Creating Winning Grant Proposals

A Step-By-Step Guide
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4625-3908-6
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 251 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Providing clear-cut steps for producing each section of a competitive grant proposal, this hands-on book is filled with examples from actual RFPs and proposals, practical tools, and writing tips. Prominent educator and successful proposal writer Anne L. Rothstein shares a systematic process created over decades of experience in the field. She details how to: achieve group consensus around a project; identify likely funding sources; establish need; develop objectives; assemble a Master Project Table and other needed tables, figures, and charts; create an effective logic model; prepare an evaluation; put together a budget; tailor the proposal to meet the requirements of funders; and avoid common errors. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the book's 14 reproducible templates in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothstein, Anne L

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Preparing for the Proposal
1. The Process Approach: How and Why
2. Elements of the Planning Process
3. Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Approaches
4. Broadening, then Focusing Your Project
5. Finding Funding
II. Elements of the Proposal
6. The Master Table and Creating Subtables
7. Narrative Summary of Proposal Elements
8. Preparing the Abstract and Introduction
9. An In-Depth Look at Logic Models
10. Establishing Need for the Project
11. Project Goals and Objectives
12. Plan of Operation
13. Evaluation
14. Budget and Budget Narrative
III. Additional Considerations
15. Dissemination, Sustainability, and Significance
16. Addressing Invitational and Competitive Priorities
17. Guide to Proposal Review and Scoring
18. Next Steps
Practice Exercises
Forms
Glossary
Appendices
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne L. Rothstein, EdD, is Professor in the Department of Early Childhood and Childhood Education at Lehman College of the City University of New York. During her more than 50 years at Lehman, she has served as Department Chair, Associate Dean of Professional Studies, and Associate Provost for Sponsored Program Research. Since 1985, Dr. Rothstein has written over 400 grant proposals and received more than 300 grant awards. She has also directed many grant-funded programs for K-12 students and teachers and for college students. Her current research interests focus on college access and readiness, the impact of college readiness program dosage on student success, high school graduation and college enrollment, and the role of college student support in increasing 4-year graduation rates.