The "how to" grants manual: successful grantseeking techniques for obtaining public and private grants

Getting ready to seek grant support for you and your organization

Public/government funding opportunities

Private/foundation funding opportunities

Private/corporate funding opportunities.

Part 1. 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 your 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

Part 2. 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

Part 3. 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

Part 4. 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.

Part 1. Getting ready to seek grant support for your organization

1. Motivating yourself to follow a proactive, success-based grants system

2. Searching the literature to document your project's statement of need: creating an urgent and compelling case

3. Developing a proactive grants system: finding the time to organize for grants success

4. The grant-winning approach: expanding your possible solutions

5. Developing key search terms to identify the best grantor(s): redefining your project and improving your research/grants profile to get the right hits

6. Why grant funds to you and your organization?: capitalizing on your capabilities

7. Creating grant-winning teams and consortia: involving volunteers through advisory committees and advocacy groups

8. Selecting the right marketplace for your project

9. Documenting organizational support for your proposal: preproposal summary and approval

Part 2. Public/government funding opportunities

10. Understanding the government grants marketplace

11. Researching the government marketplace

12. How to contact government grant sources

13. Planning the successful federal proposal

14. Improving your federal proposal: the grants quality circle

15. Submission: what to do and what not to do

16. Federal grant requirements

17. Dealing with the decision of public funding sources

18. Follow-up with government funding sources

Part 3. Private/foundation funding opportunities

19. Understanding the private foundation marketplace

20. Researching potential private foundation grantors: how to find the foundation that is best suited to fund your project

21. Contacting a private foundation before submission

22. Applying for private foundation funds: letter of inquiry-letter proposal

23. Proposal submission, the decision, and follow-up: private foundation funding sources

Part 4. Private/corporate funding opportunities

24. Understanding the corporate marketplace

25. Researching potential corporate grantors: how to find the corporate funding source that is best suited to fund your project

26. Contacting a corporate grantor before submission

27. Applying for corporate funds

28. Proposal submission, the decision, and follow-up: corporate grantors.

Getting ready to seek grant support for your organization

Public/government funding opportunities

Private/foundation funding opportunities

Private/corporate funding opportunities.

Organizing a proposal-development workbook

Developing and evaluating proposal ideas

Redefining proposal ideas to find more funding sources

Needs assessment

Capitalizing on your differences

Your case statement

Advocates : How to use them

Advisory committees : how to develop community support

Choosing the correct marketplace

Researching the government marketplace

Characteristics of government grants

How to contact government funding sources

The project planner

Checklist for government proposal preparation

Submission : what to do and what not to do

Dealing with the decision of public funding sources

Follow-up with government funding sources

The difference between private and public funding

How to record research and information

Foundation funding source research tools

Corporate funding sources and research tools

How to contact a private funding source

Applying for private funds : the letter proposal.

Submission and whom to contact on follow-up

The decision of private funders

Follow-up with private funding sources

Grant resource bibliography.