The Authors.

Introduction.

1 Demonstrating the Fit: Making First and Lasting Impressions.

2 Disorganized Proposals: Bringing Order to the Chaos.

3 The Case of the Missing Needs Statement: Honing the Heart of the Proposal.

4 Too Much of a Good Thing: Taming the Statistician.

5 Evaluation: Making Sure the Proposal Measures Up.

6 Budgets: Telling Your Story in Dollars and Cents.

7 Proposal Length: The Long and Short of It.

8 Split Personality: What Happens When There’s More Than One Writer.

9 Florid Writing: When Proposals Go Over the Top.

10 The “Mystery” Proposal: Making Sense of Nonsense.

11 The Perfect Package.

Mission Accomplished: Transformation Complete.

Resource A: Checklist for a Memorandum of Understanding.

Resource B: Grantmakers Responding to Our Survey.

Index.