Build a career on other people's money

There's no trick to getting grants to support your journalism, writes Jillian Keenan, who offers tips on the Poynter site: "I’ve conducted research in Cuba and Oman, lived in Singapore and England, and traveled around the world — all thanks to full or partial support of grants. Without those grants, my resume (and, more significantly, my life) would be pretty boring." NASW members can also search in the ScienceWriters funding sources database.