Writing a Grant Proposal

I have never written a grant proposal before, so I’m kinda guestimating my way through. I found this site:

http://www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/writing.htm

The list the headers for the outline of proposals as the following:

- Summary
- Organizational Information
- Problem/Need/Situation Description
- Work Plan/Specific Activities
- Impact of Activities
- Evaluation
- Other Funding
- Future Funding
- Budget
- Supplementary Materials

I’m using this as the base for my proposal. Any thoughts? Feelings? Grand nuggets of wisdom?

by Brian C Frank at Sun Apr 27 02:15:38 UTC 2008 (ed. Apr 28 2008) Des Moines, ia, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

Jon Andersen has a great online tutorial on LS about writing grants that is pretty good.

I would also love to hear from people about what makes a successful grant application and if they could pinpoint what it is that they feel that they have written/photographed that is what gave them the edge.

How much do people think that its what you know or a culmination of doing a well publicized body of work? And how many people think it is more of a matter of connections and resumes (ie WPP winners get a lot of grants it seems to me!)

Would really love this to be one of those thoroughly informative LS threads of old.

Before the whole place got too stupid of course!

by lisa hogben | 27 Apr 2008 03:04 | sydney, Australia |

Lisa – do you know where that post is?

I found this:

http://www.lightstalkers.org/pitching-to-ngos

by Brian C Frank | 27 Apr 2008 04:04 (ed. Apr 27 2008) | Des Moines, ia, United States |

http://www.lightstalkers.org/grant-writing-101

by J-F Vergel | 27 Apr 2008 05:04 | nyc, ny, United States |

there is also this:
http://www.lightstalkers.org/grants-writing-guides

by J-F Vergel | 27 Apr 2008 05:04 | nyc, ny, United States |

Very cool. Thanks.