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Making it Easy to Understand Who’s Eligible for HRSA’s School-Based Health Center Capital Program
The Affordable Care Act has made it especially hard to figure out who's eligible for a program. This week, the…Why does the Seliger Funding Report Sometimes Lack Key Data? Examples from the Small, Rural School Achievement Program and the Portable Assistance Program
Readers occasionally ask why our e-mail newsletter lacks key data about funding, like the maximum size of a grant or…April Links: Education and Jobs, The Rent is Too Damn High, Health Care in Its Many Forms, Food Deserts, and More
* Chicago's plan to match education with jobs; this is long over-due. * Is charity a major source of deadweight…Grant writing is long-form, not fragmentary
In The Millions, Guy Patrick Cunningham* says: More and more, I read in pieces. So do you. Digital media, in…Why fund nonprofits, public agencies, and other organizations through grant applications at all?
Donna Shelley asks a perceptive question in response to "Upward Bound means more narrative confusion:" Why is this [grant-making process]…Why Did the City of Los Angeles Really Lose Out on Stimulus Money?
I find it grimly hilarious, in a Catch-22 way, the City of Los Angeles’ City Controller, Wendy Greuel, realized that…February Links: California, Survival, Censorship, Prisons, the Unwise War on Overhead, and More
* "This is our national identity crisis in a nutshell: Do we want government spending half its money on redistribution…Upward Bound means more narrative confusion
The Upward Bound deadline passed, but the RFP lingers on in my mind like a foul meal. The RFP was…What to do when you become a spontaneous grant writer
Susan wants to know: I am being told that I must become a "grant writer" for my law enforcement agency…January 2012 Links: Paypal Problems, Inner-City Crime, Proposalese in the Media, Innovation, “Abstinence Education,” and More
* Do not ever use Paypal; this story from someone who gets their accounts frozen is fairly common. I had…