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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 12

Resuscitating Your Writing

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Making your words speak to funders

Bullet Incorporating real-life examples to capture attention

Bullet Spinning a spellbinding program design

Bullet Winning peer review points by writing to the criteria

The old-school style of grant writing was cut and dried; actually, it was boring! Page after page of term-paper paragraphs with few injections of case statements (stories about the target population in need) and not many eye-catching, easy-to-read sentences. However, when it comes to writing competitive grant applications today, most funders want brevity, real-life examples, and alignment between what they fund and your project in need of funding. Foundations and corporations are more receptive to this type of writing than government agencies. There are a lot of easy writing spin tips that can help you breeze through writing online e-grant applications, as well as paper funding submissions.

So, do you need an advanced degree in creative writing? No! Do you need to hire a spin master? Well, it might help to reduce your stress, but what you really need ...

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