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Proposal Writing Skills: Transferable?

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Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Let’s say you’re an experienced development staffer, or a consultant , and you’ve been submitting grant proposals to support the organization’s mission—call it child care, or mental health counseling, or any other program focus. How far afield is the new field?

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Proposal Writing the SMART Way

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This is where the SMART approach comes into play to assist you with effective planning and embodying your vision of being realistic and adept at submitting the best possible and qualified proposal. Need some additional tips?

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New Year's Proposal Writers Resolutions

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking As the developer, writer and steward of funding proposals , you might consider approaching 2024 with new ideas and new energy for the task. It’s a wonderful/terrible tradition that we make resolutions at this time of year, so why not think about these for your proposal-writing list.

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De-Fog your Writing

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking The person reviewing your grant proposal is often someone who is not familiar with your organization , your community, or the problems your community is facing. Therefore, you want your proposal to be easy to comprehend on the first reading.

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A Classical Approach to Grant Proposals

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Before campaign advisors, spin doctors, influencers or ad men, there was the Greek philosopher, Aristotle. As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logic models, detailed methods and other granular stuff.

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Logic Models, in Plain English

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Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking There comes a time when a proposal needs to include a logic model. In proposals, you’re reassuring the funder that you’re not simply shooting an arrow, hitting something and calling it the target.

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Chop This Year’s Wood for Next Year’s Fire

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Category: Agency Management Proposal Writing and Grantseeking One of the inescapable truths about proposal writing and grants funding is the time it sometimes takes for a funder to make up its mind. Weeks, months – many months – can go by without a word. © Copyright 2023, The Grantsmanship Center Tags: planning