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.
New, Cheryl Carter : Polaris Corporation
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.
Review
"Many concepts are very valuable and useful."
--CharityChannel.com, September 2003
Submitted by Publisher, January, 2004
Summary
Step-by-step guidance, insider tips, and all the tools you need to create 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. A well-crafted budget, clearly delineating when, where, and how grant moneys will be applied,
goes a long way toward selling a grantor on an applicant�s vision. Unfortunately, many nonprofit professionals
lack the know-how required to create budgets that instill grantors with confidence. This book fills that much-needed
gap. Authors James Aaron Quick and Cheryl Carter New walk you through the entire budgeting process, providing invaluable
insider tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb. More importantly, they provide you with indispensable guidance including
a complete, step-by-step budgeting system, with each step fully documented and accompanied by an arsenal of powerful
tools, plus much more to help you transform your organization�s vision�and mission�into reality.
Table of Contents
What Is a Budget: And Where Does One Come From?
DEVELOPING YOUR PROJECT.
What Is a Project: And Where Does One Come From?
What Is a Problem: And How Does a Project Come from One?
Project Development.
DEVELOPING YOUR BUDGETS.
Fundamentals of Project Budgets: Concepts and Terms.
Direct Costs: Definitions and Explanations.
Personnel Costs: Compute and Capture.
Travel Costs: Compute and Capture.
Other Direct Costs and Prices.
REPORTING YOUR BUDGETS.
Putting It All Together: Developing a Finished Budget.
The Budget Narrative.
Index.
About the CD-ROM.
