With over 40 successful grant proposals dating back to 1985, I offer experience and a verifiable record of success few can match. Some things you should know: - Grant "writing" is the LAST step in a series of strategic, preliminary activities. In most cases, funding success or failure will be determined as much or more by those preceding activities as by the written grant. - Researching potential funding sources, presenting and effectively justifying grant outcomes, and carefully planning and documenting the budget section of the grant are among those critical preliminary activities. - Getting enough grant proposals "in the pipeline" significantly increases the probability of funding. - The grants you don't pursue are just as important as the ones you do. There is an opportunity cost of time and resources for every grant proposal you prepare. Everyone unsuccessful grant proposal you write comes at the cost of a potentially successful proposal that could have been written instead. For the above reasons, it's essential that your grant writer be someone with a proven track record demonstrated again and again over many years.