Finding Funding.

As school boards continue to struggle with budgetary constraints, school leaders would do well to seek, identify, and mine external funding sources. This book deals with the what, why, where, and how-to of grants and government support.

Based on an accumulated 60 years of grantsmanship and project management among the three authors, the newly updated Finding Funding succeeds as the most coherent, instructive volume of its kind. The guidebook contains current information on various funding sources, including listings, addresses, and government publications. Essential authorities, such as the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, are covered in detail.

The book also addresses competitive proposal development with samples; project implementation, oversight, and closure; and the major aspects of the U.S. Education Department's "General Administrative Regulations."

Finding Funding is highly recommended for school system leaders, especially grants administrators, new project coordinators, and grant writers.

(Finding Funding: Grantwriting and Project Management from Start to Finish, by Ernest W. Brewer, Charles M. Achilles, and Jay R. Fuhriman, Corwin Press, 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, Calif. 91320, 1995, 280 pp., $39.95 softcover)