Jane Geever's classic work from the Foundation Center is now available as free audiobook. Listen to any chapter or download the entire book as a single mp3 file.

This Foundation Center and the European Foundation Centre partnership (begun in February 2011) is a compendium of practical tools for grant makers to develop their skills. Most guides, cases, and tools can be downloaded free.

Created by S. Joseph Levine at Michigan State, this guide provide writing tips and samples of each step in putting a proposal together. Also provides a list of the best books on writing a proposal and links to other well regarded proposal writing sites.

This document provides an excellent overview of grant proposals and nice definitions of philanthropy and types of foundations.