Grant Writing Tips: Before You Start Writing Anything Read This!

Grant Writing Tips: Before You Start Writing Anything Read This!

GrantWritingOnlineCourse.com – So you want to write a grant proposal? Congratulations! You are seeking a noble task, but why do you want to write a grant in the first place? Have you ever written a grant before? Do you know the rules and guidelines you are supposed to follow? Do you know where to send the grant proposal once you have written it? What should you ask for and not ask for on your grant? Are you trying to write a grant for a nonprofit organization, your business, or an individual? All of these are important questions must be considered before ever embarking on the journey to write a grant. Here are a few tips to help keep you from wasting a lot of time and unnecessary energy.

Do not go at grant writing alone and make unnecessary mistakes when you can learn from others.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in grant writing is by just blindly deciding to write a grant proposal without any training. At the very least, read a good grant writing book or take a grant writing course. This will save you hours of time and energy and help you avoid many of the common mistakes that new grant writers often make. Remember, even the Lone Ranger had his faithful sidekick, Tonto, and his horse Silver.

One of the best ways to learn grant writing is by simply doing it with a bit of coaching in the process.
Grant writing is a skill that must be developed. However, just like any building you want to make sure you lay a solid foundation to build upon. So be sure to get real life experience by working on an actual grant proposal while also learning how to write grants the correct way from the very beginning. This is often best done when you have a grant writing sample or a template to start from instead of going at it totally from scratch. It will also be important to have a mentor or a coach that has been successful in securing grant monies to be a sounding board for you to help assist you when you get stuck or have questions. Coaching can come in many different forms, for instance, you can learn by reading articles, books, attending workshops, or grant trainings. You can also seek out an experienced grant writer who might be willing to coach you through the process.

Make a commitment to learn grant writing the correct way and volunteer to write a few for some nonprofit organizations in your area. Nonprofit organizations tend to really love grant writers and these individuals are often in high demand. If you volunteer to write a grant for a local nonprofit in your area some of them might have a previous proposal on hand that you can glean from as you develop a new one. This will allow you to get some real life experience while also helping an organization possibly get funded. It is worth noting that most grants are not given out to individuals or to for-profit businesses. Don’t believe all the hype and sensationalism from those late night commercials and waste your money and time.

Remember, the best investment you can make to learn grant writing is to make an investment into you. If you are really going to become a skilled grant writer you must dedicate the appropriate time, energy, and resources into developing this valuable skill set. So sign up today for a training that can help you cultivate or enhance your craft as a grant writer. There are many grant writing tutorials and online grant training to help you learn this wonderful skill, so take advantage of these and get the assistances and help you need.

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Jon Lukomnik Joins The Governance Fund, LLC

Jon Lukomnik Joins The Governance Fund, LLC











Jon Lukomnik


Northfield, Minn. (PRWEB) January 6, 2010

The Governance Fund, LLC, a private investment management firm, today announced that Jon Lukomnik, the founder and managing partner of Sinclair Capital, LLC, has joined the Investment Committee of The Governance Fund, LLC, and will serve on its Board of Directors.

Lukomnik brings an extensive background in asset management, both in the private and public sectors. Prior to forming Sinclair, he worked as deputy comptroller for New York City, where he served as the investment advisor for the city’s defined benefit pension plans, which encompassed over $ 80 billion in assets. During his tenure, the city’s pension funds materially outperformed the average large pension fund in America. He is a co-founder of the International Corporate Governance Network and a former chair of the Executive Committee of the Council of Institutional Investors. He currently serves as a director for Sears Canada, where he chairs the investment committee; as a trustee for the Van Eck family of mutual funds and investment trusts; and as a member of the International Advisory Board of NYSE-Euronext.

“We are delighted that someone with Jon’s stature and experience is joining our leadership team,” said David R. Koenig, chief executive officer of The Governance Fund, LLC. “He brings wonderful insights to our investment process and his particular interest in defining and quantifying good corporate governance makes him an ideal match for our company.”

Lukomnik commented, “Good corporate governance is important to individual companies, and also to the economy as a whole. The Governance Fund, LLC’s investment process is designed to allow investors the potential to realize outsized gains from the different return patterns of well- and poorly governed companies.”

Lukomnik is co-author of the award-winning “The New Capitalists” (Harvard Business School Press, 2006). He is the program director of the IRRC Institute (Investor Responsibility Research Center), which sponsors research on corporate governance and investor practices. In addition, Lukomnik was a founder and initial board member of GovernanceMetrics International, a corporate governance rating service.

The Governance Fund, LLC, a private investment management firm, uses a proprietary model to differentiate well-governed publicly-traded companies from those which are poorly-governed and seeks to capture the hidden investment value from this knowledge. The Governance Fund, LLC, offers both a long/short market-neutral strategy and a long/short relative return strategy to its clients.

For more information, please contact The Governance Fund, LLC, at 507.301.3149 or e-mail info(at)thegovfund(dot)com.

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