No matter whether you are approaching public or private sponsors, this thorough and detailed step-by-step guide will enable you to plan and write winning proposals.

• Discusses resources to identify the tens of thousands of grantmakers that award more than $350 billion in philanthropic funds annually

• Provides a time-tested template to write proposals for private foundations and corporations, with samples to illustrate how the template can be used in different grant writing situations

• Features new examples of and strategies for increasing the overall quality and competitiveness of grant applications

• Addresses sponsors' increased attention to evaluation and their desire to move beyond counting participants and activities to measuring a project's impact

• Looks at different types of sustainability and interrelationships among grant proposal narratives, logic models, and budgets

• Offers new strategies for engineering and reverse engineering budgets to help maintain alignment between costs and activities and insulate against potential requests for budget reductions