How Do Those Corporate Grants Get Made?

I've found myself reading more about the field. Grant writing is properly called grant solicitation and what we do should be called soliciting grants using proposals. So says Reynold Levy in his excellent book A Candid Account of Corporate Philanthropy: Give and Take, published by Harvard Business School Press in 1999. This is a very informative book, and it treats a subject of great importance with a depth of understanding we should expect from a man who spent 10 years of his career heading the AT&T Foundation. I can recommend it to my colleagues in Grant Writing because it is rich with anecdotal evidence for the importance of corporate giving, the thoughtfulness of corporate giving, and the wisdom with which corporate giving strives to make better the communities where these corporations do business. The book opens with "...My friends, it is unselfish effort, helpfulness to others that enobles life, not because of what it does for others, but more what it does for oursleves. In this spirit we should give not grudgingly, not niggardly, but gladly, generously, eagerly, lovingly, joyfully, indeed with the supremest pleasure that life can furnish." From a speech given in 1923 by Julius Rosenwald, whom many in the arts will known as a patron of Medieval manuscripts and much else.