Successful Grant Writing for School Leaders: 10 Easy Steps - Softcover

Henson, Kenneth T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137072724 ISBN 13: 9780137072729

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

This book breaks grant-writing down into 10 easy steps so school leaders learn how to sharpen their own skills and help others write highly-competitive grants.

 

Stripping away the mystery of grant-writing, Successful Grant Writing for School Leaders: 10 Easy Steps provides a straightforward template for securing more grants for your school and district. Drawing on author Kenneth Henson’s considerable success in this arena, the book outlines a series of steps that involve understanding the funder, identifying the funder’s needs, and crafting proposals to capitalize on each opportunity. Filled with real examples, the book explains the parts of a grant, provides good grant sources, and details ways to ensure a grant gets funded again and again.

 

Hallmark Features

 

• Draws on the authors’ success and experience–which includes over 30 funded grants on a variety of topics from art to physics, ranging from a few thousand to several million dollars. 
• Breaks grant writing down into 10 easy steps–and devotes chapters to the grant-writing process; common grant-writing myths; establishing a grant-writing library; the parts of a grant and how they are developed; constructing an irresistible budget; grant-writing style; good grant sources; the importance of partnerships; and ensuring the grant works and gets refunded.
• Includes a full chapter on the budget (chapter 6)–and shows how to prepare a budget that will tempt any potential funder and convince them that your proposal is the most practical. 
• Shows how to target good grant sources (chapter 8)–and includes grant-finding tips from successful grant writers so readers learn how to identify and secure funding sources.
• Provides examples of real grants written by PK-12 educators in a mix of urban, suburban, and rural schools–so readers can examine the actual grants and hear the author explain in their own words how they learned about the grant opportunities, why they wrote their grants, how each grant helped their schools.
• Offers a list of most frequently used terms and a comprehensive glossary of grant-writing terms (appendix)–that introduce the special language of grant writing. 
• Includes an appendix with a variety of writing-ready tools–such asa glossary of grant terms, several full-blown grants, and grammar exercises to help develop a crisp writing style and avoid the most common grammatical mistakes.

 

About this title

About the Author

 

Ken Henson, both a Fulbright and a National Science Foundation Scholar, is in his tenth year as professor of education at The Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina. The more than 30 funded grants he has authored and contributed to have earned over 100 million dollars; topics ranging from physics and technology to the fine arts. Ken received his bachelor's degree at Auburn University, his master's degree at the University of Florida, and his doctorate at the University of Alabama. He and his wife Sharon live in Sun City, Hilton Head.  Ken enjoys teaching full-time, writing grants and books, giving grant-writing workshops and writing for publication workshops, and ballroom dancing. 

 

From the Back Cover

 

Kenneth T. Henson 

Successful Grant Writing for School Leaders: 10 Easy Steps  

 

Breaks grant-writing down into 10 easy steps so school leaders learn how to sharpen their own skills and help others write highly-competitive grants.

 

Stripping away the mystery of grant-writing, Successful Grant Writing for School Leaders: 10 Easy Steps leaves a straightforward template that shows how to get more grants for your school and district.  Drawing on the authors’ success, the book outlines a series of steps that involve understanding the funder, identifying the funder’s needs, and crafting the proposal to meet those goals. Filled with real examples, chapters explain the parts of a grant, the importance of the budget, good grant sources and ways to ensure a grant gets funded again and again.   

 

The author is very concise on many aspects, using current research and collaborative input into the book.  This text is should become the school leaders grant development bible.  It is informative and can lead any professional development session by inspiring novice grant writers to build on their abilities to become successful grant writers.

 - Scott Roberts, Grant Writer, Laredo ISD, Laredo, Texas

 

Ken Henson, both a Fulbright and a National Science Foundation Scholar, is in his tenth year as professor of education at The Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina. The more than 30 funded grants he has authored and contributed to have earned over 100 million dollars; topics ranging from physics and technology to the fine arts. Ken received his bachelor's degree at Auburn University, his master's degree at the University of Florida, and his doctorate at the University of Alabama. He and his wife Sharon live in Sun City, Hilton Head.  Ken enjoys teaching full-time, writing grants and books, giving grant-writing workshops and writing for publication workshops, and ballroom dancing. 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137072724
• ISBN 13: 9780137072729
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240