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Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals

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Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals

Sixth Edition   Bourque, Howlett, © 2016, 244 pages

This International award-winning best seller is used as a college level textbook across the US and Canada and trusted by individuals in the non-profit sector. Getting Funded is the go-to guide for grant proposal writing, giving organizational development and sustainability advice in addition to building ideas into thoughtful, measurable plans that attract grant maker support and enthusiasm.

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About the Authors

Renee Bourque person

Renee Bourque, MEd, Grant Professional Certified (GPC), comes from a long line of educators. She graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction from Seattle University. This academic legacy continued in her role as faculty, raising millions of dollars through classes in the top-ranked Nonprofit Management Program of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and Governance, Graduate School, University of Washington where she taught PhD and master’s students grant writing and philanthropy from across the graduate school, including medicine, library science, social work, international affairs, and business. In the University of Washington Fundraising Management certificate program, Renee taught grant writing, prospect research, and finance to students working toward careers in fundraising for nonprofits. At the University of Idaho, she taught academic departments how to dovetail their research through the proposal development process and then get research out of labs and into rural development..

Renee is a recognized Grant Writing Subject Matter Expert endorsed by the University of South Florida and the Grant Professional Certification Institute.

Renee is president of Bright Star Grant Consultants, where she serves a world-wide clientele of non-profits, governments, and universities with innovative leadership in highly complex assignments. In finance, she develops diversified and leveraged funding plans that scale with organizational growth. In her role as a strategy expert, she has led local, statewide, and international initiatives related to philanthropy, leadership, human rights, economic development, education, and health care. Renee uses wide-ranging approaches to transform poverty by building resilience with inclusive economy strategies. This work has included multi-country community assessment and development plans in places like the East Africa Hardship Zone, and international scale-ups with Ashoka Fellows. She worked with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center to reintroduce endangered bison to the wild as featured in National Geographic.

Susan Howlett person

Susan Howlett has been helping nonprofits raise money joyfully since 1975, as a board member, development director, executive director, freelance grantwriter and consultant. For the last thirty years, she has consulted with over 1,000 nonprofit organizations throughout the United States on fundraising, leadership development, and organizational development.

For over twenty-five years, Susan was core faculty in the yearlong Fundraising Management Certificate program at the University of Washington, where she earned their Award for Teaching Excellence. She taught grantwriting to faculty, staff, and students in several departments at the University of Washington and a dozen other colleges. She developed the Non-Profit Management certificate program at Bellevue College, in which she taught for twenty years.

Susan has served as a grant reviewer with private and public foundations as well as with local, state, and federal government agencies. She served as a Subject Matter Expert in the early development of the national Grant Professionals Certification Program.


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This International award-winning best seller is used as a college level textbook across the US and Canada and trusted by individuals in the non-profit sector. Getting Funded is the go-to guide for grant proposal writing, giving organizational development and sustainability advice in addition to building ideas into thoughtful, measurable plans that attract grant maker support and enthusiasm.

This sixth edition of Getting Funded reflects the experience of three authors: Dr. Mary Stewart Hall (editions 1-4), Susan Howlett (editions 4-6) and Renee Bourque, (editions 5-6). The combined experience of all three authors represents ninety years of making grants, writing proposals, consulting to private foundations, participating in federal and state review committees, leading professional grantmaking and grantseeking associations, and teaching proposal writing.

New to This Edition
With each edition, the authors have tried to make the content more accessible to readers while remaining rigorous. In this edition, you will find emphasis on organizational readiness for grantseeking and on the importance of clearly defining the need, situation, or problem that you intend to address in your proposed project.

You will also see new information about developing and defining outcomes, impact, indicators, logic models and theory of change. You’ll learn to distinguish between theories of change and logic models, so you can use the right framework for the right purpose. Logic models are often requested in grant proposals to show how goals, activities and resources are connected to projected results, while theory of change statements are requested to show the chain of logic that clarifies why a line of work is undertaken and what will happen as a result. Both presentations are linked to an increasing emphasis on clarity about outcomes and impact.

This edition also includes new content that was suggested by many of the valued instructors who use it regularly as a textbook. In addition to the resources included at the back of the book, an expanded list of resources for grantseekers will be maintained on a website, which will be updated regularly with links and information that emerge after publication. That website is www.gettingfundedbook.com.

The book has been written to meet the needs of both beginning and experienced grantseekers, from organizations as large as the Red Cross to as small as your neighborhood association. Readers from a broad spectrum of disciplines—from scientific researchers to arts presenters to social justice activists and beyond—will find valuable information on getting their projects funded.

How to Use This Book
This book is organized into three major parts. Part I offers suggestions for how to prepare your organization and your proposal idea so that when it’s time to write, you’ll have the answers you need and the process will unfold swiftly. Part II describes the different types of funders, the various kinds of support you can ask for, and how to determine which ones are a good match for your organization and project. It also advises you how to approach funders prior to submitting a proposal. Part III begins with information about project management for a grant proposal and also details the standard elements of proposals, what funders are looking for in each section, and how to make your answers as competitive as possible. The chapters in Part III are designed to help you craft a tight, compelling document. The final chapter, “Investing in Ongoing Relationships”, covers what happens after your proposal is submitted and after you get funded. The Appendixes include helpful checklists and handouts for those who teach courses or workshops on proposal writing, as well as tips for working with freelance grantwriters.

Throughout the book you’ll find quotes and tips from funders and seasoned grantwriters as well as stories and case studies to bring concepts to life and illustrate their relevance to the real world. The stories and case studies are drawn from the authors’ experience working with actual grantseeking organizations; names, places, and events have been omitted, changed, or combined to maintain confidentiality.

You’ll also find sidebars of excerpted advice from Ken Ristine, senior program officer for the Ben B. Cheney Foundation since 1989, and longtime contributor to online forums on grantwriting, fundraising, legal issues, and organizational development. He routinely consults with nonprofits throughout the Pacific Northwest, and is a valued source of wisdom on how grantmakers think and what they expect from grant proposals.

Key terms and their definitions are included at the ends of chapters and a glossary at the back of the book helps clarify terms and concepts. We trust this book will help you think about, prepare, and produce a compelling, persuasive proposal that demonstrates that your project is worth funding. And we hope you enjoy the process.

Novice or Expert - a MUST-HAVE resource
"Getting Funded is my go-to text for teaching and learning grantwriting. It is well organized, substantive and yet easy to navigate. With the addition of new information in Chapter 3 - designing your theory of change - it got even better. I delight in using this text to challenge aspiring grant writers to thoroughly understand the outcomes and strategies, not just activities, that will help to actualize their goals BEFORE they write. A brilliant contribution to the field!"
-- Dr. Kristina L. Mayer, teaching with the book as Affiliate Faculty of University of Washington Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2022. Dr. Mayer is also Owner and Principal Consultant, KLMayer Consulting Group, Inc.

Use this book as an instructor, as a grant maker, and as a grant seeker
"This book hits all the key notes related to the art and science of writing proposals. I have used it as an instructor, as a grant maker, and as a grant seeker because it is the most comprehensive and practical resource I’ve encountered for the end to end process of seeking funding. As a finance and operations leader, I particularly appreciate the easy to understand content on creating proposal budgets that tell a story about how investments will be structured and spent."
-- Kristen Spangler, Chief Financial and Operating Officer of Woman’s Link WorldWide, Instructor in the Certificate in Fundraising Management at the University of Washington, Associate Director of the Women’s Funding Alliance



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