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This all-in-one resource for researching library and school grants is back in a new edition, and more useful than ever, offering refreshed content and even more guidance on locating grant funding sources.

Covers Finding grants relevant to libraries; Obtaining solicited competitive grant application packages; Pre-proposal research, management, writing style; assembly, editing, review, and submission; Post-proposal, pre-award marketing; Contract award and project management.

A first of its kind, this book provides you everything you need to know about successfully navigating the grant writing process including understanding the language of grant writing, finding grants, preparing the proposal, completing the application, preparing budgets, organizing information and timelines, revising and editing the proposal, including the assessment and evaluation, and building meaningful relationships with program officers and colleagues.

To stay competitive, investigators must understand the funding environment and know how to translate their hypotheses into research grant applications that reviewers evaluate as having scientific merit. This is the only book of its kind written by federal research investigators which provides technical assistance for researchers applying for biobehavioral and psychosocial research funding and can give them an edge in this competitive environment. Learn how to: determine research opportunities and priorities, develop the different elements of an application, negotiate the electronic submission and review processes, and disseminate the findings.