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Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition
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Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Beverly A. Browning
March 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
9h 16m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 10

Finding Federal Grant Opportunities That Fit Your Needs

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Recognizing red flags in NOFAs

Bullet Writing to meet the peer reviewers’ expectations

Bullet Convincing other agencies to take a stakeholder’s seat in your grant application

Most grantwriters start their grantwriting endeavors by writing proposals for foundation and corporate grants. This is definitely the easier route for most grantwriters, new or veteran. However, sooner or later you’ll need to start exploring bigger pots of money. These bigger pots are typically found in grantfunding opportunities at the federal level, which means you need to get comfortable reading federal grant application guidelines. This includes reading every word in a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA), searching for and highlighting the technical requirements for your grant application, and asking the right crew of potential partners to support your grant applications submission.

All federal funding agencies publish guidelines that spell out the type of grant or cooperative agreement application that they expect grant applicants to submit (called the NOFA language). The guidelines and the review points assigned to each section of ...

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