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Grantseeking in an Electronic Age
Victoria Mikelonis, Signe Betsinger, and Constance Kampf
445 pages, paperback
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Longman
Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication
Series Editor: Sam Dragga
ISBN: 0-321-16007-X

Writing persuasive proposals is more of an art than a science. The processes and procedures you will learn in this book are heuristics, based on tested rhetorical principles, to help you work through the grant seeking process in a systematic way. The process itself is transferable to most of the proposals that you will write—from $5,000 for a summer research project to $500,000 for establishing a Crisis Nursery in your county—so as you practice it, you will become more proficient, learn new skills, and eventually, change the way you think about grant seeking and proposal writing.

Proposal writing, which is itself an iterative and recursive process, is part of the larger process of grant seeking. Grant seeking often begins with a problem that someone, generally a sponsor, wants to solve for the benefit of a specific group of people. The proposals you write are your solutions to these problems. The kinds of problems you attempt to solve and the people who will benefit from those solutions should reflect the mission, goals, and target audiences of your organization, as well as the mission, goals, and target audiences of the sponsoring organization. Grant Seeking in an Electronic Age explains this process, and offers annotated examples and exercises designed to help you both understand and apply the process effectively.

Grant Seeking in an Electronic Age is designed for three major audiences:

  1. academics and graduate students who are seeking funding for their own research projects,
  2. professionals working in nonprofit organizations who survive on external funding, and
  3. K-12 teachers and administrators who are seeking additional funding for their schools.

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