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When you’re ready to start your grantfunding research, keep your funding plan template close at hand. You’re likely to find a lot of potential funding opportunities, so reading the opportunity and then perusing the plan to make sure the opportunity fits is a smart move. You’re searching for perfect fits between what you need and what the funder wants to fund.

The best way to sustain a high funding success rate is to identify multiple funding sources for each project initiative in your funding plan. Then submit your grant proposals to all of them.

Sending out multiple proposals is standard practice as long as you tell all the funders that you plan to approach other sources. Providing each proposal with a simple one-page attachment labeled “Funding Sources Receiving This Request” is the most ethical way to inform all funders of your strategy. (I provide an example of such a document in Chapter 19.) Or you can list other sources you’ve approached on the actual grant application, if such a section exists.

In the sections that follow, I explain what you need to know to find a broad range of potential funding sources.