A grant cover letter typically accompanies a grant proposal. It is much more informal than the grant proposal itself. Instead, it is the equivalent of the journal cover letter to the editor that typically accompanies your journal manuscript.
Although not as important and as thorough as the grant proposal itself, most funding organizations often have it as an official requirement for requests for proposals (or RFPs). In this article, I describe tips to follow when writing a grant cover letter, and I provide an example. Read on to learn more.
What is a grant cover letter?
A grant letter is an official document that accompanies your grant proposal application that gives a brief description of the contents of the proposal and the main authors involved in the project. It is typically an official requirement of most grant proposal applications.
Think of a grant proposal as a professional document as opposed to an example of academic writing. To learn more about the differences between professional writing and academic writing, please check out this article: Academic Vs Professional Writing.
The main point of a grant cover letter is a polite and official acknowledgment that you have applied for a grant. Below we provide an example of a grant cover letter for an Asian Development Bank Proposal.
Example of a grant cover letter |
International Development Center
National ZhongyanUniversity
No.178, Zhongxin Rd.,
Singapore 40553, Taiwan
Tel: (Office) 04-22870615 ext. 350
March 20, 2021
Ansar Ibrahim
Director Asian Development Bank
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong,
Metro Manila 1550, Philippines
Dear Mr. Ibrahim:
On behalf of the International Development Center of National Zhongyan University (NZU) in Singapore, I respectfully propose to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) an international cooperative project titled “A Sustainable Integrated Farming System (IFS) for Java.” The purpose of this project is to increase the resilience of rural smallholder farmers in Java, Indonesia by creating an agricultural system that is sustainable, efficient, self-sufficient, and profitable. Joined by many agricultural experts from National Zhongyan University (NZU) in Taiwan and Florida University (FU) in USA, our team plans to adopt the IFS system of farming — a system of farming seeks to reduce the use of pesticides, preserve the environment while meeting the social and economic needs of the farmer and their community. We include a number of aspects to our IFS system: rice-fish and duck-fish farming methods, the use of mutated rice varieties with straw that can be used as ruminant feed, adding value to rice produce through organic farming, and incorporating agro-ecotourism into farming activities.
The incorporation and adoption of an integrated farming system for Indonesian rice production provides an apt opportunity to promote resilience in rural farming. Rice remains a vital source of food and income in Indonesia, which is one of the world’s most populous countries with a population of over 250 million. However, the rice industry faces a number of problems. Java is the main source of rice production in Indonesia but suffers from water scarcity, adverse climatic conditions (such as drought and floods), poverty among rice farmers, and heavy use of pesticides. The adoption of an IFS would contribute to adding value to the rice produced by farmers and thus help contribute to increased incomes and poverty reduction.
This project is in line with the ADB’s “Operational Plan for Sustainable Food Security in Asia and the Pacific.” Our IFS system will be a highly adaptable and efficient system focused on the needs of the small rural farmers of Indonesia. The funding will be required to set up experimental IFS rice farms in selected parts of Java, Indonesia for the next three years with the goal of disseminating this technology among as many farmers as possible in the region. Indonesia is a country seeking to gain middle-income status in the next few years; we hope that our IFS program can ensure that smallholder farmers are not marginalized or left behind in the process. By granting our proposal, we hope that this goal can be attained.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Chen-Fa Wu
Director of International Development Center
NZU, Singapore
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Antoine. M. (2024, November 13). How to Write a Grant Cover Letter. https://www.eminentediting.com/post/how-to-write-a-grant-cover-letter |
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