Getting Ready to Seek Grant Support for Your Organization.
The keys to grants success: being proactive and focusing on the grantor
Searching the literature to document your project's statement of need: creating an urgent and compelling case
Using time management to integrate a proactive grants system into your career
The grant-winning approach: expanding your possible solutions
Developing key search terms to identify the best grantor(s): redefining your project and improving your research/grants profile to get the right hits
Why grant funds to you and your organization: capitalizing on your capabilities
Creating grant-winning teams and consortia: involving volunteers through advisory committees and advisory groups
Selecting the right marketplace for your project
Documenting organizational support for your proposal: preproposal summary and approval
Public/Governmental Funding Opportunities.
Understanding the government grants marketplace
Researching the federal government marketplace
Contacting government grantors, past grantees, and past reviewers
Planning the successful federal proposal
Improving your federal proposal: the grants quality circle
Submission: what to do and what not to do
Federal grant requirements
Dealing with the decision of public funding sources
Follow-up with government funding sources
Private/Foundation Funding Opportunities.
Understanding the private foundation marketplace
Researching potential private foundation grantors: how to find the foundation that is best suited to fund your project
Contacting a private foundation before submission
Applying for private foundation funds: letter of inquiry and letter proposal
Proposal submission, the decision, and follow-up: private foundation funding sources
Private/Corporate Funding Opportunities.
Understanding the corporate marketplace
Researching potential corporate grantors: how to find the corporate funding source that is best suited to fund your project
Contacting a corporate grantor before submission
Applying for corporate funds
Proposal submission, the decision, and follow-up: corporate grantors
Putting it all together to work for you.
