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Potential funding sources for your well-deserved grant award have been trying hard to help grantseekers, including you, understand what they want to read in an award-winning grant proposal. Although the funders’ guidelines may vary in how they order the requested information or word the headings/subheadings, in the end they all want to see commonly organized, written presentations of information.

Shift your focus from the excitement of finding grantfunding opportunities for your organization to gearing up to write the following blocks of information:

 Factual information about your organization and its qualifications as a potential grantee

 Compelling information about the specific project (12-month implementation timeframe) or program (multi-year implementation timeframe) for which you’re seeking funding

 Planning-savvy narrative about what you intend to do with the money if you receive it

As you read through each section of the funder’s guidelines, make sure you understand how the funder defines its terms. You need to consider whether you can interpret what the funder’s asking for in more than one way in order to avoid accidentally giving the wrong info.

What do you do if you don’t understand what the funder really wants? Make a call or send an email, of course. When in doubt, ask! When confused, ask!

In the following sections, I review the basic facts you’re required to provide on most grant applications. I also give you an overview of the project details funders expect you to provide, and I offer suggestions on how to win over the application reviewers, also known as decision makers. After all, you do want to get funded, right?