How to Write a Great Grant Proposal

This piece will show you how to write a great grant proposal, in no time!

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• time
• effort
• patience
• research skills
• common sense
• dedication
• motivation

1. Even before you begin to write your grant, you should find out how much funding you or your business need, when the funding is needed (if recurring funding is needed), and never forget to say what the money is needed for.

2. Before and during the writing of the proposal, it is very important that you should find out all there is to know about the organization that is offering the grant money, what their requirements are, how to they select and award grants, and the average amount time the grants are reviewed and granted or denied.

3. The grant proposal should be easy to read and contain absolutely no errors. Even the name of the granting organization should not be misspelled.

4. And, finally, when writing any grant plan, make sure to ask for money that will not only benefit yourself, but other people, as well. Most people make the mistake of asking money to please themselves, rather letting other people into the fold.

Tips & Warnings

• Seek a professional grant writer, or a very good amateur grant writer to write your grants for you, if you don't have the patience or time to write one yourself.
• Writing a grant can be somewhat stressful and long in wait, so be patient, since it will be months before you will hear the outcome of the proposal in question.

Resources

• Government Grants
• Grant Proposals

[ometrickc]

on 5/3/2009 the best part about this info is it can be used at anytime - recession or no.

[dazedaze]

on 5/3/2009 great info,

[sonni57]

on 4/11/2009 Good article on how to write a grant proposal.