This book provides the user with a system for pre-determining the likelihood of grants success before investing time in proposal preparation. The exhibits, tables and figures keep new and veteran grantseekers focused on the process and on obtaining the critical information they need to decide whether to complete a proposal. The interactive exhibits that are downloadable provide the worksheets users needs to win grants
This book shows readers how and when to use the research they gather on prospective grantors to increase their chances of success. Instruction is provided on why and how to gather information on past grantees, scoring systems, and reviewers, and on how to make preproposal contact to dramatically increase success rates.
The deceptively simple techniques outlined in the exhibits, and the use of the project planner to present an orderly proposal in a timely manner, are worth the whole investment in the book.
Bauer does not start with how to write a grant, but rather how proposal development fits the grantseeker's career plan, and relates to the mission of his or her nonprofit, university, college, department or program. The emphasis on the book is not on money, but on creating a winning match between the grantor, the grantee, and his or her institution/organization.
The reader is provided with strategies and techniques to create strong teams, build productive consortia, and match grantseeking tasks to group member skills. This is particularly relevant now given grantors' growing interest in funding interdisciplinary and multiple site projects and research that uses grant monies more efficiently.
Those readers that teach or coach grantseeking will also find strategies in the book that are essential to creating success for others in the grants process.
As the hunt for grants gets more competitive and hectic, the need for a system that uses time effectively and provides organizational techniques and other strategies for increasing grants success rates, is critical. The step-by step process presented in the book plus the free downloadable worksheets make the purchase of this book a very cost-effective investment.

David G. Bauer is president of David G. Bauer Associates, Inc, a consulting firm providing educationally based grantseeking and fundraising seminars and coaching. Bauer has taught more than forty-seven thousand individuals the keys to grantseeking and fundraising, and has authored ten books on winning grants, administering grant programs, and grants coaching. Bauer has served as a national trainer for non-profits, a foundation director, and a research director and has directed several successful grants coaching programs based on the proactive step-by-step system in The How To Grants Manual.

Exhibits, Figures, and Tables

Introduction

Part 1: Getting Ready to Seek Grant Support for You and Your Organization

1. Grant Seeking Pitfalls and Potential Hazards
2. Your Plan for Grants Success and How to Get There
3. Creating a Success Based Proactive Grants System
4. Integrating Time Management into a Successful Grants Career
5. Searching the Literature to Document Your Project's Statement of Need: Creating and Urgent and Compelling Case
6. Developing and Evaluating Alternative Solutions
7. Creating Key Search Terms to Identify the Best Grantor(s): Redefining Your Project and Improving Your Research/Grants Profile
8. Capitalizing on Your Capabilities
9. Forming Grant-Winning Teams and Consortia: Recruiting Volunteers for Advisory Groups
10. Documenting Organizational Support for Your Proposal: Preproposal Approval
11. Where the Money Is: Selecting the Right Marketplace for Your Project

Part 2: Public/Government Funding Opportunities

12. Understanding the Government Grants Marketplace
13. Researching the Federal Government Marketplace
14. Completing Your Research and Contacting Government Grantors, Past Grantees, and Past Reviewers to Increase Your Success Rate
15. Planning the Successful Federal Proposal
16. Improving Your Federal Proposal: The Grants Quality Circle/Mock Review
17. Submission: What to Do and What Not to Do
18. Federal Grant Requirements
19. Dealing with the Decision of Public Funding Sources
20. Follow-Up with Government Funding Sources

Part 3: Private/Foundation Funding Opportunities

21. Understanding the Foundation Grants Marketplace
22. Researching Potential Private Foundation Grantors: How to Find the Foundation That Is Best Suited to Fund Your Project
23. Contacting a Private Foundation Before Submission
24. Applying for Private Foundation Funds: Letter of Inquiry and Letter Proposal
25. Quality Circles, Proposal Submission, the Decision, and Follow-Up: Private Foundation Funding Sources

Part 4: Private/Corporate Funding Opportunities

26. Understanding the Corporate Grants Marketplace
27. Researching Corporate Grantors: How to Find the Corporate Funding Source Best Suited to Fund Your Project
28. Preproposal Contact with Corporate Grantors
29. Applying for Corporate Funds
30. Corporate Proposal Submission, the Decision, and Follow-Up
31. Putting It All Together to Work for You

Index

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