Grant Writing Class in Salisbury, MD

Online, November 28, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Valerie Mann, Author of Getting Your Share of the Pie-The Complete Guide to Finding Grants
Offers All-Day Class on 12/6/11
Class to be held at the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce, 144 E. Main St., Salisbury, MD

This will be an all-day session, beginning at 9:00 a.m. and concluding at 5:00 p.m., with a 90-minute break for lunch, which is on your own. The cost is $115, plus an additional $10 for materials, which includes over 100 pages of helpful hints. Copies of the book will be available for sale at a 10% discount.

Ms. Mann would like to share with you the principles outlined in this book, which was listed as one of the top five business books of the week in the Washington Post Online and in the Wall Street Journal for the week of 1/7/11.

This class represents a complete course in grant writing from determining your need to searching for grants to writing the grant proposal to administering the project. The following topics will be covered:

Introduction, Identifying the Need and Designing the Project
Grant Searches
Tools for Grant Writers
Designing a Strategy and General Writing Principles
Writing the Grant Application
Grant Administration

If you would like to register and pay on the day of the class, send an email to Ms. Mann ([email protected]) with your contact information and number of people attending.

If you would like to register and pay in advance, go to this link:
http://www.best-grant-writing-workshop.com/grant-writing-workshop-salisbury-md/

After registering you will receive a confirmation email.

Getting Your Share of the Pie: The Complete Guide to Finding Grants, was published by Praeger in August of 2010, and will form the basis for this class. Praeger is one of the oldest and most distinguished publishers of reference books, guidebooks, and scholarly works in the country, with over 600 titles per year. This book was listed as one of the top 5 titles of the week in the Washington Post Online and the Wall Street Journal for the week of January 7, 2011.

getAbstract, a large, international, well-respected reviewer of business books, has given Getting Your Share of the Pie-The Complete Guide to Finding Grants, a 5-star rating on Amazon and a rating of 9 out of 10 on getAbstract's internal rating system. The book is featured prominently on getAbstract's web page as a top-ranked grant writing book. A five-page abstract of the book is available on the site (www.getabstract.com.getAbstract states on its website that "We monitor the publication of more than 10,000 business books every year. Every title that survives our initial team screening is rated...using a rigorous team review process. Our rating criteria are applicability, innovation and style. We prepare summaries only for those books that earn an overall rating of five or higher to assure the quality of the material. We pick 500 new titles every year. Books featured on getAbstract are of exceptional quality.

getAbstract's web site states that, "Our summaries are written by educated professionals, who have a strong grasp on the most important take-aways from each book. We have a thorough review process in place to ensure that only the most thought-provoking and timely publications make the cut to be included with the abstracts on our site."

The following is the review:

"Author and grant-writing expert Valerie J. Mann has successfully won close to $95 million for her clients. Now she's written a book for US organizations that don't have the expertise to learn what's available or the additional funds to hire a professional to prepare their grant applications. She makes grant writing an understandable, straightforward process, as she covers the initial search for funding, how to back up the claims in your proposal and even what you can learn from rejection. She includes a glossary of common terms, a sample grant proposal and other useful information. Mann delves into the specific details of several different kinds of grants, particularly for law enforcement.... Will this book make you an expert? Well, that takes experience, but getAbstract finds that this helpful manual will initiate beginners and set any grant seeker on a productive path."

Ms. Mann has written approximately 700 grant applications which have yielded more than $100,000,000 for her clients, upping the amount of grants received since the writing of the getAbstract review. These clients have included municipalities, counties, nonprofits, law enforcement agencies, fire departments, hospitals, and universities. Funds have been used for a wide variety of projects including street rehabilitation and construction, water and sewer, parks and recreation, fire protection, law enforcement, historic preservation, heritage tourism, economic development, and healthcare.

Her offices are located at 700 Grason Lane,Fruitland, Md.21826, and she can be reached by telephone at 410-546-3801. The website is
http://www.best-grant-writing-workshop.com/