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Susan McLester
Editor in Chief, HotChalk.com

Ten Ways to Win Grants

Adequate funding remains a huge challenge for schools in these days of tightened belts. The following tips are courtesy of Douglas Brooks, an educator and grant writing specialist.

1. Know what you want and need to fund.  There is a difference.
2. Find the right funding source. Their mission must match your need.
3. Create an Action Summary.  Make sure you are eligible.
4. Create a Grant Writing Guide. Give yourself a chance to succeed.
5. Create a Key Vocabulary Sheet. Write using the language of the RFP.
6. Build a Grant Writing Team. Grant narratives have different parts and require different skills.
7. Improve prior text every time you write. Make sure today’s work matches yesterday’s production.
8. Name your grant application. “Project Achieve” is a great sentence starter.
9. Write clear objectives that reflect your needs and the goals of the grant application.
10. Shorten your sentences.  Make your grant easy to understand.

For details and examples for all of the above, see Douglas Brooks’ Funding 101 series on HotChalk.com.

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