Grant and Proposal Writing

"Writing a proposal for a sponsored activity such as a research project or a curriculum development program is a problem of persuasion. It is well to assume that your reader is a busy, impatient, skeptical person who has no reason to give your proposal special consideration and who is faced with many more requests than he can grant, or even read thoroughly. "
( Proposal Writer's Guide by Don Thackrey )
"A proposal must convince the prospective donor of two things: that a problem need of significant magnitude exists, and that the applicant agency has the means and the imagination to solve the problem or meet the need ." (http://www.silcom.com/~paladin/promaster.html )
Here are some good grant and proposal writing resources on Internet:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2000/nsf002/nsf002.doc -- National Science Foundation's grant proposal guide

http://www.med.nyu.edu/nih-guide.html -- NIH-Guide to Grants and Contracts Database

http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants/grants_forms.htm -- Forms for preparing proposals and grants

http://www.jmu.edu/sponsprog/tips2.htm-- Preparing and organizing a proposal

http://www.ssrc.org/artprop.htm -- The art of writing proposals by Social Science Research Council

http://www.research.umich.edu/research/proposals/proposals.html -- An excellent proposal writer's guide

http://fdncenter.org/onlib/shortcourse/prop1.html -- A proposal writing online course

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