Creating Fundable Grant Proposals: Profiles of innovative partnerships by
Author de Farber, who has led the management of 187 awarded grant projects from under $5,000 to more than $1 million, draws from profiles of 57 grant proposals, sponsored by 31 funders including federal agencies, foundations, and library organizations, detailing her 10-step workflow to guide students through submitting and managing collaborative grant proposals. Students will learn about crucial components of a fundable project plan, collaboration, the fundamentals of crafting a grant proposal, how to recruit partners, ways to incorporate assets and supporting materials into the plan, what to do once notification is received.
Writing Successful Science Proposals by
How-to guide explaining every aspect of science proposal writing: conceiving and designing a project to analyzing data, synthesizing results, estimating a budget, addressing reviewer comments, and resubmitting. Addresses changes and developments over past decade, including identifying opportunities and navigating the challenging proposal-funding environment. Includes exercises to help readers develop grant proposals; it is designed for those in the physical, life, environmental, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as engineering.
Models of Proposal Planning and Writing by
For grant-seekers, this book documents how to write a proposal that will persuade a sponsor to invest in your projects and organization and explains why a properly persuasive application puts forth a seamless argument that stands the test of reason, addresses psychological concerns, and connects your project to the values of the sponsor. Provides process-steps of planning and writing persuasive proposals. Provides a detailed discussion of pre-proposal contacts that identifies the questions that help to qualify potential funding sources. Supplies comprehensive analyses of key features that made successful proposals persuasive, including verbatim reviewer comments and sponsor grant award notification letters. Includes model proposals covering a broader range of health, education, and social service topics; easy-to-read annotations; expanded information on budgets and budget narratives; and a logic model that can be adapted for project-planning purposes.