The "Of Course" Factor: A Guide to Meaningful Grant Writing - Softcover

Welch, Allison

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798997517601

Publisher: Spark the Fire Press, 2026

Synopsis

What makes a funder read a proposal and think, “Of course this should be funded”?

That moment is not accidental. It is strategic.

The Of Course Factor introduces a clear, practical framework for writing grant proposals that are aligned, compelling, and fundable. Instead of relying on templates alone or chasing funding without direction, you will learn how to design proposals that connect meaningful work with what funders are truly seeking.

This book walks you step by step through the full grant writing process — from researching opportunities and organizing your materials to crafting letters of inquiry, full proposals, budgets, and reports. Along the way, you will learn how to ground your case in strong community insight, build logical program design, develop budgets that reinforce your narrative, and communicate with funders in ways that build long term trust.

Grant writing is more than paperwork. It is the disciplined art of translating meaningful impact into a proposal so clear and strategic that funding makes sense.

This is strategic grant writing for meaningful impact.

About this title

About the Author

Allison Welch, M.Ed., GPC, is the author of The "Of Course" Factor: A Guide to Meaningful Grant Writing and the founder and CEO of Spark the Fire Grant Writing Classes, LLC. Spark the Fire is an internationally recognized professional development provider that has trained more than 7,000 individuals from nonprofit, Tribal, government, and educational organizations across all fifty states and globally. Allison is an approved trainer with the Grant Professionals Association, and Spark the Fire is an approved provider for both the Grant Professionals Certification Institute and CFRE International. She brings more than 25 years of grant writing and nonprofit management experience to her work, along with advanced studies in brain-based learning for adults.Allison's training is grounded in her own track record as a practitioner. Her funded proposals include awards from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, HRSA, and SAMHSA. She also serves as a grant reviewer for foundations and government entities, and what she learns there continually sharpens her training. She is a former adjunct professor of grant writing at several universities and a frequent speaker at national conferences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spark the Fire Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798997517601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348