Grants Office Hand-Outs
- Budget Preparation
- Proposal Planning
- Writing Tips
- How to Structure a Proposal -- The Grant Whale
- How to FInd Grants
Educational Resources on the Web
- A Guide to Proposal Planning and Writing -- Marquette University -- Lynn E. Miner provides an all-purpose guide on getting started in grantseeking.
- Proposal Writing Short Course -- The Foundation Center -- Details the steps involved in planning and preparing a foundation proposal and offers tips on proposal writing.
- Grant Proposal Writing Tips -- Corporation for Public Broadcasting -- Good guide for basic grant proposal preparation, with a particular focus on the pre-writing stage
- Developing and Writing Grant Proposals -- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance published by the federal government's General Services Administration -- A comprehensive overview of preparation of federal grant application proposals.
- Grantwriting Tools for Non-Profit Organizations -- Non-Profit Guides outlines for creating inquiry letters and short proposals to foundation and corporate funding sources, including samples.
- Grants Information Center -- University of Wisconsin - Madison -- Comprehensive list of resources on grantwriting.
- Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal -- University of Michigan Agriculture and Extension Education -- S. Joseph Levine provides detailed writing hints for each major section of a proposal along with examples.
- Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal: A selection of books to help with the preparation of a funding proposal -- University of Michigan Agriculture and Extension Education -- S. Joseph Levine also offers reviews of a number of books on grantwriting.
- Why Proposals Fail -- University of Oklahoma -- A list of ten reasons why a proposal might be unsuccessful -- from the Polaris Corporation.
- Organizing a Proposal -- James Madison University -- General format for a proposal when guidelines aren't specific, including brief descriptions of each section.
- Writing a Successful Grant Proposal -- The Minnesota Council on Foundations -- A comprehensive article on proposal writing from the funding source's perspective.
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Writing for Business and Pleasure -- Minneapolis Star Tribune -- A variety of links to grantwriting resources and some brief columns by Stephen Wilbers entitled Resources Available for
Writing Grant Proposals, Use the Internet for Help with Writing Grant
Proposals, Writing with Heart Improves Odds of Getting Grant, and Grant
Proposals: Writing is Just Part of the Process.