Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Is Your Museum Grant Ready? (American Association for State & Local History)

Grant funding is a critical part of museum life, yet to many it seems mysterious. This second edition of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? is your guide to assessing readiness to attract grants, understanding how grant funders work, learning how to design highly-fundable projects and programs, and writing and submitting proposals. The author's tips, charts, models, and examples will help you create a manageable and rewarding grant program, or update and strengthen your present program. How can grants strengthen your institution? How do you know if your institution is ready to win grants? How do you know where to apply? What can you do to improve your chances of winning a grant? How has the world of grant funding changed? Every zoo, garden, aquarium, museum and historic site finds itself asking these questions when considering grant funding to expand or improve programs, broaden its reach, or simply maintain its existing level of performance. Here are your answers. Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? is invaluable to museums and informal learning institutions, and to students studying museum work. Review "Ready, Set, Go," this book will help museum staff from directors to collections managers and board members to conquer grant-writing jitters. In clear engaging language Sutton offers guidance for museums small and large. Act on her advice and use her writing style to achieve your funding goals. Her thoughtful lessons apply to grant-writing and to good organizational thinking/planning, too.--Mary Alexander, co-director, Museum Scholarship and Material Culture, University of Maryland Sarah Sutton's second edition of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? continues her approach to offering solid, practical advice about raising funds from granting sources, be they private and community foundations or local, state and federal governments. With extensive real-life examples of how museums build successful funding relationships, along with new insider information from museum and funder staff, Sutton provides easy-to-understand, step-by-step guidance for making the best funding match, building funder relationships, developing the most compelling funding request, and managing successful awards.--Anne W. Ackerson, former executive director, Council of State Archivists and the Museum Association of New York Sutton has done it again with this second edition. She offers step-by-step methodology to ensure grant writing success for any museum budget size. If you follow her advice, I guarantee your museum will be sure-footed for each grant application. Sutton knows this field and knows how to attract grant makers to your cause.--Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, president & CEO, Abbe Museum About the Author Sarah Sutton leads Sustainable Museums, a consultancy in grant program development and environmental sustainability for museums, zoos, gardens, aquariums and historic sites. She has nearly 30 years of experience focused on strategic grants program development. She coaches and consults nationally and internationally, and teaches online. She helps clients strategically design or redesign their pursuit of grant funds and sustain a year-round grants pipeline. In her webinars, conference presentations, and individual consulting, she helps all levels of proposal writers prepare excellent proposals to support their institutions' missions.