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The Curse of Knowledge in the Proposal World
Being too knowledgeable can actually hurt your proposal. At first glance that seems wrong: Isn't knowing more better than knowing…Trying to Give Away Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) or Early Head Start (EHS)
We worked on a bunch of New York City Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) and federal Early Head Start (EHS) proposals last…Don’t Piss Off Local Gatekeepers Who Stand Between You and Federal Grants
While most federal grant proposals are submitted directly to the federal agency funding source, some require the blessing of a…A shortage of jobs for qualified grant writers? Not that we’ve seen!
Mark Peters and David Wessel's "More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs: Technology and Globalization Transform Employment Amid…The Department of Education’s Student Support Services (SSS) is Here, and We’ve Already Written the Post
A month ago we published "Department of Education Grants Are All About Going to College and Completing A Four-Year Degree,"…The Department of Labor’s “American Apprenticeship Initiative” (AAI) shows some forward thinking by the Feds
We're interested in the Department of Labor's "American Apprenticeship Initiative" (AAI) because it uses a word that rarely appears in…We Might Start Seeing RFPs Again, Now That the Latest Spending Bill Passed the House
Sharp-eyed readers of our email grant newsletter know that the last few months have seen few juicy federal RFPs appear.…Cultural Sensitivity, Cultural Insensitivity, and the “Big Bootie” Problem in Grant Writing
This post is going to start in an incredibly boring fashion and then twist; first, the boring part: virtually every…Grant Writing Confidential Goes to the Movies 4: Titanic Edition and Sink-the-Ship mistakes
Titanic is not actually one of my favorite movies, but I'm going to use it to illustrate a critical aspect…Department of Education Grants Are All About Going to College and Completing A Four-Year Degree
Certain things about grant writing can only be learned by reading between the lines: that requires reading individual RFPs carefully,…