Download: Grant Writing Revealed: 25 Experts Share Their Art, Science & Secrets Book
A 187-page book based on interviews with people who raised half a billion dollars.
"This book is a must have for your grants library," Gail Vertz, Past CEO, Grant Professionals Association"In this thought-provoking book, Jana beautifully expresses the humanity and spirituality of grant writing"
Lynne Twist, best-selling author of The Soul of Money
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What Others Are Saying
“This book is a must have for your grants library! This book will allow you to glean the tips from the ‘best of the best’. Jana Jane Hexter has done an excellent job of compiling a wealth of invaluable information from the top experts in the grants industry.”
- Gail Vertz, GPC, Former CEO, Grant Professionals Association
“A big shout out to Jana for writing a book filled with wisdom and compassion and given to us with a deep spirit of generosity.”
– Jeff Furman,
Trustee, Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
“In this thought-provoking book, Jana beautifully expresses the humanity and spirituality of grant writing. It is not a checklist of steps to follow but a call for deeper relatedness. Jana has a knack for making the interviewees come alive, so in the end it doesn’t feel like you’ve just read a “how-to” book so much as it feels like you have been sitting in a room with this group of fundraising veterans listening to them share their secrets.”
– Lynne Twist,
Bestselling author of The Soul of Money
Founder and President of the Soul of Money Institute
“Reading this book was like sitting at the table with the superstars of grant development as they reflect on the nuanced details that have made them successful. The advantage to reading the book, over being at the table, is Jana Hexter’s brilliant organization of the anecdotes into a discernible pattern of behavior. Ms. Hexter’s own voice is one of story teller–engaging, humorous, insightful, and personal. Through down-to-earth analogies, practical examples, and a highly personable interpretation of the interviewees’ stories, this book presents the key practices of successful grant development in a way that sticks!”
– Anke Wessels, Executive Director,
Center for Transformative Action
“The advice is dead-on: for the novice it is eye-opening; for the veteran it is re-enforcing and encouraging. I found my own thoughts, challenges, successes and worries written throughout the book. One thing is for sure: proposal developers need mixed personalities – dominatrix and psychologist, military-grade planner and community healer. It’s all here and it’s all critical. This is a marvelous gift to proposal writers for our practice, for our institutions, for ourselves.”
– Sarah S. Brophy, author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready?“Grant writing is often a frustrating and difficult exercise. Jana Hexter’s book takes an optimistic and slightly spiritual approach to the task of writing good grants while providing the reader with a clear and thorough explanation of the process. She makes grant writing seem almost like fun!”
– Jane B. O’Connell, President, Altman Foundation“I was struck the number of jewels in this book. Most good grant writing books give you the author’s expert opinion but Jana’s book gives you 25 experts’ opinions. She brings out their best thinking as they go beyond the science to the art of good grant writing, something that takes years to master.”
– Michael Wells, GPC, CFRE Author of Grantwriting Beyond the Basics series“This book is the ‘Open Sesame’ of grant writing’s hidden little secrets to successful proposals. Jana Hexter has unlocked the door to show how grant writing is an art form and a science. She reveals the secrets of writing with honesty and integrity. She shares home-spun personal anecdotes and her humor to get the points across and to help us remember them.” –Donald A. Griesmann, ret’d Episcopal clergy and legal services lawyer
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We are used to doing things by transaction “I’ll give you x if you give me y” or getting free promos. A gift is different. A gift involves reciprocity, going to and fro between a group of people (the root words are re and pro, back and forth). Think about your family or a tribal or religious community. In those circumstances, we give gifts to members of the family not expecting it to be returned to us in the same form. But we know that the gift recipient will be given to others when the need arises, and that as a member of that group we will be taken care of by the gifts others have given at other times. In many communities around the world, gifts are grounded in trust, community, and recognition that we need each other. The norms of our modern society are based in a sense of separation, scarcity, and competition. In modern society, this idea of gifts being freely shared and passed onto others, maybe never returning directly to you, makes no sense. I offer this gift to you as a member of my global family. It is not an act of charity on my part but more a recognition of our sacred interdependence.Why?
There are pioneers in our country who are experimenting with creating more nurturing and sustainable ways of relating. You may have heard of the Karma Kitchen in Berkeley, a restaurant where there are no prices on the menu and where the check reads $0.00 with only this footnote: “Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those dine after you.” They have served over 30,000 meals. Or, Burning Man which is a gift-based community festival welcoming 48,000+ people.
This is my version of the experiment. It’s both idealistic AND practical
With this leap into the unknown, I am exploring what it is to live my life as a gift and to co-create a gift economy in a global context. It’s my attempt to pollinate a new way of relating to each other that is kinder and more fulfilling. Our lives were freely given as a gift, as was the astronomically beautiful and generous natural world that we were born into. Our deepest yearning is to serve and share the natural gifts and talents that we all have, but we often deny that urge because of financial concerns. Our ecological, political, and economic systems are in upheaval and calling for us to evolve and create a new way of relating. We are in the formative stages of creating new structures that honor our inherent unity and are grounded in trust, community, and generosity. This will include new financial structures to support different ways of relating. Gifting this book is my contribution to creating that structure. I am committed to creating a world in which the feminine in all her forms is powerfully and freely expressed and all life is honored as sacred. Given these beliefs and commitment, I gift this book to you as a step toward the next phase of our evolution in kindness and trust. My deepest wish is that you use this book to sing a song from your soul that benefits us all and to borrow a phrase from Charles Eisenstein ‘create the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible.’So, if you’d like a gift copy of the book…
Please fill out the information below and then let me know how you will pay-it-forward and/or will use it to benefit your community. Then come back in a few weeks or months and share your story.
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