This text takes a comprehensive approach to external funding for public and nonprofit agencies. Beginning with the search for funding and developing programs, it leads the reader through the technical steps of preparing an application, explaining the process used to make decisions, key aspects of grant management, and concluding with a summary of important factors directly pertaining to grant funds. Written from the perspective of community development, Grant Management: Funding for Public and Non-Profit Programs addresses overarching theoretical issues for public management as well as offers an applied perspective of grant funding and management.This is an ideal text for students and public and nonprofit managers alike.
Much more than a book on compiling grant proposals, Grant Management: Funding for Public and Nonprofit Programs presents grant writing in its broader organizational management framework. This text takes a comprehensive approach to external funding for public and nonprofit agencies. The book begins with an introduction to grants, their types, their history and their key characteristics to inform the next stagethe search for funding. A key part of any management process, an entire chapter considers the purpose and approaches to evaluation that should be considered in conjunction with grant-funded programs. The book concludes with a chapter that considers the process in reversehow to go about distributing funds as a grant maker rather than a grant seeker. This text leads the reader through the technical steps of preparing an application, explaining the process used to make decisions, key aspects of grant management, and includes a summary of important factors directly pertaining to grant funds. Written from the perspective of community development, With information drawn from core theories and tools of public administration, Grant Management: Funding for Public and Nonprofit Programs addresses overarching theoretical issues for public management as well as offers an applied perspective of grant funding and management. This is an ideal text for students and public and nonprofit managers alike.
Jeremy L. Hall, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Dallas. A Kentucky native, Hall began his professional career working in applied economic development in rural Eastern Kentucky as a researcher, grant writer and program manager for two large non-profit organizations--one a private not-for-profit agency and the other a regional state university. A graduate of Centre College, Hall earned the MPA and Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Kentucky Martin School. As a professor, Hall's academic research remains closely associated with his economic development background. Hall's focus at the nexus of public policy, public management and economic development has led to research articles that examine state innovation capacity and the effects of local capacity on federal grant receipts. His research appears in several national journals including Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, Economic Development Quarterly, and Policy Studies Journal, among others.