PREFACE
Storytelling is a powerful art form. Stories entertain, educate, and enlighten. They have the ability to transport an audience to another location and teach them about issues and people they may know nothing about. The same is true of grantwriting.
 
Yet many nonprofit and development professionals, both newcomers to the field and those with years of experience, contemplate the task of writing a grant proposal with as much enthusiasm as they would taking a trip to the dentist for a root canal. Those who are new to the field are likely to approach grantwriting with a “deer in the headlights” stare. The process seems daunting, intimidating, frightening. Those who have been in the nonprofit sector for a long time too often grudgingly ...

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