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What counts as an eligible service area for SAMHSA’s “Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma” (ReCAST) program?
Long ago, we wrote about what grant writers and applicants should do when confronted by a poorly organized RFP; because…Denver and Barcelona: A tale of two cities and the apparent decline of America’s downtowns
I'm writing this post at 39K feet over the Atlantic on my way home from eight days in Barcelona; Barcelona…Permitting is the big barrier to wind energy right now (beyond batteries and fundamental research)
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) wrote and posted the 2022 Offshore Wind…Job training and workforce development funding is sometimes found in strange places
We keep an eye on as many parts of the federal grant-making system as we can,* which sometimes reveals peculiarities—the…Congress passes gun reform bill: News for nimble nonprofits and public agencies
Our usually dyspeptic Congress recently passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act AKA Gun Reform Bill, which has funding for new…Grant writing links: The need to build in America, fixing the grant-funding process in science, sexual activity, and more!
* “Your methods are unorthodox.” We agree. * "Why America can't build." This is consistent with our recent piece on…Nonprofit boards of directors usually exist to be controlled by the organization’s executive director
At Cold Takes, Holden Karnofsky finds that "Nonprofit boards are weird" because there are usually too many people on them,…“Homelessness is a Housing Problem”: When cities build more housing, homelessness goes down
Maybe you've seen the headlines: "Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1 million per apartment to build" (that's up…The National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant-making process is slow, even during a pandemic
StatNews reports that the NIH is "a slow-moving glacier" and that the agency's "sluggish and often opaque efforts to study…Unexpected consequences of MacKenzie Scott’s big donations to housing nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity
You might've read that MacKenzie Scott, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, is making huge donations to some nonprofit organizations, including…