WRTG 31700: Proposal and Grant Writing

 Selected ebrary Books (full text online): 

• Grant Writing for Dummies (5th Edition)   
• 90 Days to Success in Grant Writing
• Grants and Funding : Government Guide to Grants
• Winning Grants Step by Step : The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing and Writing Successful Proposal
• Getting the Grant: How Educators Can Write Winning Proposals
• Successful Grant Writing : Strategies for Health and Human Service Professionals 
• Grant Money Through Collaborative Partnerships
• Fundraising Principles and Practice
• Fundraising with the Raiser's Edge : A Non-Technical Guide
• Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy : A Guide to Ethical Decision Making and Regulation for Nonprofit Organizations 
• "How To" Grants Manual : Successful Grantseeking Techniques for Obtaining Public and Private Grants
• Ethical Fundraising : A Guide for Nonprofit Boards and Fundraisers
• The Ask : How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture 

• An outstanding collection of online grant and fundraising resources from the New York State Library. Note: These are helpfully categorized and include national resources.

• On the homepage under "Find Open Grant Opportunities" note that you can open a "Browse Categories" tab.
• Or you can do keyword searching of available governemnt grants--and note the date range limit at the upper right.
• Some training videos are available.
• And note the "Applicant Resources."

• Also see  USA.gov for Nonprofits  
• Also see Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (and note that under Find Programs you can restrict your "Assistance Type" to "project grants."

• Database of grant opportunities searchable by keywords and categories

• Learn about Foundations and Fundraising  Once you get past the classroom seminars, most of the content is free here. See especially the online training courses and tutorials, which include a  Grantseeking Basics Training Video,  Introduction to Fundraising Planning, and Grantseeking Basics for Nonprofit Organizations.
• Proposal Writing Short Course
• Topical Resource List  This breaks down the grantseeking process and the types of grants into topical categories. Many of these connect you to biblographies of relevant books and articles, which you must then track down, but where online resources are relevant the links are provided.
• Philanthropy Classification System  The Foundation Center maintains a classification system that might prove useful. It helps clarify the population served, the organization type, and the Subject area, as well as support strategies. When clicking on any of these, be sure to wait for the "Hierarchy" at the bottom to fill in.
• 990 Finder  It could be useful to look at the 990 tax returns of nonprofit organizations similar to the one you wish to find grants for, where you will find their donors listed.
• Gain Knowledge  This section is worth exploring. See in particular the Special Topic Trends under Research, where you'll find many recent and free Foundation Center Publications.

• Most resources here must be purchased, but some features are free if you register (see Create Account button). Among the free features is an advanced search of 990 filings with a Keyword component so that in addition to searching specific organizations already known to you, you can enter terms likely to occur in the names of the types of organizations that interest you, limit the location by city and/or state, and retrieve all the nonprofit organizations with those words in their name.  After selecting one you must scroll down past the data available only to subscribers to reach the 990 forms for that organization.  Try to target organizations similar to your own and then check to see if and from whom they are receiving grant funding.

• As advertised, a suite of online tools. And be sure to check out their Links page for related resources.

• A variety of of helpful "how-to" tools and resources.

• The "Browse All Research" feature allows you to find relevant publications on contemporary philanthropy from this Indiana-Purdue school using both keywords and categories.

• The most relevant feature here is the Fundrasing Effectiveness Project, where you'll find an archive of the annual survey reports in this area.

• Gannett Newsstand Complete This database provides full text for the Ithaca Journal back to August 1999.
• The Ithaca Journal
• The Ithaca Times
• Also try running Subject searches on "Ithaca (N.Y.)" and/or "Tompkins County (N.Y.)" in the IC Library and the much larger holdings of local materials at the Cornell Libraries and the Tompkins County Public Library.

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• Fund Raising for the Performing Arts