Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer: A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding

Do you want to tap into grant funding? Do you have responsibility to increase donations through foundation, corporate or government funders? Do you want to increase your acceptance rate? Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer will help you to: Understand various funder motivations; relate to funders in language they understand; discover new prospects; build successful relationships; write proposal narratives; present effective budgets; work with organizational and program staff; and position you and your agency for success. This guide is for grant writers and other development professionals; foundation, corporate and government relationship professionals; and anyone wanting to raise more revenue through proposals. Author Joanne Oppelt, MHA, GPC has been in nonprofit organization resource development since 1993. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Kean University, teaching courses in fund development. On average Joanne garners forty-five funded grants--raising more than a million dollars--per year.