Grant Writing

The Basics and Beyond

Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is a service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas. It offers a detailed outline for writing a grant application for funding with links to The Community Tool Box chapters.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting offers an easy guide to the basic elements of grant writing for organizations that may not have submitted grants before.

Grant Proposal.com
This site offers an overview of aesthetics and technical information for non-profit organizations interested in writing grant proposals.

US Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Extramural Research
The US Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Extramural Research offers a number of grant writing tip sheets.

Non-profit Guides
These grant writing tools for non-profit organizations include sample private and public Request for Proposals (RFP) and private and public sample proposals.

Writing Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A handout on writing and revising grant proposals; includes an outline of the grant proposal writing process, information about writing for specific fields, and examples for the various proposal sections by the Writing Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

National Science Foundation
The Guide for proposal writing developed by the staff of the Division of Undergraduate Education(DUE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Foundation Center
Free basic classroom training, online guides and tutorials as well as webinars on proposal writing and proposal budgeting basics offered by The Foundation Center. Some courses available in Spanish.

Grants.gov
A portal to all grants and grant resources in the federal government.

Michigan State University Libraries
Annotated list maintained by the MSU Library of Fund Raiser and Grant Writing Consultants.