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Adventures in Bureaucracy and the Long Tale of Deciphering Eligibility: A Farce Featuring the Department of Education’s Erin Pfeltz
There are numerous good reasons why we often make fun of the Department of Education. One recently appeared in the…Project NUTRIA: A Study in Project Concept Development
Grant writers are often called on to develop project concepts with little or no input from clients or program specialists.…Why can’t I find a grant writer? How to identify and seize that elusive beast
(Editor's note: this post deals primarily with employees. We've also written a post on the subject of grant writing consultants…Tools of the Trade—What a Grant Writer Should Have
A budding grant writer who is enrolled in a Nonprofit Management Masters program recently e-mailed me to ask if she…Links: Finnish kids, computers in schools, bureaucrats, race, Playboy (?), and more!
* The Wall Street Journal ran "What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international…Deconstructing the Question: How to Parse a Confused RFP
The breathless SAMHSA RFP, "Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services (Short Title: TCE/HIV)" (.pdf link…Blue Highways: Reflections of a Grant Writer Retracing His Steps 35 Years Later
One of my favorite books is William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, an ode to the spiritual healing powers of exploring…Further Information Regarding the Department of Redundancy Department
Last week I discussed repetitive RFP questions and where they spring from, and this week, in honor of the RFPs…RFP Lunacy and Answering Repetitive or Impossible Questions: HRSA and Dental Health Edition
I've talked before about RFP absurdity, and now I'll talk about lunacy more generally: the HRSA "Service Expansion in Mental…Self-Efficacy is underrated
I've written about the foolishness of trying to use self-esteem as a metric ("Self-Esteem—What is it good for?"), as well…