Jeremy T. Miner

In these times of downturn, teacher librarians will have to sharpen their ability to write grants. These two professional grant writers try to help by covering and making suggestions on how to write for both public and private grants. They go through the various procedures from cover letters to the proposal and with a wide variety of tips and tactics. You probably already have proposal guides on your shelf. Do you need another one? It is always good to get several points of view and in that spirit, we recommend this one as a current source. It is always somewhat of a gamble of time expended vs. success rate. Perhaps your strategy these days for grants where thousands will be applying is to concentrate on the small ones in the local community. One teacher librarian told me that he was a “bottom feeder” and was successful year after year with the small grants the lots of folks did not both to apply, so his odds were higher and he was successful at bringing in thousands and thousands of dollars. Get smart. These authors have good advice. Take it and use it.… (altro)