Tips Writing grant proposals to get money to make your project happen is becoming more and more common. Talk to those who got funded and ask for advice and ideally copies of their successful grants. Read the current guidelines for those foundations on what they will fund and when the grants are due.
Foundations often shift their focus, and timing can be very important.
Watch for timing-sensitive opportunities. Collect sample successful grants to use as boilerplate models. Many foundations will send you, on request, proposals from past funded projects, or at least will give you the addresses of past grant recipients, so you can ask them directly for copies of successful proposals. The more good proposals you read, the more you'll understand how clear writing and following guidelines leads to funding. Use the same terms in your proposal that the foundation used to describe what they want to fund.