Getting Your Share of the Pie: The Complete Guide to Finding Grants
• Contains information based completely upon the author's professional knowledge, skills, and judgments derived from over 30 years of real-world experience• Serves as a staff training manual for local governments and nonprofits for identifying grant sources and obtaining these funds, as well as being appropriate as a college textbook• Emphasizes the importance of careful development of a sound project that will be fundable• Fills a strong need of small towns, counties, and nonprofits that are missing out on grant funding due to lack of expertise• Provides historical and current information regarding the general availability of government and private grant funds; two chapters are dedicated to disclosing sources for specific types of grants• One appendix contains a glossary covering the specific terminology used in the field• A complete index is included to enable the reader to find any topic quickly• Reveals an exclusive "inside" look at what agencies want and supplies a list of do's and don't to maximize success