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Winning Grants: Step by Step

From small startups to established national organisations, nonprofits large and small depend on grant funding to survive and thrive. 

Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and Writing Successful Proposals has long been a go-to resource for individuals and organisations looking for a clear, easy-to-follow approach to tackling the grant-writing process and winning funds. Now, in this revised fifth edition, changes and developments in the not-for-profit sector are integrated into the time-tested grant-writing formula that has proven effective time and again.

New to this edition, you’ll find an expanded discussion of the importance of relationship building, social media, and online resources to successful nonprofit funding. The text has also been revised to include guidance for nonprofit programme budgets for both foundation and public funding grants.

Never before has Winning Grants Step by Step been so easy to comprehend. Updated worksheets and forms will improve your comprehension and make your grant proposals stronger and more successful than ever.

This guide is perfect as an introduction for the novice grantseeker or a refresher for the more experienced. Whether your organisation needs only a thousand dollars or several million, following this step-by-step process will improve your ability to transform an idea that needs financial support into a proposal that deserves to be funded.

Published in the Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series.

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Authors

Tori O’Neal-McElrath is the Vice President of External Affairs at Demos, a United States based non-profit think-and-do tank that combines research, policy development, and advocacy to influence public debate and catalyse change.

Lynn Kanter is a consultant for national nonprofits, writing and editing a broad range of fundraising, communications, and organisational outreach materials.

Lynn English is a strategy and resource development consultant in fundraising, strategic planning, and programme development for community-based and national nonprofit organisations and foundations.

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