I'm in the thick of it every day: writing, reviewing or advising on proposals. Just recently, a proposal of ours swung open the doors to a leading Nigerian bank partnership. It’s these real-life ...

Guide to Winning Proposals II, edited by Judith B. Margolin and Gail T. Lubin, is a collection of 31 grant applications that have elicited praise — and money — from foundations and other grant makers.

It can take weeks to write a grant proposal, so how would it feel to have a machine reject it in seconds? Researchers in Spain have been finding out, after a major funding foundation in the country ...