|
|
We publish books and offer training courses, both online and in the classroom at various levels, to help you learn to write grant proposals that are more likely to succeed.
Full-Day Classroom Training Courses
 Proposal Writing Seminar
Helps the novice nonprofit grantseeker gain the proposal writing experience needed to secure grants from foundations and corporate sources. $195.00
Proposal Budgeting Workshop
Teaches you to create a proposal budget for a special project or for operating support. We walk you through the elements of a detailed budget.
$195.00
New Course! Cultivating Grantmaker Relationships
Strengthen the partnership between your organization and its funders. $195.00
Grantseeker Training Institute
Five days of comprehensive training from the Foundation Center's experts. $795.00
Basic Classroom Training Courses
Free
Proposal Writing Basics
Provides instruction on the key components of a proposal to a foundation or corporation and answers questions that first-timers often have about the process of applying for a grant.
Proposal Writing Basics in Spanish: Principios de la escritura de propuestas
Aprenda cuales son los componentes clave de una propuesta. Aprenda el proceso de escritura y envío de propuestas a fundaciones y corporaciones.
Proposal Budgeting Basics
Teaches the essentials of budget preparation as part of a basic grant proposal, including compiling both financial elements and the budget narrative.
How to Approach a Foundation
How to initiate contact with potential funders, planning calls and meetings, and building partnerships with donors.
Online Training Courses
Proposal Writing: The Comprehensive Course
A thorough, step-by-step guide to preparing an effective proposal for foundation support, covering every section of the proposal. Includes a copy of The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals, a $39.95 value.
$189.95
Online Guides and Tutorials
Free
Proposal Writing Short Course
(Available in English, French, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish)
Describes how to prepare of the various components of a funding proposal, and includes planning, research, and cultivation of potential foundation and corporate donors.
Proposal Budgeting Basics
(Available in English and Spanish)
The basics of developing a project budget, including overhead costs, employee fringe benefits, and links to sample budget templates.
Webinars
Free
Proposal Writing Basics
Provides instruction on the key components of a proposal to a foundation or corporation and answers questions that first-timers often have about the process of applying for a grant.
|
|
The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing Comprehensive instruction on the basic and finer points of proposal writing. Based on interviews with grantmakers, the Guide to Proposal Writing also provides insight into the decision-making process.
- Order This Book
|
The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing Audiobook In partnership with the New York unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), the Foundation Center is making available free of charge a new audio version of the most popular book in our Fundraising and Nonprofit Management Series.
- Listen To or Download the Audiobook
|
The Grantseeker's Guide to Winning Proposals
Features 35 funded grant proposals reprinted in their entirety. Examples cover a wide variety of projects, and each proposal includes remarks by the program officer who approved the grant.
- Order This Book
|
Guía para escribir propuestas
A Spanish-
language edition of our popular Guide to Proposal Writing teaches both the basics and the finer points of writing a successful proposal.
- Order This Book
- Special Offer for California Residents
|
|
|
|
