Welcome to this book,
a new way for me to share a message delivered for many years when training and consulting among people in nonprofit outfits. If we have worked together before, you will recognize what follows and, I'm hoping, once again get your arms around the potential this holds for your success in developing resources to pursue your organization's mission. If not, this is your introduction to my long held passion about how to get smart about going after and getting grants. At its very core, the basis for my enthusiasm is the conviction that you can make much more out of the process of seeking grants than just throwing together a funding proposal.
We will look further into this proposition and all its implications as the chapters unfold. But I first want to share the values that have come to inform the way I frame my approach to developing funding proposals in particular. I am also persuaded that whatever credibility this old hand has enjoyed in his eclectic pursuits rests on these very principles.
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Here's what some of my colleagues
have said about the book:
"Reading this book took me back to the many times I was in your training sessions. Those were wonderful experiences. This book conveys your commitment to the nonprofit sector and your great humor throughout. It really is a book which anyone involved in the nonprofit sector should read."
Jan Stohr
retired director of the Nonprofit Resource Center in Sacramento
"Most striking about what Harvey Chess has written here is his utter and complete empathy not just for people helped and strengthened by the work of nonprofit organizations, but for the people in those organizations who bring the full weight of fierce caring, compassion, intelligence and -- I'll say it -- LOVE to making society a more civil place for all of us. If ever a human being embodied Robert Greenleaf's notion of 'servant leader,' Chess deserves the appellation."
Paul Vandeventer
President & CEO, Community Partners, Los Angeles
"Harvey Chess represents a distinctive voice apart from the burgeoning grantseeking industry. He's not selling magic formulas, nor does he see grantseeking as a game or a contest. Instead, what you get here is invaluable practical advice distilled from a distinguished career as a fundraiser, grantmaker and trusted advisor to nonprofits of all types and sizes. He delights in challenging conventional wisdom and appropriately focuses on fund development as integral to the larger more fundamental challenge of building and strengthening organizations. He's all about keeping it real, and this entertaining book is packed with great stories and straightforward do's and don'ts. It's the next best thing to a personal consultation from the Master himself."
Tom David
Senior Strategist, Community Clinics Initiative/Tides
"From the first day I began working with Harvey (nearly thirty years ago), I valued his emphasis on doing the right thing, in the right order. So it's no surprise that his book stresses getting the sequence of fund development right before the first proposal is written. Not-for-profit leaders know that money follows mission. This book provides a road map to help get from the mission to the money."
Georgianna Gleason
Executive Director
Episcopal Charities and Community Services, Chicago
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