application was given describing the research No fund-raising technique is as effective as a personal presentation, a detailed discussion be· techniques, pre-application negotiations with the tween the applicant and the potential funder of granting agency, and the strong features of the the proposed activity held before the written re written application that contributed to its success. quest is submitted. If, during the discussion, the Examples that have appeared and continue to appear in GRANTS MAGAZINE were sug presentation is made effectively, the chance of success is immeasurably greater and the final gested or contributed by many people, among preparation of the application is comparatively them the magazine's editors, editorial board members, and their colleagues, friends, and easier. It is not, unfortunately, always possible to associates many of whom are successful grantees make a personal presentation. In many, actually or administrators of grant programs. It became most, cases the only form of contact the applicant clear from the number of reprint requests for the has with the funding organization is the written Grant Clinic feature that a compendium of some request. And even in those cases where there has examples that had appeared there would make a been extensive discussion, there always comes a time useful reference volume containing exemplary when a request must be presented in writing in some form. applications.

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I. Research Grants.- A Successful Grant Application to the National Institutes of Health.- A Proposal to Study the Differentiation and Physiology of a Neuroblastoma: A Successful Research Grant Application Submitted to the National Institutes of Health.- Research Grant Budget: Preparation and Justification in Relation to the Proposed Research.- The History of the Inflation-Recession Proposal.- The Unique Opportunity (Comment on the Proposal).- The Impact of Inflation-Recession on Families in Cities.- The History of the Engineering Ethics Study Funded by NSF.- Engineering Ethics in Organizational Contexts: A Formal Proposal to the National Science Foundation's Program on Ethics and Values in Science and Technology.- II. Training Grants.- Henry Street Settlement's Youth Employment Training Program Proposal.- History of the Proposal: A Comment.- Description and Rationale for Proposed M.S. Degree Training Program in Applied Social Research in Crime and Delinquency Programs.- Developing a Graduate Program in Health Advocacy.- Comments on the Health Advocates Proposal.- III. The Arts.- Adding Excitment to Your Proposals.- The Opera Participation ProjectInvolving Bay Area Yourth in Vocal Arts.- NEA Support for the Small Arts Project.- The Film Fund: What It Is and What It Does.- On the March.- The History of the Living Stage Theatre Company Proposal.- A Proposal to Work With Incarcerated Men and Women from the Living Stage Theatre Company.- IV. The Humanities.- History of the Proposal.- NEH Pilot Grant - Columbus College Proposal for a Three-Quarter Sequence of Interdisciplinary Humanities Courses for General Students.- Grantmaking at the National Endowment for the Humanities.- Critique of Interdisciplinary Humanities Proposal.- V. Federal Contracts.- Request for aProposal: Solicitation for a Federal Contract.- VI. Foundations and Corporations.- The Preliminary Letter.