Grant writing advice

Fdn center’s short course on proposal writing

http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html

Writing a Grant proposal

http://www.civicus.org/new/media/Writing%20a%20funding%20proposal.pdf

Proposal writing

http://www.rec.org/REC/Programs/NGO_Support/PDF/ProposalWriting.pdf

Business plan writing

http://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/writing-business-plan

Some examples of proposals

http://www.npgoodpractice.org/concept/Grantwriting

sample business plans

http://www.bplans.com/nonprofit_business_plan_templates.cfm

For the LOI or project introduction
- bullet points or paragraph style is fine
- 3 pages should be enough but let me give you some tips about that.
* the background info – no need to go intro great details about the disaster overall – just a paragraph about the specific problem your project will solve (the people in the US office know there was a M9 EQ on March 11, 2011 and that we have an aging population issue)
* for Goals – focus  on 1 or 2
* impacts and outputs – you can more than 1 or 2 here but try to have a few that are quantifable and/or concrete things that can be monitored
* be sure to include a few lines showing that your have spoken to local people and that you are already embedded in the community.
* the budget can be rough estimates
* photos – you can add a few – but right now there is no need to make a big pr package.

Step 1 – introductory project description