Grants & Funding Resources: Fundraising Resources

Offers candid suggestions for applicants to Social Science Research Council competitions.

Explores how to involve an organization’s leadership in the grant seeking process, and how to work together with staff from public relations, programs, and even other fundraising areas, to make the grant proposal process more fruitful.

Shows how your nonprofit company can cultivate potential donors, utilize feasibility studies, train solicitors, obtain foundation grants, cut costs, and implement high-profile imaginative campaigns that top consultants use to get results.

Created for novice grant seekers who need instruction on how to begin the grants process, as well as for seasoned grant seekers who want to learn new techniques to save time and increase their success rate.

Presents the tools for precise, effective communication in various situations.

Beginning with material on the impetus to seek funds and ending with post-award responsibilities, it covers finding funders, effective proposal writing, budget development, submissions, reviewer responses, and award management.

Coverage includes the use of corporate and foundation support to diversify an organization's overall fundraising plan, current trends in giving and the effect of major societal and economic events, defining the right project, finding and approaching the right funders, organizing and writing an effective proposal, proposal review and follow-up after submission, and stewardship once the grant is awarded.

Teaches proposal writing from the perspective of trying to get the reader to think of the problem they are trying to solve and the project they are putting together to solve it.