Finding Funding: strategies & developing grants

This resource guide provides links to practical guides on approaching donors, donor relationship management, writing grants and reporting to funders.

Writing Grants, Proposals and Funding Applications

Designing a successful funding proposal (Social Worker Action Team, 2005) [available online]

A guide to writing a case statement. (Community Foundations of Canada) [available online]

Preparing an effective business case : a guide to planning and funding municipal and community projects (Baxter, 2002) [available online]

Proposal writing short course (Geever, 2004) [available online]

Using competitions & RFPs, requests for proposals (Arrick et al. 2002) [available online]

Writing a funding proposal (Shapiro, 2003) [available online]

Writing proposals for major gifts from individuals, foundations and corporations (van Rotterdam, 2003) [available online]

Fundraising Strategies

Face to face : how to get bigger donations from very generous people. (Wyman, 1993) [available online]

Board handbook for fundraising. (VON, 2002) [available online]

Fundraising for your organization. (Fleming & Larmer, 1989) [available online]

Friendraising : raising funds, finding friends to realize bold community visions : a workbook (Born, 2003) [available online]

Donor centered fundraising : how to hold on to your donors and raise much more money (Burk, 2003) [in print only]

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