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The goal of this newsletter is to connect with you and help with your grant seeking, training, capacity building and/or managing. We've included many useful resources, but it's not the same as personal attention. If you'd like some one-on-one consultation, just click reply and send us a message. We'd love to help your organization get the money it needs to succeed!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! A Time To Celebrate and Offer Our Gifts!

During this holiday season, take time to pause, count your blessings, agree to disagree when needed, and celebrate your gifts. We are all “gifted” and can share our talents, skills and strengths in different ways. One way my church celebrates and provides gifts is by offering an “Alternative Christmas Market”. By giving a gift of charity in someone’s honor, it supports community needs such as Habitat for Humanity, Disaster Assistance or Interfaith Hospitality Network. Butler Consulting celebrates our gifts of grant seeking, fundraising, training, teaching, managing and capacity building by offering them to you - our clients, customers and supporters nationally for the last 18 years. We look forward to working together in 2013!

Co-Author of Book

Linda Gatten Butler, MSW, ACSW, LISW-S, is a co-author in a new book- “Grant Writing Revealed: 25 Experts Share Their Art, Science, and Secrets”- by Jana Jane Hexter. The book includes the wisdom of twenty-five of America’s top grant writing experts, who collectively have raised $1.7 billion dollars during their careers. This book along with a companion online self-assessment tool is available for the non-profit and social entrepreneur sectors, and is being gifted to the community by Ms. Hexter on her website. “People can download it and may choose to pay-it-forward in the same spirit,” says Hexter. “It is not an act of charity on my part but more gratefulness for the gift of life and recognition of our sacred interdependence. Our economy is changing and this is my attempt to create another reality worthy of our children’s future.” The book is also available on Amazon.

Workshops & Trainings

6 Ways to Change Your Life
sponsored by Elderly Service Providers for FREE
February 12, 2013, 12:00 to 1:30 PM at Villa Springfield Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 701 Villa Rd., Springfield, Ohio, providing lunch and one CPE for social workers, counselors, MFTs and nurses (approved by the CSWMFT Board for provider Butler Consulting- RSX071003). To register e-mail Michelle Hemphill call 937-399-5551.

Laughter Therapy
sponsored by Hospitality House for FREE
February 21, 2013, 5:30 to 7:00PM at Logan’s Steakhouse, Beavercreek, Ohio, providing dinner and one CPE for social workers, counselors, MFTs and nurses (approved by the CSWMFT Board for provider Butler Consulting- RSX071003). To register e-mail Diane Hollenbeck or call 937-372-2656.

Funder Spotlight

Improve Rural Healthcare
Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Grant Program
POSTED: 12/3/2012
FUNDING SOURCE: HRSA
ELIGIBILITY: Rural healthcare providers
$ AVAILABLE: N.A.
GRANTS AVAILABLE: 60
MAX GRANT SIZE: $150,000
DEADLINE: 1/30/2013
DESCRIPTION: Funds to support to rural primary care providers for implementation of quality improvement activities.
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Verizon Foundation App Challenge
The Verizon Innovative App Challenge provides the opportunity for middle school and high school students, working with a faculty advisor, to use their STEM concept that incorporates STEM and addresses a need or problem in their school or community. The challenge deadline is January 18, 2013.
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SBIR Grants for Cutting-Edge Science and Technology
Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I (Release 2)
POSTED: 11/27/2012
FUNDING SOURCE: DOE
ELIGIBILITY: For-profits and individuals
$ AVAILABLE: N.A.
GRANTS AVAILABLE: N.A.
MAX GRANT SIZE: N.A.
DEADLINE: 2/5/2013 (final)
DESCRIPTION: Grants to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business concerns, especially those engaged in biological and chemical technologies, education applications, electronics, information, and communication technologies, and nanotechnology, advanced materials, and manufacturing.
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Workshops & Trainings (con't)

Behavioral Health Challenges
sponsored by Hospitality House for FREE
June 20, 2013, 5:30 to 7:00PM at Logan’s Steakhouse, Beavercreek, Ohio, providing dinner and one CPE for social workers, counselors, MFTs and nurses (approved by the CSWMFT Board for provider Butler Consulting- RSX071003). To register e-mail Diane Hollenbeck or call 937-372-2656.

Ethics for Professionals
sponsored by Hospitality House for FREE
October 17, 2013, 5:30 to 9:00PM at Logan’s Steakhouse, Beavercreek, Ohio, providing dinner and three CPEs for social workers, counselors, MFTs and nurses (approved by the CSWMFT Board for provider Butler Consulting- RSX071003). To register e-mail Diane Hollenbeck or call 937-372-2656.