Grant Proposal Writing
Description
- Identifying and writing to the “right” audience
- Creating and using a purpose statement to focus writing
- Employing and understanding “bottom line up front” (BLUF) to quickly convey critical messages to high level audiences
- Key elements of Technical Writing for the Real World: understanding and using plain language, grammar and punctuation essentials, simplification processes, sentence and paragraph management, using bullets, creating detailed outlines
- The Cs and Rs of effective proposals
- What makes proposals effective: Why proposals win and why they lose
- How to analyze solicitation documents: RFPs, Statements of Work (SOW), Performance Work Statement (PWS), Scope of Services (SOS), Request for Quotation or Qualifications (RFQ),Invitation for Bid (IFB), Terms of Reference (TOR), and other solicitation documents
- Coping with a poorly written/unclear RFP
- Understanding how to create a requirements compliance table
- Developing a proposal layout aligned with solicitation document(s) and outline
- Detailed analysis of a sample solicitation document
- Annotating and adding detail to outline to use as planning, writing, and management tool
- 40-50%of session is practical applications by participants