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The ultimate insider's guide to winning foundation grants : a foundation CEO reveals the secrets you need to know
Martin Teitel ; foreword by Amy Goldman.
Medfield, Mass. : Emerson & Church, c2012. 188pp.
Funding Center (1 East) HG 177 .T45 2012
Reading The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Winning Foundation Grants is like peeking at someone's secret diary or personal email. You feel guilty. This is privileged information. Only in this case Martin Teitel WANTS to reveal everything to you. A long-time foundation CEO, he's fed up with the smoke and mirrors of grant seeking. As head of the Cedar Tree Foundation, Teitel dispensed tens of millions of dollars in grants. He knows the secrets, the preferred approaches, the red flags - and he wants you to know them, too. He's committed to leveling the playing field. What you have in Teitel's book are 188 pages of private information no one before has had to courage to reveal. It's like finding hundred dollar bills on the ground. You ask yourself: What did I do to deserve this good fortune?
Also available through interlibrary loan.