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

Set Your Grant-Seeking Ground Rules

As your experience in grant seeking grows, you'll learn that the dynamics of your interactions with coworkers can have a big impact on the number and quality of grant proposals you send out. For example, you rely on your organization's program directors for information and reviews of your proposals; they rely on you to coordinate communications and visits with funders; meanwhile you all have other responsibilities that take up your time. Everyone involved will benefit from understanding what is expected of them and knowing how they'll be kept in the loop, especially as you start moving through the grant cycle ...