How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools [Paperback]

Stanley Levenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 14, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0205308872 | ISBN-13: 978-0205308873 | Edition: 1st

B> Easy to follow tips and suggestions to allow administrators to successfully tap into the vast array of funding sources currently available. Packed with helpful ideas and techniques to help make schools competitive in the search for corporate, government and foundation grants. You'll receive an overview of the types of grants that are currently available, as well as the names and website addresses of major government funding agencies. The reader will learn how to set up a Local Education Foundation, as well as successful strategies to solicit successfully from individuals in their community. Sample successful grant applications are included, as well as blank application forms for the U.S. Department of Education Grants. Helpful tips for implementing a fundraising plan using a fundraising consultant and/or staff members. K-12 teachers, principals, parents, district administrators, board members and others interested in learning how to obtain grants and gifts for their schools and school districts.

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From the Back Cover

Easy to follow tips and suggestions to allow administrators to successfully tap into the vast array of funding sources currently available. Packed with helpful ideas and techniques to help make schools competitive in the search for corporate, government and foundation grants. You'll receive an overview of the types of grants that are currently available, as well as the names and website addresses of major government funding agencies. The reader will learn how to set up a Local Education Foundation, as well as successful strategies to solicit successfully from individuals in their community. Sample successful grant applications are included, as well as blank application forms for the U.S. Department of Education Grants. Helpful tips for implementing a fundraising plan using a fundraising consultant and/or staff members. K-12 teachers, principles, parents, district administrators, board members and others interested in learning how to obtain grants and gifts for their schools and school districts.

About the Author

Dr. Stan Levenson is a nationally recognized Fundraising Consultant to the public schools with more than 30 years of experience in raising corporate, foundation and government grants. He is a former teacher, principal, district-level administrator and university professor. He has served as a consultant to more than fifty school districts throughout the United States and abroad. He has written extensively for publication and has trained hundreds of teachers and administrators on how to obtain grants and gifts for the public schools. In addition to his work as a Fundraising Consultant and writer, Dr. Levenson also teaches fundraising classes for the University of California at San Diego and elsewhere.

Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 1st edition (November 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205308872
• ISBN-13: 978-0205308873
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,935,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools, March 15, 2003

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David Strom (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools (Paperback)

Dr.Stanley Levenson has written a much needed book for public educators. Today, in a time of monetary crisis for many school districts in the nation, any book that can shed light on where to get money for innovative and creative programing is welcome. Dr. Levenson's does that and more.
Classroom teachers can use his work as a guide to understanding what it takes to write a grant proposal. Nowhere in a teacher's college education is anything like this taught, or for that matter, mentioned. Yet, teachers are constantly trying to be innovative and creative in their teaching. Sometimes, without funds it is hard to try the new and "impractical" in the classroom. With the guidance of Dr. Levenson's book, teachers are walked through the grant writing proposal step by step. But the book does not stop there!
He lists places where money can be found. The federal, state and local government all have some money earmarked for educational innovation. He lists them. Private funds and foundations, an area where money for the public school systems is growing rapidly, are listed and studied. Levenson tells what types of grants each foundation likes to fund (an extremely important idea).
As someone who has written and won school grants, I would have appreciated this book when I was a public school teacher. I think all school districts should have at least one copy of this book in each of their schools. It will encourage teachers to do what they can do best-teach, think, and write grants creatively.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools, March 13, 2003

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G. Cameron (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools (Paperback)

In an era of diminishing resources, Stanley Levenson's book is an invaluable tool for schools and districts alike. His easy to follow recipe for writing winning grants gives school personnel the confidence to write their own proposals without the need of contracting an outside consultant. His book includes examples of successful proposals which he also uses to familiarize the reader of effective writing styles. What I also found tremendously helpful were his fresh and creative approaches to fundraising which many schools and school districts tend to overlook. For a very small but wise investment, our schools have profited from Dr. Levenson's insight. I'm sure many others would, too.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools, March 27, 2003

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Howie Schaffer (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Get Grants and Gifts for the Public Schools (Paperback)

Fundraising for America's schools has gone way beyond the bake sale. You cannot bake enough cookies to give America's chools the money they need. However, you can buy this book and learn from legendary fundraising guru, Stanley Levenson, beneficial strategies, techniques, tools, and templates for creating an A+ school fundraising program. Levenson is rare among fundraising strategists because he focuses as much on "friendraising" as "fundraising." This book helps everyone, from beginners to expert grantwriters, to cultivate the skills, relationships, and savvy it takes to be successful in the competitive arena of public school fundraising. Stan Levenson also understands the central role of public education in a democratic society and how to use fundraising as a means of increasing public responsibility for quality education at a time when public school budgets are being slashed across the nation.