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FREE Grant Writing Tutorial Available

The Environmental Protection Agency has developed an interactive software tool that takes you step-by-step through the grant writing process, and helps teach you how to write more competitive grants. The tutorial includes proposal writing tips, examples of complete grant packages, and a mock grant writing activity where you can compare your results to a successful grant application. For details, visit: http://www.filtersfast.com/EPA-Grant-Writing-Tutorial.asp

Grant Directories

Would your organization benefit from a funding directory listing over 500 national foundations giving specifically to your organization's current needs? These directories target private, public, community and corporate foundations specifically giving to:
Annual Support Campaigns
Capitol/Building Campaigns
General Operating Support
You will find the fundraising and management headlines in their customized Nonprofit News Feed Portal from their Metabase of more than 2,700 online sources. This is not a free service, but you can get it free for one month. http://www.chasebrooke.com/main.htm

Ed Info Mailing List Ed Info keeps you up-to-date on new grant notices, reports and other information from the U.S. Department of Education. http://www.ed.gov/fund/contract/apply/instruct.html

ERIC Fact sheet on funding sources: http://ericec.org/fact/grants.html

ICI U of MN web site of funding sources: http://ici.umn.edu/relatedresources/fundingsources.html

Grant Writing Statistics
The newly published 2000 census report provides a wealth of data and statistics to document proposal needs. You'll find state and national data, detailed tables, rankings, comparisons, summaries, projections, income, poverty, genealogy, state profiles, economic census information, minority links, and much more. Log on at http://www.census.gov

Grant Writing Reference Tool
A new reference tool is available that provides everything from classic dictionary and thesaurus references to quotes and works of literature, as well as a searchable version of Strunk & White's classic "Elements of Style." If your computer has speakers, you'll even find an audio pronunciation guide. Log on at http://www.bartleby.com

K-12 Funding Opportunities
Provides a great list of websites and resources geared toward funding K-12 projects. Provided by the Foundation Center whose mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grant seekers succeed. Log on at: http://fdncenter.org/funders/

Abe's E-Mail Reports - Grants Report
A free daily report that lists RFPs in the Federal Register, various State RFPs and information about Foundation grants. Send email to abes-free-grant-reports-subscribe@grants.biglist.com for free subscription or go to Abe's Grant Report. http://grants.biglist.com/abes-free-grant-reports/

Source: Reference Points: Transition updates from the TATRA Project

Reference Points is administered by PACER Center, www.pacer.org, as a joint technical assistance activity of the TATRA Project and the National Center on Secondary Education and Transition, http://www.ncset.org/. Reference Points features resources and updates to help parent organizations, advocates and professionals better serve adolescents and young adults with disabilities, and their families. You can subscribe or unsubscribe to Reference Points on the web at http://www.pacer.org/tatra/list/signup.asp

Questions about Reference Points should be directed to Deborah Leuchovius, National Coordinator of Technical Assistance on Transition and Vocational Rehabilitation, PACER Center at tatra@pacer.org.

The National Center on Secondary Education and Transition is funded by and is a partner with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, cooperative agreement # H326J000005. The TATRA Project is funded by the Rehabilitation Services Administration http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/rsa/index.html?src=mr

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