Resources

Looking for practical information on project advancement and proposal writing? Here are a few “one pagers” you can easily use to create more effective proposals.

This basic five-point checklist is useful when starting on a funding proposal. Asking yourself these questions before you begin will save time and effort.
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Deadlines, complex subject areas, support documents and meeting criteria are just a few of the challenges in writing proposals. This quick one pager of ten tips to take the stress out of proposal writing may give you a well deserved breather.
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• Stanford Social Innovation Review
• The Happy Healthy Nonprofit
• The Fundraising Coach

• Imagine Canada (formerly Canadian Centre for Philanthropy)
• Community Foundations of Canada
• U.S. National Council of Nonprofits
• Council on Foundations
• Grant Professionals Association
• Association of Fundraising Professionals

• FundRazr
• CBC Interview with Daryl Hatton Founder and CEO of FundRazr
• FundRazr’s Crowdfunding Success Guide
• InvestLocalBC
• Rodrigo Davies
• Canada Business (Federal government article on crowdfunding and regulations)
• National Crowd Funding Association-U.S.
• National Crowdfunding Association of Canada
• UK Crowdfunding Association

•  Daphne Gray-Grant’s–super supportive site for writers-  Publication Coach 

• Foundation Center
• Guide Star
• Imagine Canada Grant Connect
• Grant Station

• Canada federal grants
• Grant Portal Ontario
• Civic Info BC
• Charity Village

• U.S. Grants.Gov
• U.S Department of Education
• Federal Student Aid
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

• Council on Foundations Global Grantmaking   

• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
• Take the Lead Grant

• Skoll Foundation
• Vancouver Foundation

• Hawaii Community Foundation
• Atherton Family Foundation
• The Dickinson Foundation

• Charity Village

• Guidestar