Collaborative Grant-Seeking
eBook - ePub

Collaborative Grant-Seeking

A Practical Guide for Librarians

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Collaborative Grant-Seeking

A Practical Guide for Librarians

About this book

A collaborative approach to grant seeking can stimulate and reshape the culture of your library organization. The exciting and rewarding activities of developing a successful grants program can yield enormous dividends for the benefit of your staff, patrons, and community. Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A Practical Guide for Librarians will share new insights for those who want to access grant funding without reinventing the wheel. Based on years of practical grant writing and collaboration development experience, this resource provides a complete guide for setting up a library grant-seeking program, and for combining forces with community partners to increase grant funding to libraries. Venturing into the grants world can be scary and unpredictable. This book offers detailed strategies and practical steps to establish a supportive and collaborative environment that creates the capacity to consistently develop fundable proposals, and gives readers the confidence needed to make grant-seeking activities commonplace within libraries.

Collaborative Grant-Seeking will share featured topics unavailable in other grant writing publications, such as:
interpreting sponsor guidelinesidentifying appropriate funding programsdetermining the feasibility of project ideasasset-based (vs. need-based) proposal development strategiesactual examples of successful and unusual library projectsinitiating and sustaining collaborative relationships

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Yes, you can access Collaborative Grant-Seeking by Bess G. de Farber in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Nonprofit Organizations & Charities. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Chapter 1: The Pursuit of Grant Funds
  5. Chapter 2: Collaborative Concepts and Practical Approaches
  6. Chapter 3: Creating a Library Grant-Seeking Program
  7. Chapter 4: Searching for External Grant Opportunities
  8. Chapter 5: Ways to Grow a Culture of Grantsmanship
  9. Chapter 6: Strategies for Completing Application Components
  10. Chapter 7: Grant-Writing Tips and Potential Errors to Avoid
  11. About the Author