About this grant guide
We hope to introduce grant application writing to individual scholars who have an idea or research plan but may not be sure how to get started with finding funding and applying to that funding program.
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We’ve developed a grant-writing guide that has been designed to serve individuals seeking independent project research funding. In actuality, our guide is more like a context-setting guide and a brainstorming tool. Because every grant proposal is different, we offer guiding questions and some strategies for approaching your application document itself. Hint: lots of planning and thinking is involved.
We’ve organized the application-writing process into three primary stages that best encompass how to get started. These can be navigated via the top toolbar. Likewise, we have a few links that send you away from our guide for more comprehensive advice on project planning. Also featured are some annotated examples of a call for applications as well as one applicant’s response where we tease out why that application was successful (and why it does not serve as a model).
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This guide was created by members of Georgetown University's Public Sphere Writing graduate course as part of the English M.A. program:
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Sophia Grabiec
Seth Canada
Chris Kenny
Jessie Ford Yeyeodu
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