Advice for Individual Grant Seekers In This Chapter Chapter 22 t Searching for grants for individuals t Making yourself eligible for a grant t Preparing a professional resumé and statement t Covering your time and expenses in a proposal Individual grant seekers have additional hurdles to overcome when seeking a grant, such as lack of nonprofit status and finding information on available grants. As if that weren't bad enough, far fewer funders make grants to individuals. One thing to keep in mind before starting your grant search: grants to individuals are usually considered taxable income. Exceptions are made for some scholarship aid, but be aware of your possible tax liability, and plan accordingly. In this chapter, I show you how to find grants that support what you do and how to become eligible for those grants, sometimes even when a funder states it doesn't fund individuals. I also go over the items in a grant proposal for an individual that parallel items I've discussed for organizations. Finally, I explore how to include money to cover your time and living costs in a grant proposal. Research Is Still the First Step Fewer than 10 percent of foundations make grants to individuals, but that's still a lot of possible funders--some 8,300! And that means research is equally important for individual grant seekers as it is for everyone else.