Grant Management Simplified: If you want improved skills and confidence, expanded grant opportunities, reduced risk of adverse outcomes, and insider strategies for maximizing federal funding. Decoding Grant Management walks you step-by-step through insider secrets to maximize results for your Federal grants. Lucy's advice and tips are organized in practical way that anyone can implement.
One of 2021's Most Highly Anticipated New Books—Newsweek One of The 20 Leadership Books to Read in 2020—Adam Grant One of The Best New Wellness Books Hitting Shelves in January 2021—Shape.com A Top Business Book for January 2021—Financial Times A Next Big Idea Club Nominee Social Chemistry will utterly transform the way you think about “networking.” Understanding the contours of your social network can dramatically enhance personal relationships, work life, and even your global impact. Are you an Expansionist, a Broker, or a Convener? The answer matters more than you think. . . . Yale professor Marissa King shows how anyone can build more meaningful and productive relationships based on insights from neuroscience, psychology, and network analytics. Conventional wisdom says it's the size of your network that matters, but social science research has proven there is more to it. King explains that the quality and structure of our relationships has the greatest impact on our personal and professional lives. As she shows, there are three basic types of networks, so readers can see the role they are already playing: Expansionist, Broker, or Convener. This network decoder enables readers to own their network style and modify it for better alignment with their life plans and values. High-quality connections in your social network strongly predict cognitive functioning, emotional resilience, and satisfaction at work. A well-structured network is likely to boost the quality of your ideas, as well as your pay. Beyond the office, social connections are the lifeblood of our health and happiness. The compiled results from dozens of previous studies found that our social relationships have an effect on our likelihood of dying prematurely—equivalent to obesity or smoking. Rich stories of Expansionists like Vernon Jordan, Brokers like Yo-Yo Ma, and Conveners like Anna Wintour, as well as personal experiences from King's own world of connections, inform this warm, engaging, revelatory investigation into some of the most consequential decisions we can make about the trajectory of our lives.
MORE...Grantees must understand that managing grants effectively is a critical step of the grantsmanship process. The only book of its kind, Effective Grants Management covers the grants management process that begins when an applicant has been awarded private or public funding. If it is not done properly, grantees may find that it is impossible to secure continuation or new funding from a grantor. In the worst case scenario, grantees may be asked to return grant funds due to mismanagement. This valuable guide also contains key terms, case studies, examples of grants that were not managed effectively, and useful sample forms and templates.
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An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies. #Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU, across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike. On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by Marx that call attention to his own “Prometheanism,” and key works from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century. At the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet urgently galvanized today by the poverty of “reasonable” contemporary political alternatives.
Donors, grantors, boards of directors, and regulators all expect a full accounting of how your organization uses money. Fund accounting is an accounting method that groups assets and liabilities according to the functional purpose for which they are to be used. It keeps restricted and unrestricted funds separate for nonprofit accountability and management. You will be able to manage, prepare and maintain fund balance reports manually or with a computerized accounting system. Prepare for A-133 audit requirements of some non-profit organizations depending on size of federal funding, and prepare and support grant fund allocations for funding sources. You will also learn to provide fund reports to management, auditors, funding sources and the board of directors, work with the executive director and project managers in understanding the financial aspects of the program and become aware of the need for budget revisions. Most all Funding sources (Grant providers) have very specific reporting requirements in accounting for funds you have received from their sources. These funds are generally obtained from a Federal, State, Local government and/or private sources designating your funding as the administrator of these grants. The skills and information you will get from this guide will help to ensure you are prepared for your A-133 Audit, provide documentation of receipts and expenditures for your funding sources, provide the organization with invaluable information on the performance of your programs, and help to determine when budget revisions are required. Accurate accounting for funds received can be a determining factor in ongoing funding for your programs; therefore, it is imperative that the methods used to account for grant funds received are in compliance with the guideline set by the governing entities and/or funding sources in the case of restricted funds received from private donors. As an accounting professional, executive director, board member or project manager you will greatly benefit from the information contained in this guide. Included are worksheets that you can use for your organization or use to prepare preliminary information to be transferred to an electronic system of accounting and document maintenance such as Excel or Word and others.
The proliferation of entrepreneurship, technological and business innovations, emerging social trends and lifestyles, employment patterns, and other developments in the global context involve creative destruction that transcends geographic and political boundaries and economic sectors and industries. This creates a need for an interdisciplinary exploration of disruptive technologies, their impacts, and their implications for various stakeholders widely ranging from government agencies to major corporations to consumer groups and individuals. Disruptive Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines innovation, imitation, and creative destruction as critical factors and agents of socio-economic growth and progress in the context of emerging challenges and opportunities for business development and strategic advantage. Highlighting a range of topics such as IT innovation, business strategy, and sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business executives, business professionals, academicians, and researchers interested in strategic decision making using innovations and competitiveness.
From the author of the bestseller The Golf Swing--and the golf coach to some of the world's best golfers, including Nick Faldo and Tom Watson--here are tips on how to correct 80 of the most common mistakes made by golfers. Arranged by topic and color-coded by handicap. 300 full-color illus.
