Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants

Set Up a Simple Office

Now that you've prepared yourself mentally, dispensed with the myths about grants, and learned about the steps involved in grant seeking, it's time to start building the staging area for your five-step cycle. In this chapter you'll learn to set up your office space.

Mostly what you'll be doing is making empty file folders that will be filled in as you work through the rest of this book. It's simple but not at all trivial work, because each element of the office space, including each file folder, physically reflects some important aspect of effective grant seeking. We'll explain the function and significance of each element ...