PRDV009: Writing Grant Proposals

Government agencies, corporations, foundations, and trusts award grants to help organizations fund specific projects they will administer. These grant-funded projects are often awarded competitively for a fixed period to support the causes or programs the sponsor and grant recipient share. In other words, the grantor and the grantee form a partnership to further their shared missions and goals during the grant period.

For example, grant funding provides educational opportunities, library services, technology support, and healthcare training to community members who live in the service area of the grant recipient. Grant funding supports planning and implementing projects, scientific research, disease prevention, music, the arts, and countless other services to communities nationwide and worldwide. Some government agencies, corporations, foundations, and charitable trusts award grants to nonprofit organizations that will, in turn, administer a competitive grant program to their constituents.