REC 475 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Per Diem, Data Analysis
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Grant writing: gratuitous income (even though you have to work for it by writing, it is a method of securing funds, this is uniquely american. This is why if there are any national disasters anywhere in the world americans are the main people to come to aid. Grants = major source of income for nonprofits. Random facts about grants: there are 70,000 granting organizations, more than billion distributed in 2006. Largest sector awarded with grants human services (us) Second largest sector awarded with grants education. You can get grants from: corporations. Grants from corporations make 4. 3% of the total: bequests, community foundations, individuals. Just an individual or independent nonprofits: independent nonprofits- nonprofits that get money and then give them out in grant forms to other nonprofits. Make up of 89% of all granting organizations. Attached/linked to a corporation but the funding decisions are separate from the corporation. Focus on needs of a particular community.
