Additional Resources About Grants And Grant Writing - The Writing Center - UW-Madison™

This page provides a brief overview of some of the resources available through the Grants Information Collection at UW-Madison’s Memorial Library in addition to some other resources for writers working on grant proposals. For current students, faculty, and staff at UW-Madison, this collection at the Memorial Library is a great resource for you to turn to at any point of your grant writing process. There is even a librarian dedicated to managing and distributing this grant information. Among other things, on their website you can find links to databases where undergraduate and graduate students can seek out funding sources. This collection also has resources for people interested in nonprofit organization grants. You can find information about and handouts from the workshops they offer on grant proposal writing here as well as material from their workshops grant editor about undergraduate and graduate education grants. In addition to the texts featured below, the grant collection’s website also contains references to many other books and internet resources with loads of grant information as well as how you can contact the library’s dedicated grant librarian. It’s worth your time to make good use of this amazing resource! Here are some of the books housed in the Grant Information Collection that we find to be particularly useful. Hall, Mary and Susan Howlett. Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals. This very thorough volume functions as a textbook for grant proposal writing. Hall and Howlett’s advice and insight is applicable to a range of grant writing contexts. Teitel, Martin.“Thank You for Submitting Your Proposal”: A Foundation Director Reveals What Happens Next. After decades of working with funding agencies, Teitel has a unique perspective on what effective proposals look like. Thompson, Waddy. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grant Writing. Especially in part 5 (pages 129-200), this book contains insight, tips, and strategies for writing grant proposals. Appendices C-F provide some excellent samples of different kinds of proposals. Coley, Soraya M. and Cynthia A. Scheinberg. This is a quick, back-pocket handbook to writing in this genre. Henson, Kenneth T. Grant Writing in Higher Education: A Step-by-Step Guide. The advice that Henson provides about proposal writing could be applied to many contexts, but he is particularly interested in helping educators receive funding for scholastic projects. Crawley, Gerard M. and Eoin O’Sullivan. The Grant Writer’s Handbook: How to Write a Research Proposal and Succeed. This text is particularly directed to graduate students and academic researchers studying the natural or social sciences, engineering, medicine, economics, and medicine who are interested in writing research proposals. Chapters 4 and 5 are focused on proposal writing.