Grant Writing

"Covering the entire fundraising process, this comprehensive text offers a wealth of practical strategies for pursuing "big time" grants and gifts for America’s public schools."

Contents: Grantmakers and grantseekers -- Reactive grantseeking -- Proactive grantseeking -- Thoughtful planning -- Before you write -- The five core components of every grant proposal -- Beyond the basics -- The grantwriting craft -- Individualizing your proposals by type of project -- Grantwriting in different fields of nonprofit practice -- While you wait -- Yes or no -- Professional grantwriting.

Contents: Fundraising tools -- Developing your fundraising plan -- Attracting individual supporters -- How to keep the givers giving -- Midscale and major donors -- Funds from the great beyond : bequests and planned gifts -- Special events -- Raising money through business or sales activities -- Seeking grants from foundations, corporations, and government -- Creating printed communications materials -- Designing you website for maximum fundraising effectiveness -- Media outreach.

Contains two separate toolkits developed by AUCD from a pilot project for federal funding of self-advocacy organizations. The goal of the projects was to help self-advocacy organizations become more independent and achieve 501c3 status, which is also known as becoming a tax-exempt non-profit organization.

Self instructional grant module for professionals and graduate students competing for federal grants in the fields of education, developmental disabilities, mental health, community psychology, and human and social services.

"This text provides comprehensive advice on how to build a successful grant proposal, from the top down and from the bottom up. Editor Robert J. Sternberg gathers editorial expertise from distinguished members of associations in the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, which includes some of the most successful grant applicants and grant givers in the field of brain and behavioral sciences. The chapter authors offer readers practical advice on planning, executing, submitting, and revising grant proposals in order to maximize their chances of success."