Grant Writing
The ability to win and manage grants is an important competency for leaders of nonprofit organizations. APPL can support member efforts to write proposals...
- by providing Internet links and research
- by offering guidance from APPL staff and members
Books and Videos from the APPL Resource Center
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Grant Writing
books and videos are available to APPL members from the APPL
Resource Center. Titles include:
- Winning Grants Step by Step, by Mim Carlson
- Grantwriting for the New Millennium, by recent convention speaker Cynthia Adams
- The Grantwriter's Start-Up Kit: a Beginner's Guide to Grant Proposals, a workbook and video set, by Successful Images, Inc.
A Sample of Internet Resources on Grant
Writing
about.com
This web site is like an online encyclopedia. The section on nonprofit organizations includes original articles as well as links to other resources. There is a lot of material here on grants proposal writing.
http://nonprofit.about.com/jobs/nonprofit/
Tips on Grant Proposal Writing
Here's a sample page from about.com, a short, full-text article by Stan Hutton on writing grants.
http://nonprofit.about.com/jobs/nonprofit/library/weekly/aa061798.htm
EPA Grant-Writing Tutorial
This interactive software tool walks you through the grant-writing process. You can download a zip file from their site and save it on your hard drive. The file is about 4.1 MB when uncompressed.
www.epa.gov/grtlakes/seahome/grants.html
The Foundation Center
Research foundations and other grantmakers online, or visit their libraries in Atlanta, Cleveland, New York, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C.
www.fdncenter.org/
The Grantsmanship Center
They provide workshops nationwide on writing grant proposals.
www.tgci.com
The APPL staff can help you get started with proposal writing, or match you with other members with similar interests. Call
Nancy Kotz at (301) 946-9475, or e-mail
nkotz@appl.org.
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