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Grant writing for dummies / by Dr. Beverly A. Browning, MPA, DBA.

Browning, Beverly A., 1948- (author.).

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Browning gives you everything you need to get started with your grant application. She helps you move through the grant-writing process and apply for some of the billions of dollars available from public and private sector sources. From creating a strategic plan to using online databased and applying for e-grants, you'll learn new ways to get the funding you need.

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ISBN: 9781119868071
ISBN: 1119868076
Physical Description: xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: Seventh edition.
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

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General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. 1. Getting started with grant writing -- pt. 2. Researching grantfunding opportunities -- pt. 3. Maximizing your chances of winning a grant award -- pt. 4. Following the funder's guidelines -- pt. 5. Triple-checking your application, submitting, and following up -- pt. 6. The part of tens.

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Grant Writing for Dummies

Grant Writing for Dummies

by Browning, Beverly A.

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Grant Writing for Dummies

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction	p. 1
	About This Book	p. 1
	What's New in This Edition	p. 2
	Foolish Assumptions	p. 2
	Icons Used in This Book	p. 3
	Beyond the Book	p. 3
	Where to Go from Here	p. 3
Part 1	Getting Started with Everything Grants	p. 5
Chapter 1	Grantwriting Basics for Beginners	p. 7
	Orienting Yourself on Grantseeking Basics	p. 7
	Learning common grantwriting terminology	p. 8
	Checking out different types of grants	p. 9
	Understanding your eligibility for grants	p. 11
	Recognizing the Purpose of a Funding Development Plan	p. 12
	Connecting to Public-Sector Grantmaking Agencies	p. 13
	Federal funding: Raiding Uncle Sam's stash	p. 14
	State and local government funding: Seeking public dollars closer to home	p. 14
	Researching Private-Sector Grants	p. 15
	Identifying foundations that award grants	p. 15
	Finding corporations that award grants and in-kind donations	p. 16
	Getting Acquainted with Grant Submission Requirements	p. 16
	Looking at the components of a grant application	p. 17
	Perusing government grant application guidelines	p. 18
	Getting your request in the door at foundations and corporations	p. 18
	Making a List and Checking It Twice	p. 20
	Tracking Your Submission Status	p. 20
	Jumping for Joy or Starting All Over?	p. 21
Chapter 2	Preparing for Successful Grantseeking	p. 23
	Grantseeking Readiness Priorities for Nonprofits	p. 23
	Before you apply for grant funding (the pre-award phase)	p. 24
	After you receive your first grant award (the post-award phase)	p. 26
	Procedures required for grant award risk management	p. 26
	Building your governing board's capacity	p. 26
	Assessing your nonprofit organization's capacity to seek grants	p. 27
	Creating a Grantfunding Plan	p. 28
	Looking at the funding plan components	p. 28
	Updating critical funding plan information	p. 31
	Increasing Your Chances for Grantseeking Success	p. 32
	Looking for needles in a haystack	p. 32
	Talking to potential funders	p. 35
	Using a letter of inquiry or intent to comply with pre-application guidelines	p. 36
	Using a letter of intent	p. 39
	Waiting Patiently for Next Steps	p. 39
Chapter 3	Understanding Grantmaking Entities Expectations	p. 41
	Delivering the Information Funders Ask For	p. 41
	Providing the facts about your organization	p. 42
	Writing about the project in need of funding	p. 45
	Storytelling with facts	p. 47
	Making Sure You Have the Mandatory Attachments Before You Start Writing	p. 52
Pat 2	Researching Grantfunding Opportunities	p. 55
Chapter 4	Venturing into Public-Sector Grants	p. 57
	Looking for Local Funding First	p. 57
	Finding out where the money is in your state or territory	p. 59
	Looking for pass-through funding	p. 60
	Analyzing the Types of Federal Funding Available	p. 60
	Discovering direct grants	p. 61
	Using the eligible applicant criteria to track the funding stream	p. 63
	Knowing the difference between competitive and formula grants	p. 64
	Learning your way around Grants.gov	p. 64
	Understanding forecasted funding announcements	p. 66
	Enlisting Political Advocates	p. 67
Chapter 5	Navigating the Federal Grant Submission Portals	p. 71
	Navigating the Grants.gov Website	p. 72
	Understanding Grant Applicant Eligibility	p. 73
	Registering on Grants.gov	p. 74
	Registering as an organization	p. 74
	Grants.gov variations for individual applicants	p. 76
	Viewing Tutorials in the Grants.gov Workspace	p. 76
	Accessing Application Package Instructions	p. 77
	Reviewing Some of the Mandatory Government Grant Application Forms	p. 79
	Budget information forms	p. 80
	Assurances forms	p. 80
	Disclosure of lobbying activity form: SF-LLL	p. 81
Chapter 6	Researching Potential Private-Sector Funders	p. 83
	Finding Foundations and Corporations with Grantmaking Programs	p. 84
	Understanding the time and effort required	p. 84
	Subscribing to helpful funding alert resources	p. 85
	Scouring GuideStar for Foundation Funders	p. 86
	What to Look for in a Foundation's Form-990	p. 87
	Weighing the Usefulness of Free versus Paid Grant Research Websites	p. 89
	Using Candid's online grant-research database	p. 89
	Paid online subscriptions	p. 90
	Using other online grant-research databases	p. 91
	Scoring a Match to the Funder's Grantmaking Criteria	p. 92
	Knowing Whom to Contact First	p. 94
Chapter 7	Finding Legitimate Grants for Individuals and Businesses	p. 97
	Sorting Through Who Awards Grants to Individuals and for What Purposes	p. 98
	Locating Credible Grants for Your Startup Business	p. 99
	Competing against others for coveted startup funding	p. 100
	Reviewing research grants from Uncle Sam to fund your work	p. 101
	Digging for Business-Expansion Monies	p. 104
	Circling back to research and development funding opportunities	p. 104
	Tracking down other business-expansion funding opportunities	p. 105
Chapter 8	Finding Grants for Academia and Fellowships	p. 107
	Reviewing Terminology That You Need to Know	p. 108
	Finding Sponsored Program Grants	p. 109
	Federal agencies	p. 109
	Major corporations funding sponsored programs	p. 111
	Foundations funding sponsored programs	p. 111
	Accessing sponsored program funding databases	p. 112
	Finding fellowship funding opportunities	p. 113
Chapter 9	Identifying Funds for Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)	p. 115
	Acquiring NGO Status	p. 116
	Finding NGOs-Related Funding Sources	p. 116
	The U.S. government	p. 117
	The European Foundation Centre	p. 118
	Imagine Canada	p. 118
	Knowing What Non-U.S. Funders Expect	p. 119
	Adapting to submission differences	p. 119
	Preparing a non-U.S. dollar budget	p. 120
Part 3	Maximizing Your Chances of Winning a Grant Award	p. 121
Chapter 10	Finding Federal Grant Opportunities That Fit Your Needs	p. 123
	Dissecting the Notice of Funding Availability (Over and Over Again)	p. 124
	Figuring out who can apply	p. 125
	Using a checklist to determine whether you should apply for a grant	p. 127
	Scanning for standard terms	p. 130
	Scrutinizing the Review Criteria	p. 134
	Finding the Right Collaborators	p. 134
	Identifying the right leveraging and implementation partners	p. 134
	Getting in-kind and cash commitments from partners	p. 137
Chapter 11	Winning with Peer Review Scoring Factors	p. 139
	Complying with the Technical Review Requirements	p. 140
	Understanding the Importance of the Peer Review Process	p. 142
	Knowing how much to write in your narrative sections	p. 142
	Deploying analyzation acumen to meet the scoring process	p. 144
	Writing to the Peer Review Requirements	p. 145
	Researching, writing, and validating a compelling statement of need	p. 146
	Incorporating national models in your program implementation strategies	p. 147
	Demonstrating accountability with an evaluation plan	p. 147
	Proving your organization's capability to manage a grant-funded project	p. 148
	Developing an expense-driven budget	p. 149
	Validating Needs and Implementation Strategies	p. 150
	Considering the Use of Third-Party Evaluators	p. 152
	Getting Invited to Join a Peer Review Team	p. 153
Chapter 12	Resuscitating Your Writing	p. 155
	Putting a Heartbeat in Your Writing	p. 156
	Step 1: Describing specifics about who, what, and where	p. 156
	Step 2: Presenting the need with validation	p. 157
	Step 3: Incorporating a case study	p. 160
	Racking Up Peer Review Points in the Program Design	p. 161
	Starting with the purpose of this request statement	p. 161
	Aligning your goals and SMART objectives with the purpose of the funding	p. 162
	Closing the deal by showing the long-term impact of the funder's investment	p. 164
Part 4	Following the Funder's Guidelines	p. 167
Chapter 13	Preparing Preliminary Documents	p. 169
	Complying with Mandatory Application Package Requirements	p. 170
	Drafting a Cover Letter (If Requested)	p. 170
	Shuffling Through Funder Information Requests	p. 173
	Knowing What the Feds Want in a Form (SF-424)	p. 174
	Saving the Abstract or Executive Summary Narrative for Last	p. 178
	Crafting the Table of Contents When Required	p. 180
Chapter 14	Developing the Organizational History and Capability Boilerplate Narrative	p. 183
	Adhering to the Funder's Guidelines	p. 184
	Creating Organizational Capabilities as a Grant Applicant	p. 185
	Stating the history, mission, values, and geographic logistics	p. 186
	Presenting key milestones in organizational development	p. 187
	Shifting gears for government grants	p. 188
	Sorting Out Relevant Programs and Activities	p. 189
	Presenting and Validating Your Target Population for Services	p. 191
	Including High Stakes Partners to Boost Your Credibility	p. 192
Chapter 15	Validating Your Needs with a Compelling Narrative	p. 197
	Convincing Funders of Your Need	p. 198
	Researching recent and relevant information	p. 198
	Incorporating real-life information about your target population	p. 200
	Building a strong case study	p. 201
	Using Graphics When Allowed by the Funder	p. 205
	Understanding when and how to use informative graphics	p. 205
	Dressing up your narrative text when allowed	p. 207
Chapter 16	Incorporating Best Practices to Build the Program Design Narrative	p. 209
	Reviewing the Components of a Good Program Design Section	p. 210
	Starting with a Purpose Statement	p. 211
	Plotting Goals and SMART Objectives	p. 211
	Understanding the difference between types of goals and objectives	p. 212
	Following the funder's directions to write the right types of goals	p. 213
	Recognizing and writing types of objectives requested by funders	p. 215
	Providing a Comprehensive Implementation Plan	p. 218
	Confirming Narrative Content Connectivity in Your Logic Model	p. 220
	Writing the Evaluation Plan for Your Program Design	p. 223
	Making sense of evaluation plan terminology	p. 224
	Keeping the evaluation process in-house	p. 227
	Taking the third-party evaluation route	p. 228
	Writing the evaluation plan	p. 229
Chapter 17	Preparing Project Management Plans and Sustainability Narratives	p. 231
	Presenting the Project Management Team's Credentials	p. 232
	Articulating Qualifications	p. 234
	The basic profile	p. 235
	The profile with page limitations	p. 236
	The profile for personnel paid by cash match	p. 238
	Connecting Accountability and Responsibility to the Implementation Process	p. 238
	Writing the management plan	p. 239
	Acknowledging your fiscal responsibility	p. 240
	Offering Up Cash and In-Kind Leveraging Resources for Matching Funds	p. 241
	Demonstrating Federal Compliance in the Personnel Selection	p. 242
	Writing the Sustainability Statement	p. 244
	Using the board's sustainability plan	p. 244
	Crafting a sustainability statement	p. 245
Chapter 18	Creating a Budget That Includes All the Funding You Need	p. 247
	Understanding Budget Section Basics	p. 248
	Personnel	p. 249
	Travel	p. 251
	Equipment	p. 253
	Supplies	p. 254
	Contractual	p. 255
	Construction	p. 256
	Other	p. 256
	Distinguishing between direct and indirect costs	p. 257
	Entire budget summary	p. 259
	Digging Up Matching Funds	p. 261
	In-kind contributions (soft cash match)	p. 261
	Cash match (money on hand allocated for cash-matching funds)	p. 262
	Plotting Ethical Expenses	p. 264
	Gathering accurate cost figures	p. 264
	Including all possible program income	p. 264
	Managing expenditures to the penny	p. 265
	Projecting Multiyear Expenses for Grant-Funded Programs	p. 266
	Building Credibility When You're a New Nonprofit	p. 267
Part 5	Triple-Checking Your Application, Submitting, and Following Up	p. 269
Chapter 19	Checking Off the Mandatory Requirements for Compliance	p. 271
	Triple-Checking All Required Components	p. 272
	Cover materials	p. 272
	Organization history and capability	p. 273
	Statement of need	p. 274
	Program design	p. 274
	Evaluation and dissemination	p. 275
	Management plan, assets, and your equity statement	p. 276
	Sustainability plan	p. 276
	Budget summary and narrative detail	p. 277
	Avoiding Editing Red Flags	p. 277
	Assembling the Proper Attachments in the Right Order	p. 280
	Capability-related documents	p. 280
	Financial documents	p. 281
	Supporting documentation	p. 282
	Meeting Submission Requirements	p. 282
	Paying attention to submission protocol	p. 283
	Uploading applications on time	p. 283
	Clicking Submit without panicking	p. 284
Chapter 20	Knowing What to Do after Submitting Your Application	p. 287
	Keeping Accessible Copies of Electronic Files	p. 287
	Staying Connected to Your Stakeholders	p. 288
	Providing updates on what's been completed and what to expect next	p. 289
	Keeping your partners in the information loop	p. 290
	Tracking the Status of Your Submitted Application	p. 290
	Requesting that elected officials track your application's progress	p. 291
	Following up on foundation and corporate grant requests	p. 293
Chapter 21	Winning or Losing: What's Next?	p. 297
	Handling Funding Status Communications from Grantmakers	p. 297
	Drafting a resolution	p. 298
	Accepting the award	p. 298
	Tackling the grant-management process	p. 299
	Reviewing post-award guidelines for help with financial reporting	p. 301
	Handling Multiple Grant Awards	p. 302
	Failing to Get a Grant Award	p. 303
	Requesting peer review comments when your government application is rejected	p. 303
	Acting fast to reuse a failed government request	p. 305
	Dealing with failed foundation or corporate funding requests	p. 306
Chapter 22	Requesting Matching Funds and Other Goodies from Corporate Grantmakers	p. 307
	Recognizing What Corporations and Local Businesses Are Willing to Fund	p. 308
	Making Initial Contact and Building a Relationship with Corporate Funders	p. 309
	Building Relationships with Major Corporations and Business Funders	p. 309
	Writing a Corporate Letter Request/Letter Proposal	p. 311
	Following Up with Potential Corporate Funders	p. 316
Part 6	The Part of Tens	p. 317
Chapter 23	Ten e-Grant Tips	p. 319
	Log In and Set Up a Password Immediately for Online Submissions	p. 319
	Fill in Routine Organizational Information	p. 320
	Review the Entire Online Application Template	p. 320
	Copy and Re-Create the Template in a Word-Processing Program	p. 321
	Adhere to Writing Limitations in Online Grant e-Portals	p. 321
	Convey without Traditional Graphics	p. 322
	Convey without Traditional Formatting	p. 322
	Recheck the Funder's Website Daily for Modifications to the Guidelines	p. 322
	Confirm the Due Date Time and Time Zone	p. 323
	Hit Submit	p. 323
Chapter 24	Ten Steps to Making Grant Writing Your Career	p. 325
	Get Trained	p. 325
	Research the Salary Ranges for Grantwriters	p. 326
	Determine the Fees for Your Services as a Consultant	p. 327
	Stay Updated on Grant Industry Trends	p. 327
	Join a Professional Association and Get Certified	p. 328
	Continue to Hone Your Research and Writing Skills	p. 328
	Ask to Join a Grantwriting Team	p. 328
	Get a Consulting Coach	p. 329
	Use Updated Technology	p. 329
	Network Like a Pro	p. 329
Chapter 25	Ten Ways to Continue Being Viewed as a Grant Professional	p. 331
	Take on New Challenges	p. 331
	Volunteer Your Services	p. 332
	Become a Grant Research Specialist	p. 332
	Become a Peer Reviewer	p. 332
	Do Copyediting for Other Grantwriters	p. 333
	Work with an Experienced Grantwriter	p. 333
	Attend National Professional Development Training	p. 333
	Review Successful Grant Applications Online	p. 334
	Write and Publish Articles That Require Extensive Research	p. 334
	Continue Your Formal Education	p. 334
	Index	p. 335

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