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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.
    ** Many funding organizations have very specific instructions for making contact and they may choose to deny our request if their terms are not followed

AguaClara Goals

• 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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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.

Please refer to How To Write a Good Grant Proposal
*By Barbara Davis

(*http://www.mcf.org/mcf/grant/writing.htm) for more information on Grant writing