Q: I’d like to learn how to write grant proposals, with an eye toward doing it on a freelance basis. What’s the best and quickest way for me to learn this craft, and can you recommend any resources?

The faxed advertisement that arrived at Citizens Who Care, a nonprofit group in Davis, Calif., that provides services for the elderly, promised grant-proposal-writing training that would result in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the life of a freelancer. Unless you’re a nepo baby, if you want to be a freelancer, you gotta write proposals.