Grant Winner's Toolkit: Project Management and Evaluation(137 Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series)

Expert Tools and Techniques for Managing Funded Programs and Keeping the Grant Money Flowing in As anyone with a history in nonprofit management knows, a grant recipient’s job is far from over once the check is cut. That’s just when the real work begins. Especially now, when funders are taking a more active role in seeing that their money makes the desired impact, it is vitally important to the future of your mission that the programs under your stewardship succeed, beyond even your own expectations. Grant Winner’s Toolkit can help make that happen. Based on their own experiences and the experiences of hundreds of nonprofit managers nationwide, authors James Quick and Cheryl New provide expert advice and guidance on managing every aspect of your funded projects with the consummate professionalism demanded by your funders—from the drafting of strategies and action plans to the drawing up of budgets, from staff recruitment and team building, all the way through to the writing of the next grant proposal. They also arm you with an extensive arsenal of forms, checklists, time sheets, practice exercises, and other valuable tools that will help you to successfully: Organize and manage a grantseeking initiative Write comprehensive action plans Develop winning project strategies Develop realistic budgets Find, hire, and manage qualified team members Manage all key project resources Evaluate project efficacy Implement and maintain a policy of continual program improvement Replicate programs The enclosed disk contains customizable forms covering all aspects of project management that make it easy for you and your team to put the methods described in the book to work in your organization.For more information about the Polaris Corporation visit www.polarisgrantscentral.net www.wiley.com/nonprofit

Table of Contents:
ADVANCE WORK: DEVELOPING A MANAGEABLE PROJECT. Beginning at the Beginning: Organizing Your Grant-Seeking Effort. Getting the Direction Right: Managing Your Grant-Seeking Effort. The Key to Success: Your Project. Making Sense of It All: Project Organization and Outlining. Putting in the Details: Fully Developing Your Project. MANAGING THE FUNDED PROJECT. The Basics of Managing a Funded Project. Documentation: Keeping Records. Managing Project Personnel. Managing Events and Components. Managing Project Finances. PROJECT EVALUATION. Evaluation: The Basics. Evaluation: The Process. Evaluation: How to Create an Evaluation Plan. Evaluation: Performing the Data Collection and Analysis. Evaluation: How to Create an Evaluation Report. DISSEMINATION AND CONTINUATION. Dissemination. Managing Continuation. About the Disk. Index.

About the Author :
JAMES AARON QUICK is CEO of Polaris Corporation. CHERYL CARTER NEW is President of Polaris Corporation,