The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Attracting the Attention Your Cause Deserves

Joseph Barbato is president of Barbato Associates, a consulting firm whose clients include many of the nation’s leading nonprofits. He has worked as a writer, editor and director in the public relations and development offices of several institutions, including New York University, The Nature Conservancy, and the City University of New York. He is the author or coauthor of six earlier books, two of which were featured on The Today Show.” His most recent book, How to Write Knockout Proposals (Emerson & Church, Publishers), won a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called it sound, clear and to the point ... a lifeline for anyone who has ever struggled to write a grant proposal.” Barbato has worked on both sides of the media pitch. He has been a writer, columnist, and editor for many magazines, and a contributor to The New York Times, USA Today, Smithsonian, The Washington Post, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. His syndicated features appeared for many years in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, and other newspapers. As a publicist, he has won new recognition for the people and programs of many nonprofits in education, health care, and other fields. As publicity director for the New York Book Fair, an annual publishing event held in Madison Square Garden, Lincoln Center, and other Manhattan locations in the 1970s and 80s, he helped bring national attention to the work of hundreds of independent book publishers from throughout the country.Joseph Barbato is the author of 'The Mercifully Brief, Real World Guide to Attracting the Attention Your Cause Deserves', published 2005 under ISBN 9781889102061 and ISBN 1889102067.