Waddy Thompson

The Wise Guide to Winning Grants (eBook, ePUB)

How to Find Funders and Write Winning Proposals

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

LEARN GRANT WRITING FROM AN EXPERT

The Wise Guide to Winning Grants provides you with the information you need to research funders and write winning grant proposals to foundations, corporations, and government agencies, as well as major gifts from individuals. The entire grant writing process is described step-by-step with numerous real-life examples in an easy-to-read conversational style. You'll find advice on how to make your proposals stand out from the crowd and avoid common mistakes. This book will be helpful to grant writers in every nonprofit sector, as well as for entrepreneurs seeking start-up funding. You will learn how to:

• Find the best prospects to fund your cause
• Write a persuasive grant proposal that contains all the essential information
• Create a budget that will inspire confidence in funders
• Manage the research, grant writing, and reporting processes, and
• Get started as a freelance grant writer.

As the author of a previous successful book on grant writing, a fundraiser with more than 30 years experience, and an instructor for New York University's Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising, Thompson is well qualified to help you find the funding your charity needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Waddy Thompson
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780998512402
• Artikelnr.: 48054586

Autorenporträt

Waddy Thompson's 33-year career in arts administration has encompassed work for a wide variety of organizations serving music, dance, theatre, literature, and visual arts. He has held positions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, InterSchool Orchestras of New York, New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, OPERA American, Second Stage Theatre, American Music Center, and Symphony Space. His responsibilities at these organizations have included fundraising, donor-advised funds, marketing, communications, and various administrative areas. He has secured donations, grants, and bequests up to one million dollars from the full spectrum of funding sources. He is also the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing (Alpha Books) and numerous articles in The NonProfit Times and other periodicals. He teaches grant writing for New York University's Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising. He has also been a guest speaker and/or workshop presenter for several university programs and various arts councils in lower New York state.