Nationwide, budgets are under significant pressure. Despite the challenges, the United States Government has made available billions of dollars in funds to support or create programs, which can breathe life back into crippled budgets.
The presentation of an organized, logical proposal is the most effective means of communicating to a reviewer the details of the proposed work and the organizational skills of the investigator.
Putting Your Idea to Work! No matter how good your ideas or noble your intentions, you must translate them into a specific, sensible set of activities in order to get funding. Potential sponsors must know what you actually plan to do in order to determine whether investing in your project represents an effective use of their resources.
This guidebook for proposal writing should only be used as general guidelines. The specific content of many proposals will be outlined in RFP’s (request for proposals), RFQ’s (request for quotes, or PS’s (proposal solicitations). Always consider these as the overriding guidelines. In fact, many of these documents are very literal and specific in the content they ask for. Proposals can often be written by simply following the guidance given in the RFP.
