Location: Architecture & Art
A guide to grant applications for arts organizations and individual artists.

Location: Architecture & Art Reference [non-circulating]
Includes time-tested strategies, anecdotes from successful grant writers, and tips from grant officers and fundraising specialists. Targeted at both professional and aspiring artists who need concrete information about how to write winning grant applications and fundraise creatively.

Location: Oak Street Library [request online]
Includes a detailed examination of external funding opportunities and grant/fellowship proposal writing strategies. We also have online access to the 1994 version of this handbook (see below).

Some of the funding opportunities listed in this edition are out of date, but the grant/fellowship proposal writing strategies are still relevant.

Grant Writing For Dummies draws on over four decades of experience writing grant applications and training grant writers to deliver a comprehensive and easy-to-follow roadmap to drafting and submitting grant applications that get funded. You'll learn to craft the strongest application possible, find the best sources of funding from online databases, and present a realistic project budget plan.