This book is about how to be persuasive in two key skills in business: writing proposals and writing business plans. Step by step, the Author illustrates the techniques of effective business writing, with numerous examples throughout

This book identifies and addresses the key areas of business for nonprofit organizations, from public relations and strategic planning to office management and the effective use of information technology and features a refocused strategic planning chapter that presents an ongoing, organic form of planning and covers critical topics

This book is about a young orphan girl, who grew up with her Grandfather in Barbados. She lived a very free and happy life in that sunny land. When her grandfather died, she is left alone and penniless at the age of sixteen. The only choice she has is to go to America, where her aunt lived

Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is famous for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. None of her foster homes has been able to tame yet. So when Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters - by far the strangest foster family of all - she decides to put her brilliant mind to work

This exciting novel captures the warmth, humor — and squabbles — of three spunky sisters. Meet the Sisters Club: twelve-year-old Alex, aspiring actress and born drama queen; eight-year-old Joey, homework lover and pioneer wannabe; and smack in the middle, ten-year-old Stevie, the glue that holds them together — through dinner disasters, disputes over stolen lucky sweaters, and Alex's going gaga over her leading man. Playfully weaving ...

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augusts Dushene encounters a fortuneteller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her

Noah and his friends follow a trail of mysterious clues to uncover a secret behind the walls of the Clarksville City Zoo - a secret that must be protected all costs

Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition

This Book examines the actual management issues involved in implementing CRM initiatives, relying exclusively on more than two dozen case histories from around the world. Readers will be introduced to the groundbreakers, the pathfinders, and the explorers of a vast and rapidly expanding new universe of customer - based business strategies