Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop to be held at the Wilshire Grand Hotel Center

Downtown , L A
July 9 – 10, 2009

Stimulus funding:

What you need to know now

March 12, 2009 — Nonprofits should be ready to move quickly, now that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Obama.
In The Cohen Report (February 14 and February 15, 2009), a web publication of The Nonprofit Quarterly, Rick Cohen explores the significance of the Act for nonprofit organizations. Provisions of the Act include:

$150 million for economically distressed communities;
$225 million for Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs;
$100 million for Community Development Financial Institutions;
$750 million for worker training and placement (of this amount, $500 million is for careers in efficient and renewable energy–green jobs)
$50 million for capacity-building grants that will go directly to nonprofit organizations.

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I remember a time at the doctor’s office when he was getting ready to give me a shot. “This is going to sting a little,” he said and he was right. Now we’re watching cascading failures in the economy as GM and Chrysler are on life support and billions of dollars are printed to restore a broken credit system.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick calls the stimulus being injected into the economy a ‘sugar high’ that will result in a deeper depression on the other side. As a long time Coke addict (the drink, not the drug) I can attest that you don’t feel better when the sugar wears off.

Even our own John Husing, usually a parenial optomist, points to the next reset of Option ARM mortgages coming at the end of this year. The regulators and the bankers need to untie this knot quick, or we’ll all yearn for the good old days of last August’s crash.

This is not a cyclical change. Our economy is undergoing a profound structural change. On the other side of this, the economy, our country and how we live will look a lot different than it does today. Whether this is good or bad depends on how we react to it.

We are seeing people coming together in creative ways to save companies or start new ones. People a starting to work together. They’re not waiting for a government bailout. They’re moving on.

When this is past, we have the chance to be better people. We’ll pay more attention to what our government is doing. We’ll watch our finances better. We’ll find strengths we didn’t know we had.

But it’s going to sting a little.

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Binah Advisory, Presents Tips for Increasing Revenues During a Recession

The economic crisis has contributed to renewed attention by Entrepreneurs & Senior Executives in improving the day to day operations of business. Improving areas of the business that are ineffective is one critical step towards weathering the recessionary storm.

Most of the times improving those ineffective and inefficient areas of the business that matter most can give your business a competitive edge, and prepare you for hyper growth when the economy turns around. Where many see doom and gloom, the smart businesses see opportunity. Becoming more effective in the day to day business operations is critical to focusing on creativity and seeing new opportunities otherwise missed.

Tullio Siragusa, in his book “Unlocking Your Empire”, by Binah Advisory Publishing, offers sound advice on getting more from your existing book of business.

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