Coaching the Applicant
A well-crafted Q&C will elicit the information you need and will also help the grantseeker strengthen the proposal. It will not, however, rewrite the proposal for the grantseeker. Unless you work for an unabashedly peremptory foundation, you should subscribe to the belief that a proposal should ultimately reflect the will of the applicant or, at any rate, the joint will of the applicant and the foundation. If the proposal is merely a series of statements signed by the grantseeker but dictated by the grantmaker, then it loses its legitimacy with the applicant. You must therefore be a coach without becoming the author of the proposal.
The questions in the Q&C become the cornerstone of the coaching process. They raise issues ...
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