Cover
Title Page
Welcome
1. What Can the Grant and Funding Coach Do For You?
2. How the Book Is Organized
Chapter 1: Your Idea
1. Basic Questions about Your Idea
2. Your Idea Happens with Money
3. Go Forward with No Fear
4. A Smart Investment for You and the Funder
Chapter 2: The Budget: Your Idea in Draft Numbers
1. A Project Map: The Draft Budget
2. Getting to the Costs
3. Just the Facts
Sample 1: Draft Budget
4. Who Will Contribute What?
Exercise 1: Seal Point Retreat
5. Things to Note As You Work on Your Budget
Chapter 3: The Words: Your Idea in a Short Summary
1. An Inspiring True Story
Sample 2: Short Summary
2. Using the Summary for Inquiry Letters, Cover Letters, and Social Media
3. Thinking Ahead to an Expanded Summary
4. Fiction or Nonfiction?
5. Looking into It Further
6. More Tips for Writing about Your Project
7. Trying Different Angles
8. Thinking Ahead about Graphics and Visuals
9. Understand the Time Factor on Grants
10. Leave the Technicalities to the Experts
11. Examples of What Works and What Doesn’t Work So Well
Chapter 4: Organize: Make Room for Your Idea
1. It’s OK to Use the F-Word: Fun
2. Pause to Organize Your Workspace
3. Get into That Organized Frame of Mind
4. Sometimes You Need Help
5. A Good Frame of Mind: Confidence
6. Stay on the Road
Chapter 5: Fitting Your Idea to Funds
1. Matching Funds
2. Some Background
3. Small Communities: Big Impact
4. Getting Started on Your Search for Funds
5. Public and Private Grants
6. First Step: Look to Your Sector (the Inner Circle)
7. Second Step: Search a Wider Circle
8. How to Organize Your Findings
Sample 3: Grant Schedule
9. Hiring Grant and Fundraising Professionals
10. Tips to Think about as You Sort through Possible Grants and Funders
Chapter 6: Crowdfunding Your Idea
1. Crowdfunding Background
2. How to Get Started as a Newbie Online Crowdfunder
3. Crowdfunding Online: Getting Down to Clean Lines
4. Clean-Lines Criteria for Choosing a Crowdfunding Platform
Checklist 1: Crowdfunding Platform Decision
5. Where Did the Money Really Come from and Why?
Chapter 7: Finding, Approaching, and Connecting with Funders
1. First Impressions Count
2. A Final Check-in for Community Consensus and Impact
3. Proceed with Confidence
4. Don’t Take It Personally
5. Be a Partner Rather Than a Petitioner
6. Be Yourself
7. Lobbying
8. Second Impressions Count
9. When to Walk away or Move Ahead
Chapter 8: The Final Application
1. The Final Budget
Sample 4: Final Budget
2. The Final Summary
Sample 5: Final Short and Expanded Summaries
3. The Story
Sample 6: The Story in Your Summary
4. Pour a Little Gravy on It and Give It Some Style
5. Editing and Reviewing Narrative
6. A Final Sense of Order, Design, and White Space, on Quality Paper
7. Attachments and Appendices
8. Letters of Support
9. Submitting Online
Chapter 9: Reviewing and Sending the Application
1. A Five-Point Checklist for Organizing a Successful Grant
Checklist 2: Organizing a Successful Grant
2. The Send-Off
Chapter 10: Reporting and Keeping the Momentum
1. The Final Decision
2. Reporting
Sample 7: Optimistic Naturalist Society’s Project Summary Turned into Thanks
3. Keeping the Momentum
Chapter 11: Two Mighty Words: Thank You
1. Making It Personal
2. Big Sentiment, Light Touch
3. How Can We Thank You Enough?
4. A Big Public Thank You: It’s in the Headlines
5. Commemorative Benches, Trees, Plaques, Etc.
6. Post Pictures
7. Lastly, a Thanks to You, Reader
Appendix I: Take the Stress Out
Appendix II: Further Reading and Resources
Books and Publications
About Nonprofits and Fundraising
Association and Council Portals
Crowdfunding Websites and Information
Subscription Portals for Funds and Nonprofit Information
No-Subscription Fund and Statistic Portals
How-tos and Samples of Documents and Portals for Grants
Thank You
About the Author
Notice to Readers
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