• Project, operating, capital, and challenge grants
• Ways to keep your grant from being rejected out of hand
In this and the next four chapters, you learn a lot about the meaning of the word grant and the people and institutions that make grants. This is not just background. This is context, the gestalt of grant writing and grantmaking. An understanding of what lies behind the grant process is key to successful grant writing, or maybe I should say, successful grant getting. So let’s learn some grant basics.