This work offers practical guidance to successful grantseeking. It contains specific advice about organizing the grantseeking process and helps readers develop a grantseeking system that can be used each time they apply for a grant.

TAKE THE FIVE STEPS TO BECOME A FEARLESS GRANT SEEKER

In Demystifying Grant Seeking, authors Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown offer down-to-earth advice on implementing an effective grant-seeking process based on the art of fearless grant seeking. Written for nonprofit professionals and fundraisers--no matter what their level of expertise--this hands-on resource outlines a five-step program that will help to dispel myths, overcome fears, and lead to grant-seeking success. Using the suggestions outlined in Demystifying Grant Seeking fundraisers will:

• Learn about their organizations, communities, and funders
• Match requests to funders
• Invite funders to invest in their organizations
• Follow up both internally with funders
• Evaluate results, methods, and opportunities

"At last! A practical, hands-on--and most importantly, realistic--guide to the entire grantsmanship process. Unlike so many how-to guidebooks which promise what they cannot deliver, while propagating the myth that successful grants require nothing more than a 'winning proposal, ' Demystifying Grant Seeking correctly places the proposal in its proper context alongside the 'other 90 percent of the process' that funders truly consider. As a former foundation program officer, I heartily recommend Demystifying Grant Seeking!"

--Marilyn L. Gross, president, Educational Funding Strategies, Ltd., and publisher, THE INTERNET INSIDER--for Grantseekers & Fundraisers