Grant Writing Research Guide

As you embark on a search for who might give funding to your project, you should ask yourself some questions.

Questions to ask yourself:

• Affiliation - How deeply attached is the grantor to the grantee's project?
• Affiliation - Does the grantor have an established funding pattern with another grantee?
• Capacity - Does the grantor have the financial resources to fund multiple grantees?
• Approach - Which approach to the grantor is best?

As you do research, make sure you are working toward completion of the following tasks:

Match grantors with the following aspects of your project:

• goals
• geographic and population focus
• deadline
• grant amount

Set priorities:

• closeness of the match between grantor and grantee
• proposal guidelines
• deadlines

Using the Prospect Worksheet (the electronic version is attached in the box below) is one way to organize your prospective grantors as you go along.