Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal

Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal
by S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D.*

This Guide for Writing a Funding Proposal was created to help empower people to be successful in gaining funds for projects that provide worthwhile social service. A major theme that runs throughout the Guide is a concern for the development of meaningful cooperative relationships - with funding agencies, with community organizations, and with the people you are serving - as a basis for the development of strong fundable initiatives. The Guide is built on the assumption that it is through collaboration and participation at all levels that long term change can be affected.

Each of the headings used in this Guide are suggested as meaningful ways to organize your own funding proposal and were identified through an examination of a number of different proposal writing formats. The comments and suggestions that follow each heading are presented to help you prepare a strong and fundable proposal.

*S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan USA

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