This guide is intended to assist corrections administrators in the task of securing funding for vocational education programs, especially through preparing and submitting applications for grants. The main text discusses: (1) the types and general sources of funding; (2) procedures for developing proposals to obtain funding; and (3) strategies for influencing the policies of funding organizations. Approximately one-third of the document consists of appendixes that provide: (1) information on funding resources, including the names of foundations and agencies, their addresses, the names and telephone numbers of contact persons, and brief synopses of the relevant types of programs they support (appendix A); (2) a sample preliminary proposal (appendix B); (3) a list of U.S. Department of Education regional offices (appendix C); and (4) a list of the state directors of vocational education (appendix D). (KC)