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A mystery solved: why the Department of Labor issued NOFOs for the Department of Education’s Talent Search and Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs) TRIO programs
S + A has been writing Department of Education (ED) TRIO proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth. The ED TRIO…S + A’s take on the Minneapolis fraud investigations: The silence of the philanthropic community is deafening
Reading about the seemingly bottomless Minneapolis government grant fraud investigations in recent weeks, I’ve noticed one aspect not covered in…Book Review: Raising Hare: A Memoir is a wonderful tale of the natural world with lessons for grant writers
Good grant writers pay attention to the details of everyday life, whether at home, on a walk in the woods,…Reality TV comes to grant writing as the HUD FY ’25 Continuum of Care (CoC) NOFO is rescinded amid courtroom drama
UPDATE DEC. 22: Much to my surprise, HUD posted the new CoC NOFO today on grants.gov with a new deadline…Making lentil soup and cranberry bread on a cold rainy November afternoon: a madeleine moment
Note: This post is more from the heart than I usually write for Grant Writing Confidential but seems appropriate as…Us grant writers finally get our own urban legend: the 84 words that the feds have banned in grant proposals. Or have any words been banned?
In the past few months, CEOs of two of our larger nonprofit clients have told me, “There are 84 words…When HRSA replaces it’s inscrutable UDS Mapper Tool with an equally incomprehensible GeoCare Navigator and grants.gov makes us all beta testers!
Faithful readers know that we write many Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grants for Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).…There and back again—a drive (or dive) into the heartland from Phoenix to Minneapolis
There and Back Again is Bilbo Baggins' account of his adventures in The Hobbit. I recently took a car trip…A One Year Remembrance for Jake Seliger: The Wheel of Time Stops When Your Adult Child Dies
My oldest son, Jake Seliger, lost his two-year battle with cancer on August 7, 2024 at age 40—a life well…A disturbing trend in Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs): the incredible shrinking grant proposal
Faithful readers know that I love 50’s Si-Fi and big animal/horror films. A forgotten gem of the genre is The Incredible…