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Your Field Guide to Community Building, by Vicki Luther and Mary Emery.

This book seeks to advance peer learning among rural community practitioners.

You Have a Hammer: Building Grant Proposals for Social Change, by Barbara Floersch. Rootstock Publishing (2021)

This book urges readers to build proposals from a perspective of activism, transforming the work from the mundane pursuit of dollars to the life-altering pursuit of lasting change.

Writing With a Mission: How to Create a Successful Career as a Grant Writer, by Ashley Cain and Bruce Ripley. (2020)

This book explores what a grantwriter does, why it's a great career choice, what skills are needed, and how to get a foot in the door.

Writing to Win Federal Grants: A Must-Have for Your Fundraising Toolbox, by Cheryl L. Kester and Karen L. Cassidy. Charity Channel Press (2015)

This book covers a range of topics related to federal grants, including how federal grants work, building a fundraising team, prospect research, assessing an RFA, logic models, proposal writing, and more. 

Working With Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman. Bantam (2011)

This book focuses on using emotional intelligence at work. It explains why people who focus on skills and information are at a disadvantage compared to workers who have mastered their own emotions and understand the emotions of their co-workers.

Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and Writing Successful Proposals (5th edition) by Tori O'Neal McElrath, Lynn Kanter, and Lynn Jenkins English. Jossey-Bass (2019)

This workbook is a go-to resource for individuals and organizations looking for a clear, easy-to-follow approach to tackling the grantwriting process and winning funds. It also discusses the importance of relationship building, social media, and online resources to successful nonprofit funding.

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas. Knopf (2018)

This book investigates how the global elite's efforts to change the world preserve the status quo. 

Why Am I Always Being Researched?

This guidebook aims to help shift the power dynamic and the way community organizations, researchers, and funders uncover knowledge together. 

When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World, by Greg Jobin-Leeds. The New Press (2016)

This book shares lessons learned by leaders and activists of recent social movements on what makes, and what hinders, transformative social change. 

When in Doubt, Ask for More: And 213 Other Life and Career Lessons for the Mission-Driven Leader, by Alex Counts. Rivertowns Books (2020)

This book provides insights on the toughest challenges nonprofit leaders face. It helps nonprofit professionals get through the day feeling more in control while making a greater impact on the world they seek to serve.

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