To Help You Write a Proposal

"Using a Gender Lens Approach to Grantmaking"
This background paper was written to assist grant applicants to better understand the focus of WFRI's grantmaking program. It encourages prospective grant seekers to ask themselves a number of questions concerning their project or program to help determine if it "fits" with the goals of the Women's Fund.

Resource guide of effective girls programming models
In the fall of 2003, The Women's Fund of Rhode Island and The Rhode Island Foundation contracted with the Swearer Center for Public Service and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center at Brown University to develop an accessible resource guide for community organizations of effective girls programming models from across the country.  The guide includes proposed and existing extra-curricular programs that approach working with girls from a variety of angles.  It is intended to help those in Rhode Island who propose girls' programming to more readily be able to access and assess programs that have been developed and that have worked.

Foundation Giving Trends: Update on Funding Priorities. Report identifies year 2000 trends in charitable giving and includes data on giving by topic area (health, education, environment, etc.), regional trends, and support for specific demographics, such as children and the poor. Available free in PDF from the Foundation Center website, www.fdncenter.org/research.

RI Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals
Training workshops in grant writing and other areas of fundraising.

Corporate and Foundation Fund raising
by Eugene Scanlan.
Book originally published by Aspen Publishers and rights now owned by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.

The Grantsmanship Center
The world's leader in grant information

The Grantsmanship Center Magazine

The Grants Information Center
Find books, periodicals, pamphlets and a sampling of videos on fundraising, proposal writing and philanthropy.

Learning Lab: A Proposal Writing Short Course

Guide for Writing A Funding Proposal

Life Cycle of a Public Charity
From the IRS, information, explanations, guides, forms and publications on such topics as filing an application for recognition of tax-exempt status, filing required annual information returns, and making changes in mission and purpose.