Book description
Demystifying Grantseeking is an inspirational and instructional guide to grantseeking. The authors--successful grantseekers in their own right--show you how to overcome the common fears fundraisers often experience and offer sound, practical advice to successful grantseeking. The book provides you with a systematic and logical way of searching for grants, and helps to identify which foundations to approach so fundraisers don't waste time on dead-end proposals.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES AND EXHIBITS
- DEDICATION
- FOREWORD
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR AND HOW TO USE IT
- Prologue: Get Inspired and Ready to Go
- step one: Learn About Your Organization, Community, and Funders
- step two: Match Your Request to a Funder
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step three: Invite a Funder to Invest in Your Organization
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Chapter 9: Invite a Funder to Give
- DECIDING ON YOUR INITIAL APPROACH
- MAKING AN INTRODUCTORY CALL
- What to Do if the Funder Says Yes
- What to Do if the Funder Says No
- How to End the Call
- ASSEMBLING A PROPOSAL OR LETTER OF INQUIRY
- Letters of Inquiry Versus Full Proposals
- Parts of a Grant Proposal
- EDITING THE PROPOSAL
- Your Colleagues' Review
- Your Own Review
- Another Review
- The Second Draft
- CONGRATULATIONS
- Chapter 10: Guide Relationships, Meetings, and Tours
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Chapter 9: Invite a Funder to Give
- step four: Follow Up with Your Organization and Your Funder
- step five: Evaluate Your Results, Methods, and Opportunities
- Epilogue: Get Inspired All Over Again
- NOTES
- RESOURCE A: HANDS-ON FORMS FOR GRANT SEEKERS
- RESOURCE B: COMPLETE SAMPLE GRANT PROPOSAL
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2001
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780787956509
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