“I found out this morning that I was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for $25,000. I’m beyond grateful for Gigi’s help with my submission. I doubt that I would have received the funding had it not been for her wise suggestions and smart editing.”

“This book is a terrific resource—it is VERY practical, stresses the importance of audience awareness in writing, full of down-to-earth suggestions, easy to read, and it is cross-disciplinary, which suits the wide range of majors I encounter in my university course - so thanks. I vetted (and continue to review) many books on writing for artists and keep coming back to yours. ”

“Rosenberg demystifies the grant writing process!”

“In the three years since reading The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing I have received a $1,200 grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, an $800 scholarship to attend an Anderson Ranch workshop, a $350 grant from the College Book Arts Association, and completed a successful fiscally-sponsored Indiegogo campaign raising $13,000 in one month!”

“Two months after reading Gigi’s book, I was nominated for a second time for the $30,000 Edes Prize. Gigi’s guidance helped me map out my artistic journey and articulate that story. Yesterday I found out I had been awarded the prize! I’ll be spending next year in Italy studying shadow puppetry with masters, attending shadow puppet festivals and sharpening my own craft.”

“This book is wonderful. Personal, sympathetic, practical, encouraging.
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“The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing has everything one needs to know, with easy step-by-step directions, for writing thorough and meaningful proposals that can win competitive grants.”

“I LOVE this book! From the first sentence of the preface, I was grabbed like the very best of memoirs. Enchanted. In love with the author. Wanting to know everything she has to tell me. This is going to be a life- and career-changing book for me.”

“This book is a must for anyone considering a grant. I’ve already dog-eared mine. It not only teaches you how to seek, write and execute a grant, but it helps you believe in yourself as a deserving artist. (See Hope’s longer review below.)
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“The Artist’s Guide to Grant Writing has everything one needs to know, with easy step-by-step directions, for writing thorough and meaningful proposals that can win competitive grants. I would recommend it to any artist.
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“Gigi makes you believe you can do this. And she gives you the tools to get down to work.”

“Rosenberg takes the reader by the hand to navigate the fundraising process, demystifying many of the daunting components that line the road to funding.”

“Rather than being a how-to book on writing grants, or listing grants, it helps writers wrap their minds around the concept of obtaining grants, down to and including budgets. This, my friends, is a bible when it comes to writers learning the grant world.

She emphasizes what I’ve told writers all along—win that first grant, no matter how small, and you’ve earned a sense of validation that carries you a long way—in your eyes, in your peers’ eyes, in other grant judges’ eyes.

I love the first chapter, Start Your Research With You. In a marvelous manner, she teaches you how to embrace grants by studying yourself. Many writers want grants, but they haven’t thought about how to justify their abilities to judges . . . and themselves.

Each chapter ends with an assignment, then tips called “Gigi’s Cheat Sheet” that take the chapter and turn it into simple concepts and mini-tasks that bring them home. This book is a must for anyone considering a grant. I’ve already dog-eared mine. It not only teaches you how to seek, write and execute a grant, but it helps you believe in yourself as a deserving artist.

This book is going on my website as a must-have resource. If I had to rate it one to five, it would rank a six.”

“What a fabulous gift Rosenberg offers us! She writes with charm, intelligence, and clarity.”