1. What considerations should an organization weigh before deciding to pursue grant funding?

2. What are some key characteristics of successful organizations that seek outside (grant) funding?

3. What are some of the strategies mentioned that can help get your project/request funded?

4. Identify some of the common materials that are good to have updated and ready to use to support your grant application? Why is this a good strategy?

5. Why is it important to show community backing or buy in? What are some ways that a proposal can demonstrate this?

6. What are 3 fatal flaws that must be avoided when putting together a proposal?

7. What additional suggestions/recommendations should be done besides just reading the grant application or RFP to improve your chances of getting funded? Where could you look for this information?

8. Why are goals and objectives necessary in the proposal? How are they used?

9. When putting together the project budget what guidance is provided by the authors? What pitfalls should you avoid?

10. With respect to including supplementary materials and/or graphics, what recommendations did the authors suggest? Why?

11. What does capacity mean in the context of proposal writing? Why is this important?