1. Visit a nonprofit organization in your community to learn about the procedures and processes used there. Explain to your contact at the nonprofit that you are studying proposals for this class and ask if he or she can help you practice some of the prewriting steps for a proposal. Ask your contact to select an issue that he or she would like to apply for grant money to solve. Following the process that Chaya Sotelo used to prepare her proposal, starting on page 376, do the following:

a. List the goals for the proposal (the things the organization would like to have happen as a result of getting the grant).

b. Brainstorm different ways to meet these goals.

c. Analyze each possible solution by listing its positives and negatives.

Offer to share your document with the organization and make sure you thank everyone with whom you worked for his or her time—while you are there and afterwards—by sending a written thank-you note.