# Winning Grants: Step by Step

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/winning-grants-step-by-step/
- Published: 2019-08-28T11:43:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**From small startups to established national organisations, nonprofits large and
small depend on grant funding to survive and thrive. **

_Winning Grants Step by Step: The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing, and
Writing Successful Proposals_ has long been a go-to resource for individuals and
organisations looking for a clear, easy-to-follow approach to tackling the grant-
writing process and winning funds. Now, in this revised fifth edition, changes and
developments in the not-for-profit sector are integrated into the time-tested grant-
writing formula that has proven effective time and again.

New to this edition, you’ll find an expanded discussion of the importance of relationship
building, social media, and online resources to successful nonprofit funding. The
text has also been revised to include guidance for nonprofit programme budgets for
both foundation and public funding grants.

Never before has _Winning Grants Step by Step _been so easy to comprehend. Updated
worksheets and forms will improve your comprehension and make your grant proposals
stronger and more successful than ever.

 * Learn the proven step-by-step approach to writing strong grant proposals for 
   foundation grants and public funds
 * Complete worksheets and activities to practice your grant-writing skills and 
   break the process down into easy pieces
 * Understand how to integrate your ideas and insights with research and facts to
   demonstrate your organisation’s potential
 * Learn the best approaches to building relationships and networking both in-person
   and online to push strong grant proposals into the winner’s circle

This guide is perfect as an introduction for the novice grantseeker or a refresher
for the more experienced. Whether your organisation needs only a thousand dollars
or several million, following this step-by-step process will improve your ability
to transform an idea that needs financial support into a proposal that deserves 
to be funded.

Published in the Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series.

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## Authors

**Tori O’Neal-McElrath** is the Vice President of External Affairs at Demos, a United
States based non-profit think-and-do tank that combines research, policy development,
and advocacy to influence public debate and catalyse change.

**Lynn Kanter** is a consultant for national nonprofits, writing and editing a broad
range of fundraising, communications, and organisational outreach materials.

**Lynn English** is a strategy and resource development consultant in fundraising,
strategic planning, and programme development for community-based and national nonprofit
organisations and foundations.