The updated Sixth Edition of the best-selling Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship for Funding offers a fresh， robust presentation of the basics of program design and proposal writing for community services funding。 Authors Soraya M。 Coley， Cynthia A。 Scheinberg， and new co-author Yulia A。 Levites Strekalova help readers develop the knowledge they need to understand community agencies， identify and describe community needs， identify funding sources， develop a viable program evaluation， prepare a simple line-item budget， and write a compelling need statement。 The jargon-free， step-by-step presentation makes the book as useful to students in the university classroom as to first-time grant writers in the nonprofit setting。 The new edition adds activities that can be done individually or in class to build students' skills and apply the chapter material。