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Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising
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Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising

by Cheryl A. Clarke
January 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
212 pages
5h 33m
English
Jossey-Bass
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WRITE THE SUMMARY AFTER THE PROPOSAL

As is true with the copy on a book jacket, the summary is written last, after you’ve finished the rest of the proposal narrative. I challenge anyone to write her proposal summary before she has written the full proposal itself. It’s impossible. A grantwriter must draft all the other sections of the narrative first, then prepare the summary. An author finishes a book before she or the publisher crafts the book jacket text. That copy is drawn from and based on what actually happens in the pages between the two covers. The same is true with a grant proposal.
When starting to draft a proposal, we may think we have all the information we’ll need to write a complete narrative. But inevitably, as we begin writing, ...
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