from the author of
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing

Welcome

With more than 20 years experience in fundraising and nonprofit management, I am well prepared to assist your charity in increasing grant income. For largely volunteer groups, seminars in the basics of fundraising, research, and grant writing will prepare a number of people to go out and raise more money.

For small nonprofits, an audit of your fundraising materials (including brochures and newsletters, as well as grant proposals and supporting materials), will help you make sure your staff has all it needs to get the job done right.

Use the links at the top to learn more about me, or explore the free resources with the links to the right. Read my latest grant writing tips on my Grant Writing Blog.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grant Writing, 2nd Edition

The second edition of my book on grant writing was published by Alpha Books in January 2007. More than 45,000 copies have been sold. In it I provide a personal perspective on each funding source (foundations, corporations, government agencies, and even individuals) and explain how to do the research that will give you the best chance of getting a grant, with, of course, a complete description of how to write one.

The final chapter summarizes the entire book, providing a quick "how to" for anyone under pressure to write their first grant in a hurry. The CD enclosed with the book contains examples of real grant proposals and a worksheet to use in developing a budget to use in a proposal.

For the second edition, I added a new chapter just for individuals seeking grants, who must submit somewhat different materials in support of a proposal and who have some special research options available.

The CD-ROM has a new Proposal Builder Tool for both project and operating support grants. The Proposal Builder poses a series of questions as a way to walk you through writing a narrative. When your answers are put together at the end, you have the first draft of your narrative complete!

Many new Internet resources have been updated and added. GrantStation.com offers a free trial membership to readers of my book via a special link on the CD-ROM.

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