Finding Funding: Grantwriting and Project Management from Start to Finish

This new edition of Finding Funding has been updated to provide the latest insights into the development of grant proposals and project implementation. The authors illustrate various methods of overcoming budget problems which will prove invaluable to not only school administrators, but to anyone writing for a grant.

Following a discussion of how to get started in the grant//project field, the book covers important steps in developing a successful grant application, and project implemention. The authors conclude with a look at some of the problems associated with terminiating a project at the end of external support.

Ernest W. Brewer is Professor and Principal Investigator/Director in the Department of Human Resource Development and Department Head of Child and Family Studies at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). He is currently servinig as the Principal Investigator/Project Director of six federally funded grants.

Charles M. Achilles is Professor of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Eastern Michigan University (EMU). He received his doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Rochester and worked briefly at the (former) U.S. Office of Education, for 21 years at the Bureau of Educational Research and Service, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for 6 years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and since 1994 at EMU.

 

Jay R. Fuhriman is Professor of Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language at Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. He currently directs two undergraduate and one graduate program in bilingual education/ESL. He earned his doctorate degree from Texas A&M University (formerly Texas A&I) in Kingsville, TX, in Curriculum and Instruction and worked as a consultant and teacher prior to joining the teaching staff in 1977.