Grants Planning for Schools

Prepare for Success with Grants

As a school leader, you’ve thought about writing a grant…what’s stopping you?

You might think you don’t have time to write a grant proposal, or that your school won’t qualify. You might wonder how to train your staff to manage grants or how to find the grants you need. Or you could be worried that grants will take too much time to search and manage, which will distract you from your main job of managing and leading your school.

Peggy Downs, a former school director, teacher, and board member, shares her strategies for success with grants. With experience writing grants for schools and nonprofits, she understands the challenges and has learned what works. In this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Prepare for Program Grants
• Find the Right Grants
• Write Your First Grant
• Write More Grants

This workbook will help you clarify your vision for grants, align your goals with your school’s mission, and find the right nonprofit organizations to support your work. You’ll also learn how to establish a grants committee, work with a paid or volunteer grant writer, and establish a grants pipeline to support future funding needs.

Grant writing is more than just filling out an application. You need to develop a program that is attractive to grantmakers and likely to make a difference. You need to know how to communicate your ideas in language that grantmakers understand. And you need to know how to find the grantmakers who are most likely to share your goals and values. You’ll learn all this and more in Grants Planning for Schools.

Plan your next grant proposal with confidence when you follow these simple steps. Get started with Grants Planning for Schools today.