Re: Proposal writers: Comments or suggestions about proposal writing courses, especially ICI, The Grant Institute

["Deborah Kluge" <dkluge -at- comcast -dot- net>]

Hi Kathleen,

I write proposals for both grants and contracts, and agree with 
what Dick has said.  I have not heard of ICI, but there are many 
good grant-writing workshops around.  The most notable of these 
are the workshops given by the Grantsmanship Center and The 
Foundation Center.
http://www.tgci.com/
http://fdncenter.org/learn/training.html

However, while some of the procedures are the same for both 
for-profit and non-profit organizations, you will end up paying 
for a lot of information that isn't relevant to the for-profit 
environment.

If you're going to be working for a for-profit company and you 
want to get some proposal writing training, you might want to see 
if you can find one of the low-cost proposal workshops that are 
sponsored by the Small Business Administration's Small Business 
Development Centers (SBDCs) and by the Department of Defense 
Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTACs).  Each of these 
centers have local and/or regional offices that frequently give 
inexpensive workshops on proposal development and other subjects. 
Many are given at nearby community colleges and similar venues.
http://www.sba.gov/sbdc/sbdcnear.html
http://www.dla.mil/db/procurem.htm

The most recent posting in my blog contains a little more 
background about these centers.

There are also a number of well-known companies that provide 
proposal workshops geared to the for-profit sector.  Here are a 
few of them:

http://www.fedmarket.com/
http://www.shipleywins.com/
http://www.acibiz.com/index.html

While there are many informative books on the subject, a good 
workshop will give you some hands-on experience as well as the 
all-important context.

Kind Regards,
Deborah

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Deborah L. Kluge       dkluge -at- comcast -dot- net
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