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Contact Information:
Kathleen Tweeten, Director, Center for Community Vitality
2718 Gateway Ave.,
Ste 104
Bismarck, ND 58503
Ph: 701.328.9718
Fax: 701.328.9721

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Resources

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Web Sites
http://dorgan.senate.gov/services/grantresourcecenter.cfm

Books

Grant Writing: Strategies for Developing Winning Proposals

by: Patrick William Miller
Pub. Date: August 2002
Publisher: Patrick W. Miller and Associates

Grant Writing: Strategies for Developing Winning Proposals walks funding seekers through the phases of grant development. The second edition represents more than 12  years of ideas used to develop winning proposals. The book includes:

  • 8 chapters with clear, concise guidelines for preparing grant applications
  • 270 pages with more than 75 illustrations and examples
  • 130 review questions and answers to stimulate learning
  • 13 grant exercise on proposal writing and budge budget development
  • 95 glossary terms for quick reference
  • 70 up-to-date resources, including web sites

The Only Grant Writing Book You'll Ever Need:
Top Grant Writers and Grant Givers Share Their Secrets!

by: Ellen Karsh and Arlen Sue Fox
Pub. Date: June 2003
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
Format: Paperback, 368pp

Grant writing seems quite straightforward to people who don't need a grant, but very difficult to people who are desperate for funding - especially in this post-9/11 environment of massive budget cuts and urgent need. The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need: An Insider's Guide, written by two authors who have won millions of dollars in grants, provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide for grant writers, de-mystifying the process while offering indispensable advice from funders. This book will show you how to figure out what a grantmaker really wants, and how to make the most effective pitch. For everyone seeking grants - not-for-profit organizations, municipal, county, and state governments, school superintendents, principals, teachers, and boards of education, and people seeking funds for scholarly and cultural projects - this book is just what you're looking for.

Demystifying Grantseeking:
What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants

by: Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown
Pub. Date: August 2001
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover, 272pp

FROM THE PUBLISHER This nuts-and-bolts book covers all the details of effective grant seeking and includes a list of the materials needed to set up an office that is geared for grant-writing success. The book is filled with exercises that will help you learn a new way of operating so you can seek grants with efficiency and integrity.

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To check out these publications or other information, NDSU Agriculture staff may contact the Distribution Center. Books can be checked out for one month, audio and video tapes for two weeks. Stop by NDSU Morrill Hall 10 to find out what else is in the Staff Resource Library.

Morrill Hall, P.O. Box 5655
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105-5655

Phone: 701 231-7882
FAX: 701 231-7044
E-mail:
dctr@ndsuext.nodak.edu