Table of Contents
List of Exhibits, Figures, and Tables
Introduction
Part 1: Getting Ready to Seek Grant Support for You and Your Organization
- Grant Seeking Pitfalls and Potential Hazards
- Your Plan for Grants Success and How to Get There
- Creating a Success Based Proactive Grants System
- Integrating Time Management into a Successful Grants Career
- Searching the Literature to Document Your Project’s Statement of Need: Creating and Urgent and Compelling Case
- Developing and Evaluating Alternative Solutions
- Creating Key Search Terms to Identify the Best Grantor(s): Redefining Your Project and Improving Your Research/Grants Profile
- Capitalizing on Your Capabilities
- Forming Grant-Winning Teams and Consortia: Recruiting Volunteers for Advisory Groups
- Documenting Organizational Support for Your Proposal: Preproposal Approval
- Where the Money Is: Selecting the Right Marketplace for Your Project
Part 2: Public/Government Funding Opportunities
- Understanding the Government Grants Marketplace
- Researching the Federal Government Marketplace
- Completing Your Research and Contacting Government Grantors, Past Grantees, and Past Reviewers to Increase Your Success Rate
- Planning the Successful Federal Proposal
- Improving Your Federal Proposal: The Grants Quality Circle
- Submission
- Federal Grant Requirements
- Dealing with the Decision of Public Funding Sources
- Follow-Up with Government Funding Sources
Part 3: Private/Foundation Funding Opportunities
- Understanding the Foundation Grants 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
- Quality Circles, Proposal Submission, the Decision, and Follow-Up: Private Foundation Funding Sources
Part 4: Private/Corporate Funding Opportunities
- Understanding the Corporate Grants Marketplace
- Researching Corporate Grantors: How to Find the Corporate Funding Source That Is Best Suited to Fund Your Project
- Preproposal Contact with Corporate Grantors
- Applying for Corporate Funds
- Corporate Proposal Submission, the Decision, and Follow-Up
- Putting It All Together to Work for You
List of Resources
Index
About the Author