If You’d Like to Read More

If you would like to know more about the Golden Group’s approach to fundraising, you are invited to read the work of Susan L. Golden or the several Golden Group associates who publish.  Here are some representative publications:

By Susan L. Golden:

“The Passionate Principal Investigator or Six Signs to Forecast a Successful Grant Application,” Contributions, December 2003-January 2004.

“Five Phases of the Grantseeking Process,” Contributions, February-March 2004.

 “Excedrin® for Grantseeking Headaches: or When Bad Things Happen to Good Grantseekers,” Contributions, February-March 2003.

 “The Motivated Professional: Secrets of Successful Grant Writers,” Advancing Philanthropy, Jan.-Feb. 2002.

“Manna” Grants or How To Seed the Clouds, Contributions, June-July 2002.

Book Review of Andy Robinson, Grassroots Grants: An Activists’ Guide to Proposal Writing, Jossey-Bass Publishers, August 2002.

“The Art of the Letter of Support,” Contributions, October-November 2002.

“Seven Steps for More Powerful PowerPoint Presentations,” Contributions, April-May 2003.

“The Grantseeker’s Uniform,” Contributions, May-June 2003.

“Anatomy of a Grantseeker,” Contributions, June-July 2003.

“Open Letter to Representatives Blunt and Ford,” Contributions, September-October 2003.

 “You’re Not Done Yet: How to Deal With Question That Will Arise After the Proposal is Submitted,” Contributions, January, 1999.

“Viagra for Grantseekers: How to Survive the Power Imbalance,” Contributions, November, 1998.

“Cold Calls, Warm Calls,” Contributions, September, 1998

“Gertrude Stein Revisited: When Is a Rose NOT a Rose,” Contributions, July, 1998

“Principles of Guerrilla Grantsmanship,” Contributions, May, 1998.

“Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy: Grantseeking: Myth vs. Reality,” Contributions,
15 March, 1998. Reprinted in Treatment Today, March, 1998.

Susan L. Golden, Secrets of Successful Grantsmanship, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.

Susan L. Golden, “Grant Proposals: When and How to Prepare Them,” in The Non-Profit Handbook: Fund-Raising, ed. James M. Greenfield. New York: John S. Wiley & Sons, 1997.