The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants: Step-by-Step Instructions With Companion CD-ROM [Paperback]

Dianne Harris (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2008

Every day federal, state, and local government as well as other organizations including corporations and foundations give out more than a MILLION DOLLARS IN FREE GRANT MONEY. A grant is essentially a gift. It goes to an organization, municipality, business, or individual to enable them to continue conducting their activities or research. You or your organization may be eligible for millions of dollars in free grant money. Grant money does not have to be returned or paid back. Unfortunately, many grants are not awarded because of improper filing procedures, and or poorly written proposals, and so literally millions of dollars go unclaimed every year.

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As a Proposal Writer for a non-profit organization, I m called upon to write grants to private foundations, local, state, and federal governments. I keep The Complete Guide to Writing Effective and Award Winning Grants on my desk and turn to it often. The competition for grants is fierce. I need all the tools I can get to win more funding for my agency and this book is one of the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched books on grant writing available today. The step-by-step instructions take you through the grant application process from beginning to end. Whether you are a beginning grant writer or a seasoned professional, you will turn to this book again and again for new tips and tricks along with time-tested methods you need to win sizable grant awards for your organization. --Christopher A. Howell Resource Development Specialist Center for Independent Living in Central Florida, Inc.

The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants: Step-by-Step Instructions With Companion CD-ROM takes the mystery out of grant writing. This is a powerful, must have resource for new grant developers. The book contains solid information, useable hints, and practical case studies. The sample forms in the companion CD are invaluable. The blueprint for your grant writing success is in this book; all you have to do is follow it. --Ann Ronan, Ph.D. California State Representative, American Association of Grant Professionals Principal, GrantRight.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company (FL) (February 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601380461
• ISBN-13: 978-1601380463
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Looking for free money? Here's how to get it., April 14, 2008

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Stephanie Fox (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants: Step-by-Step Instructions With Companion CD-ROM (Paperback)

The universe is filled with people with good ideas - ideas that could change the world, or at least a small portion of the world - if there was only a way to get the money to make them real. In fact, there is grant money out there for almost every noble idea, but most people who could quality for grant funding fail to get it, finding themselves overwhelmed by an intimidating and confusing process.

I personally know dozens of people - artists and writers, college bound students, inventors, small-business owners, home buyers and others whose lives would be improved if they could just find the money to fund their ideas.

For all those people, I highly recommend The Complete Guide to Writing Effective &Award-Winning Grants. They should keep it by on their desks .as their number-one resource for helping them get the funding they need to make their brilliant notions real.

This manual gives step-by-step information and includes everything anyone might need to know when they are looking for grant funding. From finding available grant programs, to knowing what grant funders want to know from you, to setting up a presentation - the directions are clear and concise and the information is comprehensive. This is a tool anyone even considering applying for grant funding should find extremely helpful. Everything is here between the pages, within easy reach, a tour guide to every stage of the grant writing process. There are even examples of winning grant proposals to help grant writers better understand what works and what does not.

The book covers grant writing for artists, teachers and students as well as helping find and win grant money for small business, historic homes, buying or fixing-up houses, even grants for research, charitable causes, volunteers and more. The guide can also steer you to sources of available grant money, both public and private. It gives guides to networking with the people who hold the purse strings and even explains how to target your search for grant money for the greatest chance of success.

Author Dianne Harris learned grant writing through trial and error. You can learn from her mistakes and her successes and write successful grants without the pain. While this book won't make grant writing easy - nothing can do that - it will make your grant writing more effective, helping you through the process to a successful conclusion. Even if you have written grants in the past, if you follow the advice given, you should find yourself more confident and more successful in this endeavor.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Millions of dollars in grant money floats around today waiting to be claimed., May 4, 2008

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This review is from: The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award-Winning Grants: Step-by-Step Instructions With Companion CD-ROM (Paperback)

Millions of dollars in grant money floats around today waiting to be claimed. "The Complete Guide: To Writing Effective & Award Winning Grants" seeks to help you lay claim to some of that money, a gift to help your organization, whatever it may be, flourish and succeed. To get that money is not an easy process, and "The Complete Guide: To Writing Effective & Award Winning Grants" will help you write the effective proposal you need to get a hold of the thousands of dollars you also need. Highly recommended to small businesses, researchers, or anyone who may need to write a grant proposal, and should have a place on all money/business community library shelves. Comes with a companion CD-Rom.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is it!, April 30, 2008

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***** 5 out of 5


As an aspiring grant writer, this book will become my bible. The author does a great job of not only covering the mechanics of grant writing but also gives a brilliant overview of what kinds of organizations might need an outsourced grant writer, and the hurdles both that organization and their selected grant writer might face.

I now understand that as a freelance grant writer, I should expect to manage my client as well as my work process. It had not occurred to me that before I accept any project, I should examine the viability of the organization preparing to apply for the grant. Just as organizations perform their due diligence in selecting a grant writer, the grant writer must also perform due diligence to determine the feasibility of both the hiring organization and the project in question. These are lessons far too painful to learn in the professional realm and this book will assure me that I don't have to suffer this learning curve.

The step by step instructions in the second half of the book read like a recipe. They are simple, straightforward, and easy to follow. Mixed in are good "tips" to remember and abide that help the grant writer stay focused on the task at hand. Now that I have completed the book, I have the confidence to undertake grant writing professionally. Even if I get stymied, this book covers almost any contingency imaginable. I am sold on Dianne Harris' book.