The following books and CDs are held for your review in the Office of Sponsored Research.
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Grant Seeker’s Budget Toolkit - A key aspect of any successful grant application initiative is budgeting and financial planning. A well-crafted budget, clearly delineating when, where, and how grant monies will be applied, goes a long way toward selling a grantor on an applicant’s vision. Unfortunately, many nonprofit professionals lack the know-how required to create budgets that instill grantors with confidence. This book fills that much-needed gap. Authors James Aaron Quick and Cheryl Carter New walk you through the entire budgeting process, providing invaluable insider tips, guidelines, and rules of thumb. More importantly, they provide you with indispensable guidance including a complete, step-by-step budgeting system, with each step fully documented and accompanied by an arsenal of powerful tools, plus much more to help you transform your organization’s vision and mission into reality.
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Guide to Winning Proposals – The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals features 20 complete grant proposals that have been funded by some of today’s most influential grantmakers. Learn how to create your own proposals based on this selection of funded proposals for single and multiyear grants. The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals offers extraordinary insight into what makes some proposals more sucessful than others by including candid commentary from the program officer or other funding decision-maker who awarded each grant. These critiques point to the strenghts (and weaknesses) of each proposal, providing important perspectives for new and experienced grant writers alike.
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Winning Grants Step By Step – Winning Grants Step by Step is the definitive guide to writing persuasive and successful proposals. In easy-to-understand terms, Mim Carlson leads you through creating a proposal—from start to finish—that fulfills the three most important criteria grantmakers demand from a competitive proposal: a clearly stated purpose describing what your organization is trying to achieve, compelling evidence that demonstrates the importance of this goal, and a well-reasoned plan that outlines how your organization will meet the goal in a cost-effective manner. Once you have completed the workbook exercises, you will have a fully developed grant proposal for your organization.
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Models of Proposal Planning & Writing – This book illustrates, in intimate detail previously unpublished, an integrated process of planning and writing persuasive proposals. The grantseekers will see the questions that the authors asked of themselves and those asked of sponsors before they developed a complete grant application. Grantseekers will read the actual proposals the authors submitted to private and public sponsors, including paragraph-by-paragraph analyses of the key features that made them persuasive. The authors provide an examination of the verbatim reviewer comments and grant award notification letters they received back from the sponsors. As a whole, these annotated models serve as a springboard from which grantseekers can begin to develop their own fundable proposals. Authors: Jeremy T. Miner and Lynn E. Miner
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Writing Successful Science Proposals – Writing a successful science proposal can seem intimidating and even baffling. What makes one proposal stand out from the tens of thousands that are submitted each year to government agencies, private corporations and foundations, and academic committees? This authoritative and readable book explains every aspect of proposal writing, from conceiving and designing a project to analyzing data, synthesizing results, and estimating a budget. It is a step-by-step guide to writing an effective and competitive scientific proposal. Authors: Andrew J. Friedland and Carol L. Folt