Writing Proposals Search Facility
To Find Best Proposal Writing Info

This writing proposals search facility has expert tips to help you find authentic information on proposal writing. Whether it's for grant writing or business proposals, search for it here.

Try various combinations of words like grants, proposals, government grants, federal government grants, writing proposals, write winning proposals, starting a business, small business, etc.

In addition to the suggested proposal writing keywords, use your own specific keywords, such as geographical location, visible minority, disabled, veteran, etc.

Change the keywords you use in your search in order to narrow or expand it. For example, if you start with "writing business proposals," you can narrow it to "writing small business proposals." Expand your search by using "writing proposals" or "business proposals."

What NOT to Do

There's a lot of misleading advertising out there. As a result, many inexperienced funding seekers think that money grows on trees and all they have to do is go and pluck it off the branches.

Although there is a lot of money out there, and you can access it under certain conditions, here are some simple things you should NOT do:

• Do NOT think you can get a grant with only a couple hours of work. Just finding a source of funding may take anywhere from 4-20 hours.
• Do NOT limit yourself to Internet searching. Once you've found a few likely sources, get on the phone with them and make sure you have a project that meets THEIR objectives.
• Do NOT seek one source of funding for several projects. Stay clearly focused on one project.
• Do NOT seek funding to pay off your debts. As they say in New York City... Don't even think about doing this!

That last one is probably the biggest NO-NO of all. If you tell funding sources that you want $50,000 to start a business and they suspect that you'll use most of the money to pay off your debts, they'll slam the door in your face.

Some More Tips

Here's some more great advice from the experts on writing grants and getting funding.

• A source of funding is not always a government grant or subsidy. It could also be a bank loan or venture capital. It could also simply be the free advice offered by organizations like the US Small Business Administration or Canada's Strategis service.
• Sources of funding may be geography-specific. What's offered in one part of the country may NOT be available elsewhere, so use your location as one of the keywords in your search.
• Funding may be federal, state, county, municipal or private. Your search will reveal this information.
• More funding may be available for certain groups of people - minorities, women, handicapped, etc. Using related keywords in your search will help identify such special sources.
• Once your Internet search has identified some potential sources of funding, phone them up to be sure a particular program is still operating and funds are still available. Find out what the application procedure is and what the proposal evaluation criteria are.
• Use our training program to (a) help locate sources of funding, (b) learn how to write a winning proposal and (c) get personal coaching.

Follow all our search advice to maximize your chances of getting a government grant or winning a business deal.