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Ten Points to Increase Your Grant Writing Success

Ten Points to Increase Your Grant Writing Success. Presented by Cecil Carter Murray State College. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success. Over the past 12 years, I have been lucky enough to win over $10.0 million in grants.  I read and research the subject

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Ten Points to Increase Your Grant Writing Success

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  1. Ten Points to Increase Your Grant Writing Success Presented by Cecil Carter Murray State College

  2. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success Over the past 12 years, I have been lucky enough to win over $10.0 million in grants.  I read and research the subject  I listen to experts, attending at least one grant writing seminar annually. I follow my own rules.  I still lose a lot of grants.

  3. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success • Be certain your organization is fundable Research your own organization documents. What can you legally do? • Design a fundable project… THIS IS THE HARDEST PART OF GRANT WRITING. THIS IS THE KEY!

  4. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success • Research the most likely grant makers Who would want to give money to a project like yours? • Develop relationships with grant makers. Get to know them personally!

  5. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success • Develop partners to leverage the grant makers funding Grant makers don’t like to be the only one believing in your project!

  6. Grant Writing’s Top 10 List • Write a compelling letter of inquiry. this means: This is a grant in miniature. Limit: 2 pages • Develop a carefully crafted grant proposal: It will need a Drama, Trauma, Gloom and Doom scenario without the funding There is technical and artistic parts to any grant…Know them!

  7. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success • Follow up with the grant maker It is good manners to send a thank you note. Don’t email it! Hand written notes are 100 [maybe 1,000] times better than an email. Use English not IM Jargon.

  8. Grant Writing’s Top 10 List • Develop a strong logic model This is a fundamental planning tool, examples are attached. For more on Logic Models contact: www.wkkf.org the W. K. Kellogg Foundation

  9. Ten Point to Grant Writing Success • Contacts: Cecil Carter Murray State College ccarter@mscok.edu(school) 940.321.9527 (home)

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