Resources

Articles

• Eight Tips for Creating an Accurate Budget for Your Grant Proposal
• Getting Grants in Your Community – United for Libraries Toolkit (pdf)
• Goal vs. Objective: What’s the Difference?
• Grant Writing Basics for Libraries (presenation slides)
• How to Perfect Your Needs Statement
• The Basics of Grant Writing: Becoming Grant Ready
• Three Examples of Grant Budgets That Will Win Over Funders

Books

• Grant Writing for Dummies – by Beverly A. Browning

• How to Write a Grant: Become a Grant Writing Unicorn – by Meredith Noble

• The Beginner’s Guide to Grant Writing: Tips, Tools, & Templates to Write Winning Grants – by Holly Rustick

• The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need – by Ellen Karsh

Videos

• How to Write a Project Budget Narrative (and get funded!)

• Learn Grant Writing Video: Persuasive Data

• Tutorial: How to Write a Grant Budget

• What is? Goal vs. Objective

Websites

• Instrumentl Blog

• A Village for Good

•  Grants Magic U

• Demco Free Grants Database

• Grants.gov

• Philanthropy News Digest