Overview
Develop grant proposals that will be funded!
Grant Writing in Higher Education: A Step-by-Step Guide is a practical resource that will help you develop effective grant proposals. In this book, Henson identifies different attitudes that prevent serious grant writers from writing effective proposals, as well as positive attitudes that are key in moving proposals toward acceptance.
Grant Writing in Higher Education: A Step-by-Step Guide gives you the tools you need to be a successful grant writer by taking you step by step through the process.
Features:
- Offers guidance and examples to prepare you to add unique features that make your proposal stand out and catch the attention of the reviewers.
- A section on Preparing Budgets shows you how to prepare budgets that will impress the reviewer and also how to test a budget to ensure that it is reasonable and sound.
- A Funding Sources section directs you to the best sources available anywhere for locating funding agencies.
Ken Henson is dean of the School of Education at The Citadel. He initiated collaborative grants with the University of Alabama Physics Department that beat the competition four consecutive years. He was collaborator on two grants that totaled over $100 million. His clearly written proposals and manuscripts have earned state and national awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship and a National Science Foundation Academic Year Fellowship. He was named the Association of Teacher Educators' Distinguished Teacher Educator for the year 2000. His Introduction to Grant Writing and Writing for Publication workshops have been given on more than 200 campuses.
Synopsis
This book helps grant writers in higher education to secure funding. It identifies positive and negative attitudes that affect producing highly desirable and fundable proposals.
A Steps and Guidelines section helps make sure the reader finishes the book with a clear idea of how to prepare successful proposals. A separate segment on Preparing Budgets shows how to prepare budgets that will impress the reviewer and also how to test a budget to ensure that it is reasonable and sound. Information is included that is designed to help grant writers match their own reasons for writing grant proposals with the expectations of the potential funder. Several actual proposals written by the author that have been funded are provided as examples. The book identifies the essentials in a proposal package and explains how to develop each segment.
Designed as a professional development resource for all faculty in higher education and individuals in all areas of K-12 education, particularly those in administrative capacities.