Small Learning

The Quick Wise Guide to Writing Grant Proposals presents an in-depth short course in the elements of a good grant-proposal narrative. You’ll learn what questions funders expect to see answered and how to weave those answers into a compelling case for support of your nonprofit. Unlike other grant-writing guides, this quick guide concentrates solely on the writing process to help you express yourself with clarity and passion. Its informal style will make you feel like a good friend is guiding you along.

Even if you only have a tiny balcony to work with, you can grow fresh food and flowers there. You've probably already considered container gardening - but what about vertical gardening with vining plants that can grow up the wall or using a vertical aeroponics gardening system that can grow 20+ plants in a four square foot area?

Bennie Pollard has spent his entire adult life working his butt off. After a very challenging childhood, Pollard followed in his mother’s and aunt’s footsteps who were both hairdressers. Pollard started cosmetology school in the early 1980s. He went on to open his own salon in 1992, and by the early 2000s he added “manufacturer” to his resume. Motivated by some of the world’s most influential speakers, Pollard began to make plans to expand his mark on the beauty industry.

Whether we know it or not, we are disconnected and searching more than ever. Learning to Unlearn traverses observations and perspectives regarding the human condition; how culture, technology, and conventional norms are feeding the dis-integration of who we have become, and who we actually are.

Do you want to get into the self-publishing business? Would you like to write, sell, and publish books for profit? If your answer is "yes", you need this audiobook! From the author of How to Write a Book and many others. Self-publishing can be big business if you know how to go about it. In this audiobook, you will find everything you need to know about writing, publishing, and promoting your own eBooks and paperbacks on KDP, and your own audiobooks on Audible!

The reasons to start a small garden are truly endless.... And the best part? It isn’t some kind of complex task that demands tremendous time or energy. It doesn't matter if you have zero experience with gardening, everybody starts somewhere.

Indentured servant Alice Cole barely remembers when she was not “bound”, first to the Morton family, then to their daughter Nabby—her companion since childhood—when she wed. But Nabby’s new marriage is not happy, and when Alice finds herself torn between her new master and her old friend, she runs away to Boston. There she meets a sympathetic widow named Lyddie Berry and her lawyer companion, Eben Freeman. Stowing away on their ship to Satucket on Cape Cod, Alice finds employment making cloth with Lyddie. Yet Alice soon discovers freedom has a price higher than she imagined.

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh, explains how start-up businesses can quickly expand into global corporations with industry-altering products and services. Blitzscaling, a term for a group of tactics used to rapidly grow businesses, has been employed by technology companies such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Amazon to reach more customers, capture more of a given market, and improve overall profits. (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book. If you’re looking for the original book, it is available from Amazon and Audible.)

How you create a legendary school starting tomorrow. Have you ever wondered, why didn’t they teach me about this in school?

Las palabras, las grandes y las pequeñas, son puentes que nos unen. Nunca nacen solas. Hay tantos autores que han escrito grandes y luminosas palabras sobre la Gestalt. Yo escribo palabras pequeñas porque creo que también importan. Escribir es mi forma de aprender, pensar, de hacerme preguntas, de intentar contestarlas, de perderme y, a veces, de encontrarme, es decir, de escribir gestálticamente.

Justice in Plain Sight is the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job: tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyer Jim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the US Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the public - including the press - needed to bear witness to justice....

Business, like any adventure, begins with a leap into the unknown. Brian Tracy's first dream was of a journey. Not a leisurely drive to the beach or a weekend campout-a wide open adventure that would take him 17,000 miles from his home on Canada's Pacific Coast all the way to South Africa. His journey - a harrowing series of false starts, long days, and narrow escapes- taught him about "becoming unstoppable," not only in pursuing adventure but in daily life and business as well.

Dr. Gary S. Goodman's Inch by Inch It's a Cinch: How to Accomplish Anything One Small Step at a Time will show you to how to get more done in less time with fewer setbacks by reining in your runaway ambition, going instead for small victories that add up fast.

What does it take to become a successful author in today’s publishing world? It’s not enough to write a powerful book - today’s author must understand and leverage the business side of writing. Authorpreneurship: The Business of Writing by Sharon Jenkins takes the aspiring writer from curiosity to career, combining both sides of publishing - author and entrepreneur - to empower writers with direction, publishing options, marketing solutions, and business savvy to grow their career.

Ninja Future is an essential listen for businesses and individuals striving to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving world: Gary Shapiro, the president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, casts his eye toward the future, charting how the innovative technologies of today will transform not only the way business is done, but society itself.

The often hilarious and sometimes poignant story behind Dal LaMagna's attempts to create a successful business. By the time LaMagna graduated from the Harvard Business School, his numerous entrepreneurial activities - including operating discotheques in drive-in movie theaters, working with the 1960s musical teen sensations the Cowsills, and opening an ice cream parlor on the Venice Beach boardwalk - had landed him $150,000 in debt. Raising Eyebrows tells the story of how he finally succeeded. After years of failures and living pennilessly, LaMagna finally succeed with tweezers. He started Tweezerman, one of the world's most respected, innovative and successful beauty tool manufacturers with only $500. Not only was Tweezerman a financial success but is became a model of how to operate a company responsibly.

Once he received a spark in the form of some key "ah-ha moments", Snow decided to step outside his comfort zone, making many pivotal choices along the way to find his hidden potential. Learning to Choose highlights seven of these choices and the learning lessons that followed on his path to arts advocacy, community building, and creative entrepreneurship. The goal with sharing the stories within this book is to help inspire others to change their life, their community, and maybe even the world as a result of discovering the higher calling buried within all of us.

It isn't just the startups that see the value in the lean way of business. Alaskan Airlines, General Electric, 3M, Telefonica, and other companies have implemented many of the elements that lean start-ups use. Because start-ups are meant to be fast-growing, the lean start-up idea was thought to only work well for those businesses that revolved around the online world. Technology has made it easier to start a business in less time, which is why many entrepreneurs are drawn to technology-driven businesses.

How can you: Build a business that allows you to travel the world, enjoy a 5-figures monthly income, and Create a machine that gives you $3 every time you put $1 in it? If you're looking for a get rich quick scheme, then this audiobook is not for you. The business model you are about to reveal is a clever way to sell products online without buying them first. This simple business model has already created millionaires all over the world - and there is no reason why you won't do that as well.

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of 35, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world", he strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly.