Proposal Planning & Writing

No matter whether you are approaching public or private sponsors, this thorough and detailed step-by-step guide will enable you to plan and write winning proposals.

• Discusses resources to identify the tens of thousands of grantmakers that award more than $350 billion in philanthropic funds annually

• Provides a time-tested template to write proposals for private foundations and corporations, with samples to illustrate how the template can be used in different grant writing situations

• Features new examples of and strategies for increasing the overall quality and competitiveness of grant applications

• Addresses sponsors' increased attention to evaluation and their desire to move beyond counting participants and activities to measuring a project's impact

• Looks at different types of sustainability and interrelationships among grant proposal narratives, logic models, and budgets

• Offers new strategies for engineering and reverse engineering budgets to help maintain alignment between costs and activities and insulate against potential requests for budget reductions

Jeremy T. Miner, MA, is president of Miner and Associates. He is also director of grants and contracts in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

Kelly C. Ball, PhD, is institutional researcher at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay, Wisconsin. She regularly presents workshops on grantseeking and writing persuasive proposals.