Additional Resources

Here is a list of literature that some may find helpful while soliciting funds.

Proposal Planning and Writing by Lynn Miner and Jerry Griffith is a useful book that covers the general field of proposal writing. Its advice to people approaching foundations is particularly helpful.

Getting a Grant in the 1990’s: How to Write Successful Grant Proposals by Robert Lefferts attempts to demystify proposal writing and grant seeking for the social scientist. The author offers a set of principles and methods which can be adapted to individual creativity and needs.

Grant Application Writer’s Handbook by Liane Reif-Lehrer focuses on the research application with special reference to proposals to the National Institutes of Health. Despite its narrow frame of reference, it is an excellent introduction to how to write a proposal for basic research.

Grant Proposals That Succeeded by Virginia White contains examples of successful proposals for research, training, arts and humanities, and provides case histories and discussions of the proposal and the negotiation process, agency review procedures, and other helpful material.

The Proposal Writer’s Swipe File, published by the Taft Corporation, contains the full text of professionally written grant proposals considered by the editor to be prototypes f approaches, styles and structures in the art of proposal writing. Most applicable to not-for-profit community-based organizations. Three volumes.

Professors as Writers by Robert Boice gives advice on how to develop momentum in any scholarly writing endeavor; although it contains no dedicated section on proposals, the book’s principles are particularly applicable to successful proposal writing.

The Grants World Inside Out by Robert Lucas is a wry volume that gives another perspective on the hectic world of academic research grants and provides relief from the stress of proposal writing.

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There are some other legalities and professional organizations to review before soliciting for funds.

Attorney General's Office
In Ohio, charitable organizations are generally required to register with the Attorney General's Office.

For more information on registering, please visit Attorney General’s Office.

Better Business Bureau
Registering with the Better Business Bureau can lead donors to vital information and give them confidence in donating to your organization.

Better Business Bureau
BBB Standards for Charity Accountability
Dayton/ Miami Valley Better Business Bureau

Association of Fundraising Professionals
A national association dedicated to fundraising professionals to provide members with tools to fundraise ethically as well as effectively.

Association of Fundraising Professionals

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The Non-Profit Fundraising Resource

TechSoup - The Technology Place for Nonprofits

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