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Writing Effective
Grant Proposals

Course Length

6 Weeks
24 Course Hrs

Cost

$135.00 USD

Writing Effective Grant
Proposals COURSE SUMMARY

Preparing successful grant proposals to receive funding from corporations or foundations requires careful research, meticulous preparation, and graceful writing. Grant administrators will often say that many grant requesters have a limited understanding of the proposal writing process, and as a result their worthy causes lose out.

If you learn how to avoid the errors that lead to the rejection of your proposal, you will be better prepared to help the causes you most admire. This course will walk you through all of the essential steps, including an important discussion of what you must do when the grant arrives.

In this course, you will learn how to become fully familiar with the institution or project for which you are requesting support. You will get valuable guidance in preparing a background statement and a brief financial statement to support your request. You will also research some charitable foundation and corporate giving sources.

Then, you will learn how to put everything together, so you can assemble, write, and submit complete grant proposals to foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals for any number of your pet projects.

Admission Requirements

There are no prerequisites to take this course.

Instructional Material Requirements

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Computer Requirements

  • PC: Windows 8 or later.
  • Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
  • Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
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  • The Writing Style You Will Need for Your Grant Proposal
  • Thinking About Your Institution the Way Grantors Do
  • Information You Will Need for Your Grant Proposal
  • Special Characteristics of Non-Profit Organizations
  • Finding Funding Sources—Foundations
  • Finding Out About Your Foundation Prospects
  • Finding Out About Your Corporate Prospects
  • Doing the Numbers
  • Assembling Your Proposal
  • So You Don't Get a Gift—What Now?
  • So You Get a Gift—What Now?
  • Some Thoughts About Writing Grant Proposals to Individuals
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Writing Effective Grant Proposals
Course Syllabus

There’s nothing magical about preparing a grant request, but in this lesson, you will learn some easy and fun tricks of trade that will help you with all sorts of writing projects, even those beyond grant proposals. Additionally, you will learn some special ways to practice these tricks.
People who work for causes that they believe in will often care about those causes in a very special and personal way. But grantors, who deal with literally thousands of institutions and causes, have a rather different way of thinking about them. In this lesson, you will put yourself in their shoes and learn how to effectively describe your own cause to anyone.
Now that you have tried on your grantor’s shoes, it’s time to talk about why those grantors look for certain kinds of information and documents. You will learn what these documents are, so you can dig them out and be ready to supply them when you prepare a grant request.
There are lots of interesting things to know about each individual nonprofit organization, but all nonprofits share one thing: They’re not in it to for the money. Generally, you can measure a good business by its bottom line—whether it makes money or not. But how do you measure the effectiveness of a nonprofit that needs money? In this lesson, you will start to look into it.
The hunt for funding sources is the eternal game of hide and seek that grant writers have to consider. How do you find sources that might be appropriate for you? This lesson will point you toward the most effective research tools available.
Once you find some foundations that you think might be a good fit for your cause, how do you choose among a field that might include hundreds? In this lesson, you will learn different ways to sift through these foundations, and in the course of this process, you may unearth sources you haven’t even considered.
You have looked at all the possible charitable foundations that fit your cause, but don’t stop there. What about the corporate world? Corporations have foundations, but they also have other ways of giving. This lesson focuses on packaging your projects for corporations.
Even if you’re a word person, you’ll need to learn another way to tell your story—by letting the numbers do the talking. The people who review your proposals will attach great importance to numbers, so you can’t get away with only describing a project with words. In this lesson, you will learn about preparing numbers effectively. It’s not hard to do, but it’s essential to the success of your proposal.
By the time you reach this lesson, you will have all the pieces you need for your proposal. Now it’s time to put them all together and add the finishing touches so you can finally put a complete proposal in the mail.
In the grant writing industry, you won’t win them all. But when you do get a turndown, there are positive alternatives to doom and gloom. The suggestions in this lesson will help you deal with those inevitable turndowns.
Okay, just as you hoped—you did get a gift. There’s an old saying in this business: Every gift paves the way to the next. This lesson will ensure you know just how to pave that road.
Now that you have all the elements you need for your proposal; can you also send it to an individual? Partially, yes. But you need to think about what would interest an individual and how you can best present your proposal to them; that’s what this final lesson covers.
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