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What Does a Grant Proposal Look Like Exactly? 13 Easy Steps to Formatting a Winning Proposal
I was having dinner with some friends who are consultants for a multinational company, and they wanted to know who…Why Do People Give to Nonprofits and Charities? And Other Unanswerable Questions
This month's Giving Carnival—discussed here previously—asks why people give and what motivates giving. I have no idea and suspect no…Agricultural Cooperatives Live
Reporters have been writing about the death of small family farm since at least the Great Depression, and governmental efforts…Grant Writing Credentials Redux
Two comments on Credentials for Grant Writers—If I Only Had A Brain caught my attention: one is an elegantly written…Another Example of the Wonderful Past
Last night I was reading Madame Bovary and found another example of the cultural phenomenon I described in The Wonderful…Evoke The Wonderful Past in Your Needs Assessment
In Umberto Eco's fabulous The Name of the Rose, Adso of Melk says that "In the past men were handsome…Déjà vu All Over Again—Vacant Houses and What Not to Do About Them
The Wall Street Journal ran "As Houses Empty, Cities Seek Ways, To Fill the Void" (link goes to a blog…Know Your Charettes! Especially Near the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) Program
It's not unusual for an RFP to ask how community feedback was incorporated into the design of a project, and…Credentials for Grant Writers from the Grant Professionals Certification Institute—If I Only Had A Brain
A manager at the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, an agency we sometimes work for, recently…RFP Absurdity and Responding to Narrative Questions
I've written about stylistically bad language from government RFPs, but more common than the outright bad is the silly, the…