Written especially for professionals in nonprofit organizations, this is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to finding funds for programs and writing effective grant proposals. The author bases her work on 10 years of experience in successful funding and teaching in the nonprofit sector. She takes the reader through every phase of the funding and grant writing process. Notable for its comprehensive coverage and practical "hands-on" orientation to the subject, the book is also distinguished by its coverage of the specific areas of program planning and evaluation, topics usually ignored in other works on grant writing. Following an overview of the basic funding strategies, Gilpatrick moves to a sequential discussion of the various aspects of the grant writing process. Of particular help are detailed case examples showing the application of the manual's principles in real situations. The author follows five project ideas, taken from a broad range of nonprofit organizations, from the initial idea to the final proposal. She presents strategies on finding funding sources and writing proposals and includes a set of cumulative writing steps that build toward the final application for funding. In addition, the guide provides, for the first time, a coherent, underlying intellectual/theoretical structure for the funding and grant writing process, making this an ideal text for students in public administration programs as well as an indispensable resource for practicing professionals in nonprofit organizations.
Eleanor Gilpatrick's first career was as professor at the School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY) where she taught courses in research, management, writing, and critical thinking. She had won prizes for painting and draftsmanship in high school and at the Educational Alliance in New York City, but chose to study the social sciences in college and graduate school. She eventually became an expert in health care policy and human resources, authored four books (listed on Amazon.com), directed a masters program in health services administration, and pioneered courses in critical thinking and writing.
Her second career is as a contemporary realist painter. She paints landscapes, figural works, and still lifes that capture fragments of the world that arrest the viewer in terms of composition, color, and content. Working in acrylic on canvas, a modern colorist, she expresses an affirmation of life with a hint of the solitary.
Gilpatrick's work includes strong, romantic landscapes set in New York and places she has traveled to in the US and Europe. She is influenced by the 19th Century sensibility of Turner and The Hudson River School, but expresses a 21st Century strength with vigorous brushwork, strong composition, and powerful or surprising content. Her work with the figure looks at people in motion, absorbed in the activity of their daily lives, wherever that may be.
In 2007 she embarked on a new undertaking, to express her thoughts about the state of the world. Her "Issues of Our Day" series numbers over 12 paintings and more such works are being produced. Her paintings "The Women" and "Casualty" were juried into The Pen and Brush Gallery shows in Manhattan in 2008 and 2009. A contrast to the anti-war paintings are Gilpatrick's ongoing nebula paintings. These two series have been inspired by international press photographers and NASA, whom she credits. The peace paintings are reflected in her fifth book, also available on Amazon.com (Book of Important Dates, Illustrated With Eleanor Gilpatrick's Anti-War Paintings, CreateSpace, 2009).
Gilpatrick curated an annual, year-long student art show at Hunter College from 2000 to 2008. She has since taken the competition on line, at two websites called Juried Student Art at 1000Markets. Her own inventory of art can be seen at www.Gilpatr.1000Markets.com
