Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants

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Even if you were applying for just one grant, you'd have to find out about the funder, the details of the opportunity, and the application guidelines. Any grant seeker can do that. As an efficient grant seeker you do a bit more and reap the rewards. You realize you'll be seeking numerous small and mid-sized grants each year, so you check out a number of prospective funders at one time. You realize that even though grant seeking is a rational process, funders don't always publish formal statements about their giving that reflect exactly what they do. So you research each one to get some idea of how the funder acts. You pick ...