way she uses interviews with CEOs and executives to show you how others have implemented effective collaborative strategies.

On the lighter side of things, read her story about "George" in the "Get Over Yourself" chapter. She uses this story to point out how personality differences can be a show stopper to implementing innovation and promoting creativity. Furthermore, she explains how collaborative technologies can help bypass some of these differences.

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An Essential Read for Those Managing Within Today's Knowledge Culture

The Wondrous World of Knowledge

Managing the Knowledge Culture
Philip R. Harris
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An Essential Read for Those Managing Within Today's Knowledge Culture.......2006-04-07

In this era of the digital economy, successfully managing knowledge and its creators remains imperative.

Dr. Phil Harris focuses on this connection between knowledge management and culture in his new book, Managing the Knowledge Culture. The book is divided into two parts, including understanding the knowledge culture and its management, and developing collaborative skills and resources for the knowledge culture. Harris claims that knowledge workers require cultural skills. He writes that information, knowledge, collaboration, innovation, and globalization are the management benchmarks for the digital economy.

Harris further opines that organizational leaders operate on several different levels, including strategy, structure, culture, and people. Effective leaders use communication technology and research to facilitate a transition to the knowledge culture. The three "T's" for the new economy are talent, technology, and tolerance. Harris describes globalization as the integration of worldwide cultures, markets, organizations, and people. Information technology assists in spreading globalization. Planned organizational change is necessary to move a system into a knowledge culture.

With the rise of virtual teams, Harris touches upon the topic of international meetings. He suggests that such faceless collaborations are improved with well-developed meeting technologies such as using established guidelines, group planning dynamics, conducting and evaluating events, employing technology to involve individuals, and always remembering the human element of making people comfortable and relaxed. Collaborative relationships are significant to team management and development.

Managing the Knowledge Culture includes many effective visuals illustrating the salient points of managing in the knowledge culture. Some additional content worthy of note includes how to develop and empower knowledge workers as well as worker migration examples (i.e. India). In terms of building a globalized organization, Harris recommends that global human resources are necessary both inside and outside of organization. Human Resource (HR) systems should focus on enhancing human performance through learning by group organizations and providing members with more opportunities to contribute to achieve organizational goals.

The book focuses on the idea of learning organizations that highlights the synergies on how learning can also be effective when it concentrates on practicing successful cross-cultural skills. Peter Senge delved into the learning organization concept and defined it as entities where people continually expand their capacity to create desired results and are continually learning to see the whole together. Mechanisms that facilitate such organizational learning include providing employees with distance learning, mentoring, and coaching.

In dealing with learning organizations within a knowledge culture, Harris suggests that leaders need to possess vision, integrity, character, and ethical standards. A knowledge culture requires transformational leaders (i.e. leaders who inspire followers to transcend self-interests for sake of organization). Sir MacGregor Burns wrote that such transformational leadership focused on the ends, rather than the means, in the accomplishment of goals. Harris recommends that global transformational leaders need to develop strategic planning and management skills for a knowledge culture. Such global leaders need to improve their strategic management and planning skills to succeed in knowledge culture and create financial and intellectual value. Strategic management should also consider organization's stakeholders and realize influence of culture.

Knowledge culture leaders need to improve culture of innovation and provide an entrepreneurial environment. In a knowledge culture, leaders are challenged with transforming organization into a learning entity. Leaders in the knowledge culture must know how to manage change. Leaders must also see organizational cultural change. One way is to increase e-learning while seeking to promote innovation. There is a need for a macro worldview in order to face the challenge of leading a knowledge culture.

Managing the Knowledge Culture ends with a ten point listing of tips to meet the challenges of a knowledge culture, including promoting approaches that are goal-directed, culturally sensitive, and people-oriented. In addition, Harris finally suggests that high performance and cooperation at every level of the knowledge organization are crucial for success. This is an important book, which fully explains the crucial impact of the knowledge culture in today's global marketplace. It is a worthwhile read that will provide essential information on how to successful navigate the knowledge culture.

The Wondrous World of Knowledge.......2005-08-12

In its prologue reference to earlier 'industrial age' knowledge, the book can encourage the historical-inclined reader to reflect, for example, about the handling of knowledge in the Sumerian era of antiquity. In that early age, the very dawn of civilization, Sumerian interest was neverthless very manifest in discovery, systematic gathering, analysis and recording of knowledge - and also in the inventing of language of numerolgy and counting systems that supported it. Records were etched in stone, and if etched as a mirror-image, could then be transcribed to quantity printing on clay tablets - for granary inventory. They were therefore up to speed in acquiring and managing of knowledge, within the circumstances of the age. In a more recent age, post the Industrial Revolution, and at the end of the 19th century,occurred an accumulation of disparate areas of knowledge that conjoined to acquire critical mass and to explode, almost overnight and on a world scale, into specific practical projects and expertise - that kept patent offices of the day scrambling to keep pace and that sustained the generation of wealth and standard of living for the following century and beyond. In the present time, the informational and electronic age have now changed knowledge management dramatically and exponentially. Dr Harris's perspective explores the challenge of how to function effectively in the knowledge culture, now, of the 21st century - in a complex, rapidly changing and constantly interacting global world of politics, business and people.

The book title, "Managing ther Knowledge Culture" means what it says - that the premise and underpinning of managing knowledge lies in an interlocking triumvirate of Culture, Knowledge and Managing. Timely, then, that the book kicks off with key definitions of these elements. Culture is broadly defined as the unique life style of a particular group of people, at a point in time and place. Culture identity includes communication and language, dress and appearance, food and eating habits, beliefs and attitudes and work habits. Knowledge is defined as a state of 'knowing' (from information, ideas, or understanding gained from experience, observation, or study) and is the sum of what has been perceived, discovered or learned. Knowledge should be transferred to others (through communication networks, webs and other) and have the capacity for effective action. - also to be the prologue for generation of ecomomic power and wealth. Within the general area of Knowledge Management,is defined a new specialization that facilitates and supports processes for creating, sustaining, sharing, and renewing of organizational knowledge for wealth, improved profitability and retaining of position in a competitive marketplace.

Plenty of scope in these factors, for lively discussion and insight,furnished in the 8 main chapters of the book, 277 pages of text (no punches pulled!), 77 illustrative exhibits and comprehensive bibliography listings. - to enlarge on understanding of the roles of leaders administrators and entrepreneurs and with especial interest, the book states, to human resource professionals.

Dr Harris is a management and space psychologist and futurist, and has authored or editied 43 books over a 4-decade period: also has successfully served more than 200 organizations including corporations, government agencies and professional associations, and the military. Dr Harris has produced a page-turner book on the timely knowledge skills for a new era.

Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge (Asa Decennial Conference Series : the Uses of Knowledge : Global and Local Relations)

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Counterworks: Managing the Diversity of Knowledge (Asa Decennial Conference Series : the Uses of Knowledge : Global and Local Relations)
Richard Fardon
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Globalization is often described as the spread of western culture to other parts of the world. How accurate is the depiction of "cultural" flow? In Counterworks, ten anthropologists examine the ways in which global processes have affected particular localities where they have carried out research. They challenge the validity of anthropological concepts of culture in the light of the pervasive connections which exist between local and global factors everywhere.

Rather than assuming that the world is culturally diverse, this book proposes that culture is itself a representation of the similarities and differences recognized between forms of social life. The authors address issues of globalization in terms of diverse histories and traditions of knowledge, which may include the construction of difference as cultural.

In its attention to specific local situations, such as Bali, Cuba, Bolivia, Greece, Kenya and the Maoris in New Zealand, Counterworks argues that the apparent opposition between strong westernizing, global forces and weak concept of culture, which supposes cultures to be integrated and possessed of essential properties, need rethinking in a contemporary world where a marked sense of culture has become a wide-spread property of people's social knowledge.

This book will have wide appeal to anthropologists, to students of comparative studies in history, religion and language, and to anyone interested in the phenomenon of postmodernism.

Managing Culture and Knowledge: Guide to Good Practice

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Managing Culture and Knowledge: Guide to Good Practice
Neill Allan
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Managing Multinationals in a Knowledge Economy, Volume 15: Economics, Culture, and Human Resources (Advances in International Management)

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Managing Multinationals in a Knowledge Economy, Volume 15: Economics, Culture, and Human Resources (Advances in International Management)

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This volume includes contributing chapters from authors based in Asia, Europe, and North America to examine an emerging topic in the international management field - managing multinationals in a knowledge economy. They were selected to reflect the influences of three key factors - economics, culture, and human resources - on managerial decisions that affect multinationals and their effective operations. Leading the volume is an invited article by John H. Dunning, "An Evolving Paradigm of the Economic Determinants of International Business Activity." It presents a comprehensive review of his thirty-plus years of research on the eclectic paradigm, and a preview of his most recent work on the role of relational and institutional assets in foreign direct investment. This article, along with commentaries on Dunning's work written by Jose de la Torre, Timothy Devinney, Will Mitchell, and Stephen Tallman, can be found in the Research Forum section.

The present volume also includes five other articles selected through a double-blind review process. They complement the Research Forum papers, which focus on the economic determinants of international business activity, by examining critical cultural and human resource issues faced by multinationals. These include: the role of culture in entry mode decisions, the impact of national context on top management teams, cultural attributes of Russian management, the utilization of managerial expatriates, and the bridging of theory and practice in international human resource management research. A review of the volume's ten chapters suggests that, despite all the technological advances in cross-border communication and coordination, social capital and human resources are the most critical factors possessed by multinationals.

Islam, knowledge, and ethics: A pertinent culture for managing organisations

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Islam, knowledge, and ethics: A pertinent culture for managing organisations

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This unique book explains how changes in poultry and egg production and processing have paced the entire agricultural field. Completely revised to include current information on the North American and global poultry industry, this comprehensive overview brings together the biology and technology of poultry, and includes a complete accounting of all phases of the industry. Topics covered include: poultry biology, incubation, genetics and breeding, nutrition, feeds and additives, management, animal waste, food safety, health, housing and equipment, eggs, layers, and meat production; as well as comprehensive appendices that discussing the raising of poultry, game, and ornamental birds. For employees, managers, and owners of poultry producing businesses.

Commercial Chicken Production Manual - Fourth Edition

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A Must for the Commercial Chicken Producer
A Must for the Commercial Chicken Producer

Commercial Chicken Production Manual - Fourth Edition
Mack O. North , and Donald D. Bell
Manufacturer: Springer
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A Must for the Commercial Chicken Producer.......2000-12-18

North & Bell's classic reference is a guide to people in the commercial chicken industry. It covers every aspect of chicken production in its modern, factory-farm form, including often-neglected aspects such as hatchery management and breeder flock management.

This edition is useful to the small commercial flock owner, including people with free-range operations, because most small operation use modern commercial breeds of chickens, and this is the owner's manual.

I refer to this book constantly to help me with my family farm. We have about 500 free-range hens and raise about 700 pastured broilers each year.

The book is flawed through having an incomplete index and being somewhat out of date (1990). It is also quite expensive, but worth it if you're raising chickens for money.

A Must for the Commercial Chicken Producer.......2000-12-18

I refer to this book constantly to help me with my family farm. We have about 500 free-range hens and raise about 700 pastured broilers each year.

The book is flawed through having an incomplete index and being somewhat out of date (1990). It is also quite expensive, but worth it if you're raising chickens for money.

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