GRANTCRAFT

Strong grant practice begins before the proposal is written—and continues long after an award is made.

Grantcraft is a comprehensive guide to strategic funding practice across the full grant lifecycle. It begins with disciplined decisions about funding opportunities, organizational readiness, feasibility, program design, evidence, budgets, partnerships, and evaluation. It then moves through proposal development, submission, award acceptance, implementation, reporting, stewardship, closeout, and ethical responsibility.

Substantially expanded for its second edition, Grantcraft is designed for professionals and students working across public service, healthcare, nonprofit organizations, higher education, and related fields. It combines strategic analysis with practical application, helping readers understand not only how to prepare a competitive proposal, but how to make sound funding decisions, design credible programs, manage awards responsibly, and sustain the trust on which successful grantmaking depends.

Throughout the book, readers encounter applied frameworks, realistic examples, academic discussion questions, practitioner exercises, and extended assignments that connect grant strategy to real organizational decisions.

The second edition of Grantcraft builds on the practical foundation of the original book while substantially expanding its treatment of strategic funding practice across the full grant lifecycle. The result is a broader and more integrated resource for professionals, students, and organizations that must not only pursue funding, but also make sound decisions about readiness, program design, implementation, accountability, and
stewardship.

Among the major additions and expansions are:

• A deeper treatment of grant feasibility and organizational readiness, including a structured feasibility process that helps organizations determine when to pursue an opportunity, pursue with conditions, build capacity before applying, or decline.
• A new chapter on designing and writing grants with specialized and priority populations, with focused attention to voice, access, participation, representation, accountability, and the design of programs that respond meaningfully to the communities they are intended to serve.
• Expanded integration of program design, budgets, logic models, and evaluation, helping readers understand how these elements must align rather than function as separate proposal components.
• A new chapter on artificial intelligence and grant development, examining responsible uses of AI for research, drafting, analysis, verification, and workflow support while emphasizing professional judgment, source integrity, confidentiality, and accountability.
• Substantially expanded treatment of submission, award acceptance, grant management, stewardship, and closeout, extending the book well beyond proposal writing into the responsibilities that follow an award.
• A more developed ethics framework for grant practice, including principles and decision tools for navigating issues of integrity, representation, data use, consent, accountability, and responsible stewardship.
• Richer academic and practitioner learning materials throughout the book, including discussion questions, application exercises, and extended assignments designed to connect the text to real organizational decisions and professional practice.
• A companion-resource ecosystem, including downloadable tools, worksheets, model materials, and selected instructional resources designed to extend the use of the book beyond the printed page.

The second edition is not simply about writing stronger proposals. It is about practicing grant development as a disciplined, ethical, and strategically integrated form of professional work—from the first funding decision through final stewardship and closeout.

The first edition of Grantcraft established the book’s practical foundation: helping readers understand how to approach grant development strategically, connect program design to funding priorities, and prepare stronger proposals.

The second edition preserves that foundation while substantially extending the work. Readers who already own the first edition will find deeper treatment of feasibility and organizational readiness; a new chapter on specialized and priority populations; expanded integration of budgets, logic models, and evaluation; a new chapter on artificial intelligence and grant development; and much fuller coverage of submission, award acceptance, grant management, stewardship, closeout, and ethics.

The result is a more comprehensive treatment of the grant lifecycle—from deciding whether an opportunity should be pursued through the responsibilities that continue after an award is made.

A special second-edition purchase option for first-edition readers is planned following publication. Additional details will be posted here when available.