TOOLS AND TRAINING

A List of Grant Seekers' Favorite Resources

Consult the following resources to help improve grant-proposal writing skills:

CharityChannel.com: The "Grants and Foundations Review"

ALSO SEE: How to Find the Best Instruction in Writing Grant Proposals

section of this Web site contains dozens of articles about the grant-proposal writing process, and discussion forums offer writers a chance to swap ideas with one another.

Grassroots Fundraising Journal: The Journal offers a free advice column by Kim Klein that deals with topics such as proposal-writing ethics and how to form relationships with foundations.

Grantseeker's Toolkit: A Comprehensive Guide to Finding Funding, by Cheryl Carter New and James Aaron Quick (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, $39.95)

Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Grantseeking, Second Edition, by Andy Robinson (Jossey-Bass, 2004, $29)

How Foundations Work: What Grantseekers Need to Know About the Many Faces of Foundations, by Dennis P. McIlnay (Jossey-Bass, 1998, $39)

Proposal Planning and Writing, Third Edition, by Lynn E. Miner and Jeremy T. Miner (Greenwood Press, 2003, $39.95)

Winning Grants: Step by Step, Second Edition, by Mim Carlson (Jossey-Bass, 2002, $29)

Writing Grant Proposals That Win, Second Edition, by Phale D. Hale Jr. (Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2003, $54.95)

See additional resources listed in a previous Philanthropy Careers article, and check out The Chronicle's event listings for proposal-writing workshops. -- Cassie J. Moore