Tips for Preparing Grant Applications - Issues Regarding Similar or Prior Funding

• Follow the Application Guidelines and Directions
• Contacting Program Officers
• Know the Review Criteria
• Know Your Audience
• Clarity of Writing and Organization
• Visual Presentation Counts
• Consider What Might Go Wrong with Your Project
• Accurate Budgets
• Issues Regarding Similar or Prior Funding
  Support of an organization in the past does not guarantee that your current project will be funded again. All applications are reviewed in the context of the evaluation criteria and available funding, and evaluated competitively against other requests. In addition, some agencies only award a single round for a particular project, because they view their function as providing seed-funding. Know the funding agency's intentions.

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