Grant Writing Guidelines

A General Note To All

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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
  • 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

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• Grants should can concentrate on three any combination of four areas
  • Research
  • Plant Construction
  • Salaries of AguaClara Engineers Abroad
    • These salaries can be included in the plant cost
      ** Design Work

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