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Recommended
Reading: Best Practices in Grant Seeking: Beyond the Proposal
As the competition for
private foundation dollars becomes increasingly more intense, nonprofit
organizations are struggling to find competent grant writers who can show
results. But even a perfectly written proposal, or a highly qualified grant
writer, cannot guarantee funding. Best Practices in Grant Seeking: Beyond the
Proposal explores how to involve an organization’s leadership in the grant
seeking process, and how to work together with staff from public relations,
programs, and even other fundraising areas, to make the grant proposal process
more fruitful. The best practices in this book can help nonprofit officials
determine agency-wide activities – both short and long term – that support and
enhance the efforts of the grant writer and that will ultimately improve the
amount and number of grants received from foundations by building long-lasting
relationships with funders, accessing the power of their communities, and
establishing internal communication and cooperation.
Table of Contents:
Part I - Laying the Groundwork
Part II - Creating the Request
Part III - While the Jury’s Out
Part IV - After the Grant Award
Conclusion - The Future of Grant Seeking
About the Author:
Saadia Faruqi, President of
Faruqi & Associates, has more than 10 years of grant writing and development
experience in the nonprofit sector, including at-risk youth, women’s health,
domestic violence, science education, adult and family literacy, and the arts.
She also has extensive experience in public relations, communications,
marketing, and finance. Prior to founding Faruqi & Associates, Saadia worked as
Grants Administrator and later Grants Consultant for Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Greater Houston. She has also served as Development Director of Literacy Advance
of Houston. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the
University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the
University of Karachi, in her native country of Pakistan. In 2001, she received
the prestigious President’s Student Service Award, granted by George W. Bush for
volunteerism and student leadership. Saadia is also founder and past Chair of
the Grant Writers’ Network of Greater Houston, an organization dedicated to
providing professional development, training, and networking opportunities for
grant writers in the Houston area. She works and lives in Houston, Texas, with
her husband and two young children.
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