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Grant Seeker's Budget Toolkit

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ISBN-10: 0471391409

ISBN-13: 9780471391401

Edition: 2001

Authors: James Aaron Quick, Cheryl Carter New

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Step-by-step guidance, insider tips, and all the tools needed to create the kind of budgets and financial plans that win grants Grants are a major source of funding in the nonprofit sector, and nonprofits invest considerable time, effort, and resources into obtaining them. A key aspect of any successful grant application initiative is budgeting and financial planning. Unfortunately, many nonprofit professionals lack the know-how required to create budgets that instill grantors with confidence. This book gives it to them, and much more. Authors James Aaron Quick and Cheryl Carter New walk readers through the entire budgeting process, providing invaluable insider tips, guidelines, and rules…    
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Book details

List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

JAMES AARON QUICK and CHERYL CARTER NEW are President and CEO, respectively, of Polaris Corporation, a grants consulting business that focuses on grants to organizations. They have developed and tested their training design through a series of seminars given throughout the world.

What Is a Budget: And Where Does One Come From?
Define Project Budget
Project Budget Creation and Accountants
Project Budget as Summary
Project Budget and Grant Request
Careless Use of Terms
Where Does a Budget Come From?
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Developing Your Project
What Is a Project: And Where Does One Come From?
General Concept
Organization
More Terminology
Where Does a Project Come From?
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
What Is a Problem: And How Does a Project Come from One?
Problems
Project Design
Project Profile
Hit List
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Project Development
Similarities among Projects
Create the Project Outline
Project Outline to Goals and Objectives
Objectives: General Discussion
Objectives: Plain Language Definition
Activity Analysis Worksheet
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Developing Your Budgets
Fundamentals of Project Budgets: Concepts and Terms
The Two Types of Budget Costs
A Variety of Direct Costs
An Old Standby: SF-424
Project Partners
Looking with "New Eyes"
Small Form Does Not Mean Small Money
In-Kind
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Direct Costs: Definitions and Explanations
Personnel
Fringe
Travel
Equipment
Capital
Supplies
Materials
Contractual Services
Endowment
Other or Miscellaneous
Materials and Supplies Revisited
Project Development and the Budget
Operating Funds
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Personnel Costs: Compute and Capture
Exempt or Nonexempt Employee?
Salaried Personnel Funded from Grant Request
Salaried Personnel Funded from Other Sources
Hourly Wage Personnel Funded from Grant Request
Hourly Wage Personnel Funded from Other Sources
Personnel Fringe (One Rate)
Personnel Fringe (More than One Rate)
Combined Personnel Expense Calculation Worksheet
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Travel Costs: Compute and Capture
Initial Travel Planning
Calculation Worksheet: Ground Travel by Private Vehicle
Calculation Worksheet: Ground Travel by Rental Vehicle
Calculation Worksheet: Ground Travel by Hired Vehicle (Shuttle, Taxi, Hired Car, Limousine, Bus, or Rapid Transit)
Calculation Worksheet: Air Travel
Calculation Worksheet: Meal Expense
Calculation Worksheet: Lodging
Compiling Expenses
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Other Direct Costs and Prices
The Calculation
Equipment
Materials and Supplies
Contractual Services
Other/Miscellaneous
Endowment
Capital
Finding Prices
Personnel
Fringe
Travel
Equipment
Capital
Supplies and Materials
Contractual Services
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Reporting Your Budgets
Putting It All Together: Developing a Finished Budget
Activity Analysis Worksheet
Develop All the Data
A Short but Advanced Discussion of Goals and Objectives
From Objective to Activities
Using the Calculation Worksheets
A Practical Matter
Master Budget Development Checklist
Preparing to Complete a Budget Form
Completing a Budget Form
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
The Budget Narrative
Personnel and Fringe
Travel
Equipment
Capital
Supplies
Contractual Services
Endowment
Wise Guy and Wise Lady
Conclusion
Index
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