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- Grant writing must reflect your passion for your cause, but you must be weary of your audience when doing so.
- Be cautious of over-complication, remember that you probably already know more about the subject than the grant reader.
- If they feel confused or lost, they will put your grant down and pick up a different one.
- However, if the grant is of a technical nature, be sure to include what is necessary. •
- Remember that money is involved, so try to keep your submissions away from an academic style and more tuned to a business style of writing. •
- Go over your grant several times with multiple editors.
- • Be sure you can provide evidence supporting your statements before you put pen to paper, as many organizations look to third parties to verify information.
- • More is less- if you can eliminate three penny or five cent words by replacing it with a good ten or twenty-five cent word, then do so.
- • ALWAYS READ THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THE GRANT
- o This guide should only serve as a general template for grant writing and is by no means a substitute for the instructions provided by the proposals themselves.
AguaClara Goals: •
- Grants should concentrate on three areas
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- Research
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- Plant Construction
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- Salaries of AguaClara Engineers Abroad
- Salaries of AguaClara Engineers Abroad
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- These salaries can be included in the plant cost
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- Change your language in the grant according to which goal you are concentrating on.
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- If it is a Research grant, then the language should be more technical in nature as you can expect the funders to have more knowledge about the subject.
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- If the grant is for Plant Construction, then try to make it less technical and mention more of the direct benefits provided by each AguaClara plant.
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- Be sure to quantify your findings when ever possible (i.e. The AguaClara Plants are designed to reduce water turbidity to less than 1 NTU.)
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- REMEMBER TO HAVE YOUR GRANT PROOFREAD BY SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THE TECHNICAL ASPECT OF THE WRITING AS WELL AS BY INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HAVE A TALENT FOR LANGUAGE.
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Guide:
The following document is an excellent guideline to use when writing a grant. I recommend all potential grant writers to read it over carefully and to look back at it if you are stuck. YOU MAY NOT REPRODUCE THIS CONTENT IN ANYWAY.
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