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Micah Anderson
Successful Grant Writing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations: Nonprofit organizations have a great potential for addressing our society’s most challenging social and environmental problems and for delivering critical services to local communities. In turn, these organizations often rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to help fund their activities and social change efforts. Through this course I hope to develop skills and gain practical experience in the process of grant writing while serving the needs of a local nonprofit organization whose mission I identify with and value.
Study Learning Goals
- Study and become oriented to the characteristics of and criteria for successful grant appeals to foundations, corporations, and government agencies;
- Advance awareness of various funding sources available to non-profit organizations and learn to navigate the navigate the Foundation Center’s database;
- Develop strategies for choosing sources based on an organization’s mission and values;
- Gain practical experience in writing Letters of Inquiry and grants appeals while simultaneously serving a local non-profit organization.
Course Readings
- Frost, G. (1993). Winning grant proposals: eleven successful appeals by American nonprofits to corporations, foundations, individuals, and government agencies. Rockville, MD: Fund Raising Institute.
- Geever, J. (2007). The Foundation Center’s guide to proposal writing. New York: The Foundation Center.
- Guyer, M. (2002). A concise guide to getting grants for nonprofit organizations. New York: Kroshka Books.
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