The Principal's Guide to Winning Grants
Author: David G Bauer
Today's public and private schools can no longer rely on traditional sources of funding to fulfill their educational goals. Although grants have become increasingly popular alternatives for financial support, principals and their staff must face stiff competition for these limited sources. This practical, step-by-step guide is for principals who want to improve their chances of winning grants for their schools.
As administrative leaders, principals are in a pivotal position to motivate teachers, parents, and volunteers in the grantseeking process. This guide provides principals with techniques for mobilizing school staff, coordinating community support, developing winning proposals, constructing realistic plans and budgets, and successfully implementing those grants that have been awarded. David Bauer is not only an educator and former administrator but a noted expert in grantseeking and fund-raising. He draws from his extensive experience to share useful strategies as well as resources, including worksheets, forms, sample proposal formats, and checklists to measure progress. The grants marketplace can be a tremAndous resource for schools who know their way around. This guide helps empower schools and their leaders in resolving their funding problems.
Booknews
Bauer (grants expert, author and lecturer) provide a practical, step- by-step guide for principals who want to improve their chances of winning grants for their schools. He discusses techniques for mobilizing school staff, coordinating community support, developing winning proposals, constructing realistic plans and budgets, and successfully implementing grants awarded. He shares strategies as well as resources, including worksheets, forms, sample proposal formats, and checklists to measure progress. Lacks an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | ||
| The Author | ||
| 1 | The Principal's Role in Supporting Grantseeking | 1 |
| 2 | Setting Up a Proactive Grants System in Your School | 9 |
| 3 | Getting Ready: Assessing Needs, Establishing Goals, and Developing Solutions | 24 |
| 4 | The Grants Marketplace: What a Principal Needs to Know | 36 |
| 5 | Finding the Best Funders: Matching Projects to Grantors | 60 |
| 6 | Strategies for Contacting Prospective Grantors | 100 |
| 7 | Putting the Proposal Together: Developing a Strategy, Plan, and Budget | 122 |
| 8 | Preparing Federal Grant Proposals for Your School | 138 |
| 9 | Improving and Submitting Your School's Federal Grant Proposal | 154 |
| 10 | Developing Foundation and Corporate Grants Support for Your School | 173 |
| 11 | Improving and Submitting Your School's Foundation/Corporate Proposal | 189 |
| 12 | The Decision: Contacting Grantors and Dealing with Success/Rejection | 195 |
| 13 | The Principal's Role in Administering Grant Funds | 203 |
| Bibliography | 217 |
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The Consultant's Legal Guide: A Business of Consulting Resource
Author: Elaine Biech
Avoid costly litgation!
You'll want to keep this user-friendly overview of legal issues on your desk at all times! This is the only complete "how-to" guide and overview of legal issues you face as a consultant. You'll learn how to make sense of legal jargon and a variety of contracts as well as learn when to seek out the advice of legal counsel and when to walk away from losing relationships. This book isn't intended to replace competent legal advice-rather it is a time- and cost-effective means to understand legal issues before pursuing legal.
Includes a diskette with useful tools, sample forms, checklists, and links to technology-based resources.
"I beg you, do not start your own consulting business without first reading The Consultant's Legal Guide. And if you already have, read it now! I assure you that when you put into practice the sound advice of Elaine Biech and Linda Byars Swindling you will save yourself the heartache and headache of needless legal hassels...The Consultant's Legal Guide will help you every day of your business life."
--James M. Kouzes, chairman, Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems, co-author of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart
"A great flight plan to avoid turbulence...Whether you are a consultant or the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, this book should be on your desk for a reference in so many areas."
--Howard Putnam, Former CEO, Southwest Airlines and Braniff International, author of The Winds of Turbulence
"A well thought out, practical approach to dealing effectively with lawyers and other consultants. If followed, it should help all parties be better prepared and do abetter job."
--Rita Reuss, attorney, former vice president, Land O' Lakes
"The Consultant's Legal Guide is better than an MBA in business relationships. Clear, concise, thoughtful and thorough. . .after reading this book, consultants will sleep better at night!"
--Pamela J. Schmidt, vic
Library Journal
Consultants are increasingly the target of malpractice suits, note CEO Biech and attorney Swindling. Here they offer basic advice to help the consultant avoid legal problems. They define and explain the legal issues consultants confront as they start a business, negotiate contracts, deal with employees and independent contractors, and safeguard their intellectual property. The authors also give advice on how to choose the correct form of business entity, create an employee handbook, and choose insurance. They also cover the complexities of buying or selling a business and present an excellent chapter on trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets. Checklists scattered throughout help readers create a business plan or prepare to collect overdue fees from clients. A CD-ROM (not available at the time of review) supplements the text, providing more forms, checklists, and links to additional resources. Recommended for most public libraries.--Joan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, NY Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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