Winning library grants a game plan

Here's a practical and comprehensive manual that guides you through grant fundamentals. The author's game plan will help you find relevant funders by analyzing eligibility criteria, write and prepare grant applications, and increase your chances for success by using additional tactics, suc...

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Main Author: Landau, Herbert B. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Chicago : American Library Association, 2010.
Series: Professional Development Collection.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Grantsmanship fundamentals, definitions, and rules
  • Preproposal market analysis and planning
  • Finding grants and granting organizations relevant to libraries
  • Initiating contact with grantors
  • Obtaining solicited competitive grant application packages
  • Preproposal research and fact finding
  • Proposal management and project planning
  • Proposal writing style
  • Proposal writing section by section
  • Proposal assembly, editing, review, and submission
  • Postproposal preaward marketing
  • Contract award and project management
  • Writing a request for proposal
  • Conclusion : why become a grantsman (or -woman)?