Guide to Grant Seeking

Grant Seeking and Writing Basics

The Foundation Center
The center publishes books and offers training courses, both online and in the classroom at various levels, to help you learn to write grant proposals that are more likely to succeed.

Grant Writers’
Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, LLC have developed and perfected a step-by-step approach to writing grant applications that can easily be learned.

HGSE Sponsored Projects Web Site
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Sponsored Projects Web site provides answers to the most frequently asked questions as well as useful tools and resources to help throughout the proposal development, submission, and award process.

Minnesota Council on Foundations
The Minnesota Council on Foundations offers many resources to assist nonprofits and grant seekers in becoming familiar with the grant making community and its interests.

The Writing Center
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides a handout that will help you write and revise grant proposals for research funding in all academic disciplines. It's targeted primarily to graduate students and faculty, although it will be helpful to undergraduate students who are seeking funding for research (e.g. for their senior thesis).

UCSB Libraries
University of California Santa Barbara Libraries offer templates and guides to writing RFPs and grants.