Grants
What is a grant?
A grant is simply an amount of funding that one organization, group, or agency awards another upon submission of a persuasive proposal requesting this support. The grant may be short-term or long-term, and can be collective summation of more than one source. An application for a grant is generally known as a proposal, a document that goes through as many as ten rounds of revision and editing before it's submitted to funder.
Who writes grants?
While the editing process may involve many levels of staff within a non-profit organization, a grant-writer usually drafts the first edition, and is responsible for the content to be revised.
When to write a grant?
Although every grant is different, many private, corporate and federal funding agencies will issue guidelines for a proposal a few months before its deadline. Certain grants, however, tend to be made available around the same time each year, and seasoned writers learn to look out for these opportunities for their organizations.
What kinds of grants are there?
A grant is simply an amount of funding that one organization, group, or agency awards another upon submission of a persuasive proposal requesting this support. The grant may be short-term or long-term, and can be collective summation of more than one source. An application for a grant is generally known as a proposal, a document that goes through as many as ten rounds of revision and editing before it's submitted to funder.
Who writes grants?
While the editing process may involve many levels of staff within a non-profit organization, a grant-writer usually drafts the first edition, and is responsible for the content to be revised.
When to write a grant?
Although every grant is different, many private, corporate and federal funding agencies will issue guidelines for a proposal a few months before its deadline. Certain grants, however, tend to be made available around the same time each year, and seasoned writers learn to look out for these opportunities for their organizations.
What kinds of grants are there?
- Supporting an ongoing need
- Meeting an emergency need
- Funding a new program or initiative
- Donors
- Legislators (can be state or federal)
- Customers
- Businesses that can profit from your services