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8 Steps To A Grant Winning Proposal
by Joanne Mitchell
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Xlibris (2009-04-24)
ISBN: 1413481477
EAN: 9781413481471
Dewey Decimal #: 808
Binding/Media: Paperback - 114 pages
SKU: G4090816c
Condition: NEW
Comments: 8 Steps to a Grant Winning Proposal - Trade Paperback - NEW - pages crisp, clean and unmarked - binding tight and solid - spine uncreased International Shipping avaliable - Please email for rates
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Customer Reviews
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Poorly Written and Unedited
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-11-15
Don't waste your time or money on this worthless book. It is poorly written and unedited. It is replete with incomplete sentences, inexplicable WORDS in all caps, strange! Punctuation, and repetitive sentences and repeated information. It also repeats itself. On page 28 the word "fundraising" is misspelled, and this is a book about raising funds! A huge portion of the book is simply filler. For instance many pages are taken up with useless lists of foundations and government agencies. I cannot believe I bought this book, and I wonder if I mistook it for another one and bought it by mistake. Don't bother with it. It's an embarrassment. It is a first draft that was never rewritten. It is, indeed, an example of something which is very poorly written, and its purpose would seem to be to explain how to write something well. It could not possibly be helpful to anyone. Save your money. The author should be ashamed. I will return it to Amazon.com like I would return a defective radio to Radio Shack or a moldy loaf of bread to the supermarket. By the second paragraph of the first page I was starting to wonder what the heck I was reading. I got through to page 37 and couldn't take it anymore. What a joke.
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Useful as a Supplement to Two Other Books
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-10-21
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the most recent (2005) guide to grant-winning that I have found, and has the added advantage of being offered within the context of Bioneers 2007 in the exhibits hall. It has not been noticed or reviewed before because it appears to be a self-published book, and ends with a pitch from the author who outlines his fees for helping identify prospective sources of funding, putting the materials together, etc.
Unlike my reviews of the two others books (read the first one before you read this one), here I will not do a summarization, but will compliment the author by stating that while I summarized the other book in my notes, in this book I was inspired to actually note down very specific words and actions that I could take to make our campaign more successful
The other two books are:
"Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal": A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next
Essential Principles for Fundraising Success: An Answer Manual for the Everyday Challenges of Rasing Money
A few notes from this worthy book:
* Methodical guidebook, more outline and lists than text
* Helpful focus on achieving high visibility
* Helps stimulate specific ideas unique to your effort, not just methods
* MEET foundations first if you can
* HAVE a business plan
* Discusses how to ask foundations for information about themselves (this may be dated in sense that Internet should provide most of this)
* There is a lot of boiler plate, but I did not take that as a negative
* Useful lists of foundations organized by state, and of top wealthy individuals
* End with consulting options and fees which struck me as quite reasonable for an organization with its first angel, completely unaffordable by a start-up with no funding at all
* No jacket blurbs, very plain, evidently a self-published book.
I recommend this book for purchase and reading.
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