Includes Local Sources, More Local Sources (Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte), 3 CD's Grant-tastic #1,2,3 and Grant-tastic! 121 Expert Tips on Writing and Winning Grants for your Nonprofit Booklet. A $372 value.

Includes 3 CD's Grant-tastic 1, 2, 3 and Grant-tastic ! 121 Expert Tips on Writing and Winning Grants for Your Nonprofit. Save $12.00.

Pinellas Local Sources is an easy to use grant reference covering Pinellas County Florida. The chart lists 183 funding sources located in or giving to Pinellas County organizations. Pinellas Local Sources includes names, addresses, websites (where available) and assets or the dollar amount of grants given. To help you identify your funders, the grants provided by each funder are coded into different categories from arts to religion. A Key helps you to find the categories that match your interests.

Available only to individual organizations for one organization's use.

(First edition, copyright 2005, 15 pages, soft cover)

Pre-publication offer, publication on or before Jan. 15, 2008

Local Sources is an easy-to-use, in-depth grant reference for Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties with over 100 funding resources. The text includes individual information about funders, including their deadlines, contact information, application requirements, board members plus to whom and how much was funded.

(sixth edition, copyright 2008)

Prepublication offer, publication on or before January 15, 2008

The companion edition to Local Sources, contains a list of over 225 funders who do not meet the size or other criteria in Local Sources, but are still interesting to savvy development offices.

(fourth edition, copyright 2008, soft cover)

New ideas are important, but if you don't use them wisely even the best fall short of their potential. In this CD, you will learn the Three-Step Get Wise Strategy. With the Strategy you will discover successful and wise ways to implement your best ideas. At the same time, the Strategy guarantees you will gather the knowledge you need to submit successful grant applications for those ideas.

Learn why nonprofit organizations are so vulnerable to myths. Find out five common money myths that lurk in and around nonprofit organizations that cloud decision-making, throw meetings off track and delay action. Is your board waiting for Bill Gates to send you a big check? Understand the realities and learn myth busting techniques to use with your leadership.

Do you struggle to find ways to create grant requests to sustain you long-term vs. one-time winners? Would you like to know what to write to end the separation between grants and other fundraising? This CD helps you understand how to create applications that create new synergies and useful revenue. Set in motion the links between grants and individual donations, position your organization as future oriented and include items in your requests you never considered to get additional mileage from your grants.

• Is Who You Are As Important As Your Request?
• Where Are The Funders? Out of 100,000 Sources The Best Places To Look
• Matchmaking Basics

• The Map Inside Ft. Knox: More Grant Basics
• So, How Will You Use My Money? Discovering Activities with Natural Appeal
• What Will You Do After the Grant? Why You Must Know Before You Write

You'll discover how to craft proposals that enthuse funders, how to draft budgets, knock out narrative and avoid seven common proposal mistakes.

• Like House Painting: How to Make the Writing Easy With Preparation
• Pen to Paper: Background, Need Statements, Project Descriptions and Budgets
• Reviewing Drafts, Proofing for Success

Your organization doesn't just need great grants — it needs Grant-tastic ones, that is, proposals that get funded. This booklet with its clear advice and easy to use format provides you with the hints, tips, and tricks you need to write and win grants.

With Grant-tastic you learn how to:

• Prepare your organization for grants
• Find the best sources
• Prioritize your opportunities
• Decide on request amounts
• Prepare applications and budgets
• Set up a systems to manage your grants and
• Save money and time, even if you are an experienced grant writer

(Publication, Feburary 2007)

"A great help to my board chair, who runs a lovely meeting, but goes on and on" was one comment we heard about this workshop-in-a-brochure publication. How to Lead Great Meetings gathers information from more than 20 publications and years of leading and attending meetings. You can read it in 30 minutes and use the information 30 times a year. Useful for all volunteers and staff who run meetings.

In this workshop-in-a-brochure, you will find a guide to assist you in enlisting the help you need, including volunteers and employees. What steps can you take to ensure your getting a "yes" when you ask for help? What can you do if no one wants the job? How do you ask so that you get a dependable answer? Essential reading and thinking for anyone looking for help.

Step-by-step procedures from organizing your time to producing an outstanding proposal. The five essential grant questions you must answer in every proposal, whether the funder asks them or not. Effective for individual learning and workshops using group discussion.