November 27, 2003 | Read Time: 1 minute
Proposal Planning and Writing, Third Edition
by Lynn E. Miner and Jeremy T. Miner
This guide walks grant seekers through the process of finding and applying for grants.
Companies, foundations, and government agencies will give financial support when they are persuaded that a nonprofit group shares their values and cares about the same causes they do, write Lynn E. Miner, associate dean for external relations in the College of Engineering at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, and Jeremy T. Miner, director of government relations and sponsored programs at St. Norbert College, in De Pere, Wis. The book aims to help fund raisers identify which grant makers would most likely be receptive to their group’s mission and write proposals that demonstrate their project’s worthiness.
The authors provide advice on using print and online resources to compile a list of potential grant makers. To evaluate a proposal’s prospects, the authors suggest, fund raisers should contact program officers at grant-making organizations, as well as groups that have received grants and individuals who have served as proposal evaluators.
When they are ready to focus on the proposal itself, fund raisers may find it useful to quickly write a rough draft and then edit it carefully, suggest the authors. They offer advice on clarifying complicated sentences, eliminating grammatical mistakes, and formatting the finished product.
For this revised edition of their book, the authors have added information about budgets, program evaluations, and site visits, as well as a more-extensive list of grant makers’ Web sites.
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 88 Post Road West, Westport, Conn. 06881; (203) 226-3571; http://www.greenwood.com; 216 pages; $39.95; I.S.B.N. 1-57356-498-2.
