Proposal writing : effective grantsmanship / Soraya M. Coley, California State University, Bakersfield, Cynthia A. Scheinberg, Private Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coley, Soraya M. (Soraya Moore)

Contributor:

Scheinberg, Cynthia A.

Series:

SAGE sourcebooks for the human services.

SAGE sourcebooks for the human services

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proposal writing in human services.

Social service.

Physical Description:

xiv, 135 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Fourth Edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2013.

Summary:

Clear, easy-to-understand, and jargon-free, this updated Fourth Edition of Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship offers a step-by-step guide to writing a successful grant proposal to meet community needs. Throughout the book, the authors provide a guided process to assist the new grantwriter in understanding how to find grant opportunities, how to develop a viable project and evaluate outcomes, and how to prepare an application for funding. The book is written for employees in the non-profit sector who are asked to write a proposal and for students who may ultimately have careers that require this skill: Key Features, NEW! Provides a greater context for proposal writing by adding a historical perspective to the book and a discussion of non-profit organizations. NEW! Introduces a new chapter that comprehensively focuses on the development of sound proposal ideas. NEW! Reorganized with a more effective learning progression, from identifying funding sources, to conceptualizing the proposal and evaluation plans, to writing those plans in grant format. NEW! Provides additional sample documents, including a letter of support, abstract, cover letter, and budget justification. NEW! Offers more examples and tables within the text to provide the reader with more tangible samples of proposal language and style. A focus on the "new grantsmanship" essential for navigating the economic, political, and social dimensions of grant writing appears throughout the book. Chapter outlines begin each chapter to orient readers to the content to come. Several chapters are devoted to conceptualizing the proposal: Assessing community need, developing cost-effective approaches to meet that need, preparing an evaluation plan to measure the change the project has made, and determining the cost of the project in a budget. A section on writing the proposal focuses on the nuts and bolts of the actual writing of the proposal that includes examples within the text. Book jacket.

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

Preface to the fourth edition

An orientation to proposal writing

Organizing the writing and using technology

Assessing the organization

Generating and refining proposal ideas

Writing the needs/problem statement

Writing goals, objectives, and the implementation plan

Writing the evaluation plan

Creating the budget

Finishing touches

Appendix A: Estimating time

Appendix B: Funding resource information

References and suggested readings

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1412988993

9781412988995

OCLC:

781684049

Publisher Number:

99959558652