Re: Grant Writing

[Michele Davis <michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com>]

I thought grant writing would be easy, so I volunteered for my 
children's schools for the grantwriting team. Talk about tough, sheesh, 
there were all these foundations to look up and figure out what type of 
grants they gave, what critieria they gave them under and how we 
qualified. In standard grant applications you need a budget, how the 
money will be spent and x number of pages of writing about your school, 
project, etc., trying to convince the powers that be that your grant is 
the most worthy.

I never understood why my girlfriend would get upset when she had to 
make phone calls to get information, but now I do. It takes time away 
from writing the grant and staying in that "zone" which is very 
different than writing copy, writing a book or techwriting.

In order to apply for a grant writing position you're going to have to 
have grant writing experience, not just a desire to do grant writing, 
but tangible experience. The grant writers I know all started out of 
college with English or Journalism degrees and got experience. In 
Minnesota my friends who freelance grant write make the same amount of 
money I do per hour.

Michele

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