"The Strategic Grant-Seeker" offers comprehensive assistance to all those who seek to build and maximize research funding. It offers useful information on proposal preparation and planning through execution in the funding process. It discusses this and other imperative topics - such as the relationship between researchers and the funding environment, features good short- and long-range funding plans, actual development of the different types of programmes, career development, strategies for translating research ideas into written proposals, and communicating with a sponsor. Additionally, the final chapters are dedicated to the outcomes of the proposal process: reviews, rebuttals and resubmissions; and progress reports and future proposals for maintaining and building on funding. Flowcharts, examples and summary tables are used throughout the text to highlight key points. An understanding of each of these critical components of the funding process is key to meeting the challenges posed by the increasingly intense competition for research funds. This volume provides a resource for any researcher seeking to prevail over these challenges and achieve steady research funding.