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The following are
many helpful sites for grant seekers. For those of you whom have never
written a grant before, it may seem like a difficult task. The helpful
links below will assist you in just about every area that deals with the
basics of grantwriting. Below, you will find step-by-step guides that
take you on a successful journey of writing winning grant proposals. Many
of the following links offer listing of available grants, tips on planning
and proposal development, basic facts, as well as, answers to all of your
questions. Whether you are a grantseeker, grantwriter, researcher, professor,
or just someone generally interested in the grant world, we are certain
that you will find the following links very useful.
http://www.Grantwriters.com
This site is organized into four parts: free information about what's
hot and new in the grant writing world; the bookstore--your source for
the best in grant writing materials including books, guides and diskettes
loaded with sample documents; training including open workshops, on-site
programs, university courses and web-based instruction; plus services
from generating the first idea to submitting a winning grant proposal.
http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/grants.html
EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial. View GRANTS online, or download the program.
This interactive software tool walks the user through the grant-writing
process and helps them learn to write more competitive grants.
http://www.wavelan.com/education/pdfs/grantwriting.pdf
Lucent Technologies' free grant writing guide for educators. Includes
tips on project planning and proposal development. This requires Adobe
Acrobat Reader to open downloaded files.
http://www.seanet.com/~sylvie/grants.htm
This page includes a list of grant planning questions and a list
of basic proposal elements that are very useful. This site also includes
many other helpful links to assist in the grant writing process.
http://www.grantsdirect.com/Research101.htm
This is an excellent site that provides you with the information
you need to identify links and connections to foundations. Each foundation
has its own characteristics and personality. This site assists you in
recognizing and identifying important data, information, and details.
This is a great beginners site that can assist you in the research process.
http://www.research.umich.edu/research/proposals/proposal_dev/pwg/pwgpage.html
This is a useful, step-by-step guide for writing proposals. This
site takes you from beginning to end in the proposal writing process.
Starting from the title page all the way to deadlines, this site doesn’t
miss a step. This site also offers a few examples of completed proposals
to assist you in the writing process.
http://www.scn.org/ip/cds/cmp/proposal.htm
This site teaches you how to get money from donors. With its fun colors
and interesting layout, this site is very informational. It offers some
great suggestions on proposal writing and then takes you through the process.
http://fdncenter.org/onlib/shortcourse/prop1.html
Offered by the Foundation Center, this is a well-developed short
course for proposal writing. Make notice that there are two parts to this
proposal writing guide.
http://fdncenter.org
The mission of the Foundation Center is to foster public understanding
of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating
information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects. This
is an all-encompassing site that is designed for grantseekers, grantmakers,
researchers, policymakers, the media, and the general public. This site
includes an entire library of available funding sources, national statistics,
and foundation profiles. It also offers information of how to write a
proposal. Further, the site lists current job openings for the non-profit
industry.
http://www.npguides.org/grant.htm
This site offers, what it calls, a 10-Point Plan for Standard Grant
Funding Proposal. This grantwriting guide, for the most part, pertains
to private grantseeking. However, some of the sample grants do apply to
public or government grantseeking. The comprehensive grantwriting includes:
a sample inquiry letter, a complete sample of private grant application,
a public planning grant application, a public implementation grant application,
a grant budget, a cover sheet and cover letter sample, as well as links
to grantmakers.
http://www.oryxpress.com/miner.htm
The Oryx Press assists you in the beginning of the grants seeking
process. Their website offers three main steps to follow in successful
grant seeking. First, you must identify potential grant makers who would
be interested in supporting your project. You should use the entries in
this directory as a starting point to select those prospects with a high
probability of financing your needs. You can use one of the four indexes--Subject,
Sponsoring Organizations, Grants by Program Type, or Geographic--to locate
the appropriate grant(s) for you. This site offers examples of proposals
and also has a great search engine to assist you in your research process.
http://www.atozgrantwriting.com
A website created to provide grantwriting proposal products for non-profit
executive directors, board of directors, development officers and individuals
who want to learn an A to Z Grantwriting approach to successful grantwriting.
Their mission is to assist non-profit organizations and private individuals
in developing the capacity to raise vitally needed funds for their organizations
and special projects. This website is a link to purchase reasonably priced
products that teach you the ins and outs about receiving grants.
http://www.grantstech.com/tools.html
Grants Tech offers various tools for grantwriting such as articles,
listings of funding sources, and you will also find something called the
“cheat sheet”. This tool can be used as a part of the process for the
completion of your grant. It is an additional tool to maintain control
of the process as well as measure the quality of work for key sections.
The cheat sheet is different from the grid because it allows you to measure
the quality of key sections of the grant application.
http://www.writewinningproposals.com
Although this site offers a self-study course for a fee, if you look
under “freebies”, you will find a list of glossary terms of easy to understand
definitions, FAQ’S about everything everyone has ever wanted to know about
grants, a listing of proven time-tested insiders’ tips, and a free checklist.
Additionally, this site offers a newsletter that you can subscribe to,
free of cost.
http://www.cpb.org/grants/grantwriting.html
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting evaluates hundreds of proposals
each year for a variety of funding purposes. This publication is an easy
guide to the basic elements of grant writing and is offered to assist
applicants to CPB and to other funding sources. It offers guideposts to
help you through each stage of the process. These guideposts are transferable
to a variety of grant applications.
http://www.innonet.org/
InnoNet Grant Workstation This site allows you to choose from any
of 11 common grant applications used by Regional Associations of Grantmakers.
If you are not using a Common Grant Application, you can use the generic
grant application format and still create a completed grant application
online
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/grants/write.htm
Online Grantwriting Resources from Pacific Bell Knowledge Network
ExplorerOnce you locate a pool of potential grants, the real work begins.
The following resources will help you gain the background knowledge that
you need to write a good proposal.
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/gws_corp/corp.html
Alphabetical listing of links to web sites of company-sponsored private
foundations and direct corporate giving programs. The links provided take
you directly to the Web sites of company-sponsored private foundations
and direct corporate giving programs
http://www.grantproposal.com/inquiry.html
Many foundations ask potential grant recipients to submit inquiry
letters. This site tells you what you need to include when preparing such
letters, and provides some examples.
http://www.epa.gov/seahome/grants/src/mock/mock.htm
Here's a site where you can practice writing a grant proposal one
step at a time. In each step, an actual grant proposal example is provided
for you to compare against and find out how you are doing in the process.
Also, you will have the chance to go back and check the relevant information
needed on each step, as well as to review the important tips to help you
enhance your proposal writing.
http://www.tgci.com/publications/97winter/hardsoft.htm
Here you can find out how to use two different types of data in your
proposals -- hard data, which are usually in the form of statistics, and
soft data, which are often presented as quotes and anecdotes. Both types
of data are often used in successful proposals.
http://www.cof.org/links/memberindex.htm
Links to many major foundations, plus resources for grantmakers and
non-profits.
http://fdncenter.org/
The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse
that collects, organizes, analyzes, and disseminates information on foundations,
corporate giving, and related subjects
http://lnp.fdncenter.org/finder.html
Use the Foundation Finder to search by name for basic information
about foundations within the universe of more than 50,000 private and
community foundations in the U.S.
http://www.internet-prospector.org/found.html
Links to private funding opportunities, grants and sponsored research,
non-profits, and fundraising news in the U.S. Also contains links to international
private and government grants.
http://www.grantmatch.com/homepage.html-ssi
At this searchable site, grantseekers can list grant proposals or
donation requests by specific category, and grantmakers can list their
funding interests or create a request for proposal. The database also
contains basic information on Grantmakers, Grantseekers and Consultants.
http://www.tgci.com/
The nonprofit sector's leading source of training and funding information.
Also gives a listing of the federal register’s announcements on available
grants being offered.
http://fdncenter.org/onlib/orient/intro1.html
From the Foundation Center. An excellent overview including: approaches
to funding research, who gets foundation grants, what funders look for,
types of support given, hints on proposal writing, and lots more.
Guide by Christina
Wrieden
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