USE ACTION VERBS IN WRITING GRANTS
Ready to write. Wait just a second. Make sure your proposal will include a good description of what you hope to accomplish with the grant funds. The use of action verbs might do the trick.
Remember that a proposal should include “action verbs” especially when describing your goals, objectives, activities and outcomes. Try using some of these when you write your next proposal.
| achieve | distribute | grapple | judge | organize | record | start |
| address | do | grow | jump | oversee | recruit | steer |
| administer | draft | handle | launch | pack | reduce | step |
| advance | draw | haul | lead | page | refer | study |
| advise | ease | head | lean | pass | regain | submit |
| allocate | edit | help | leap | pause | rejoin | summarize |
| analyze | elevate | hold | learn | perceive | relate | supply |
| approach | emerge | hurtle | lecture | perform | render | support |
| attain | endure | identify | left | persuade | report | synthesize |
| built | engage | illustrate | level | pick | represent | tackle |
| communicate | establish | implement | listen | pile | research | take |
| compile | estimate | improve | log | pitch | respond | tap |
| complete | evaluate | inch | maintain | plan | restore | target |
| compose | examine | increase | make | play | review | teach |
| conduct | expand | indict | manage | rise | test | |
| consolidate | explain | induce | measure | polish | save | thread |
| coordinate | extend | inflict | mediate | predict | schedule | threaten |
| create | file | inject | meet | prepare | score | train |
| decide | finance | insert | mentor | prescribe | search | transfer |
| deduct | find | inspect | mobilize | process | select | translate |
| define | fix | install | motivate | produce | serve | try |
| delegate | force | instigate | move | program | shape | turn |
| delineate | formulate | institute | negotiate | project | sharpen | understand |
| deliver | found | interchange | observe | promote | shield | undertake |
| describe | furnish | interpret | obtain | propel | shift | unfold |
| design | gain | interview | occupy | provide | signal | unite |
| determine | gather | invent | offer | read | solve | utilize |
| develop | generate | inventory | officiate | realize | spread | watch |
| direct | get | investigate | operate | receive | spring | withdraw |
| discover | give | isolate | order | recommend | stand | work |
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April 3, 2011 - 11:32 pm
Really appreciate the tips you given for writing proposals, It has added so much knowledge for me to write my next proposal.