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The Narrative Should Use the Headers the Funder Says It Should Use: HRSA’s Health Start Initiative (HSI)
A few days ago I was describing some of the weirder sections in HRSA's Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in…January Links: Apprenticeships, Empathy, Cars, Drugs, Mattresses, Guns, Antibiotics & Sex, and More!
* Where Factory Apprenticeship Is Latest Model From Germany, which the U.S. ought to be doing. * The global poverty…Cold Wave Means More Clients and More Grant Needs for Nonprofits in Wintry States and the Sunbelt
I woke early this morning, as I'm wrestling with an NIH proposal with a very short deadline. A peek at…The unsolvable standardized data problem and the needs assessment monster
Needs assessments tend to come in two flavors: one basically instructs the applicant to "Describe the target area and its…You Don’t Have to be in a Shithole Nonprofit
Seliger + Associates's main offices recently moved to Downtown Santa Monica. Those of you who have visited Santa Monica recently…Vice President Biden Announces $100 Million for Mental Health Services — or Did He?
The White House just published this breathless news release announcing $100 Million for Mental Health Services. As soon as I…HRSA’s Healthy Start Initiative Inadvertently Illuminates* How Grant Funding Decisions are Actually Made
Our old pals at HRSA just issued the FY '14 Healthy Start Initiative (HSI) Funding Opportunity Announcement ("FOA," which is…November Links: Vaccines Are Important, Education Reform, the Future of the World, Broadband, Cities, and More!
* Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) of Tennessee's preschool program show that preschool doesn't appear to improve the later school performance…Youth CareerConnect Program: The Department of Labor Provides An Early Holiday Present
The holidays come early year with this tasty new* program from the elves at the Department of Labor (DOL) Employment…Reflections of a Grant Writer on the 50th Anniversary of the JFK Assassination
Like all Americans who were alive at the time, I clearly remember the moment I learned of President Kennedy's assassination.…