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Grant writing and cooking: Too many details or ingredients is never a good idea
As a grant writer who also likes to cook, I understand the importance of simplicity and clarity in both my…“Health insurance security” and FQHCs
I hesitate to post this, because it's a bit more political than the topics we typically cover, but it's explanatory…Links: Young people don’t want construction jobs, how to focus, why there’s an affordable housing crisis, the nature of education, and more!
* "Young People Don’t Want Construction Jobs. That’s a Problem for the Housing Market." Given what happened to construction workers…The weakness of the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Program, in a paragraph
We're fans of the Community Development Financial Institutions Program (CDFI), which usually has tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars…Charrettes live: Cite them as a planning tool in your proposal
Ten years ago we advised that grant writers and nonprofit Executive Directors "know your charrettes!" (the exclamation point is in…Philanthropy is not being disrupted by Silicon Valley
The Atlantic writes that "Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy." A lovely article, except for one minor issue: Silicon Valley has…Links: The bike challenge, the car challenge, the subway challenge, the EMR challenge, the altruism challenge, antibiotics, and more!
* "Learn to Ride: E-bikes are great—as long as people know how to ride them. Here’s how to make sure…Write proposals for grant reviewers, not your colleagues or bureaucratic peers
We've written many times in many ways that the golden rule of grant writing is "he who has the gold…Yours is not the only organization that isn’t worried about long-term grant evaluations
Ten years ago, in "Studying Programs is Hard to Do: Why It’s Difficult to Write a Compelling Evaluation," we explained…The DOL FY ’18 YouthBuild FOA is out and a dinosaur program is again relevant
The Department of Labor (DOL) just issued the FY '18 YouthBuild FOA. YouthBuild, which has been around for about 25…