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Foundations and the Future: How Funder Incentives Affect Nonprofits, Grants, and Grant Writing
"New Voices Of Philanthropy"* is running an occasional series in which they invite bloggers involved in the nonprofit world to…Phoenix Programs
I noted earlier in Zombie Funding that programs can dwindle from a huge amount of available money to virtually nothing,…The Goal of Writing Objectives is to Achieve Positive Outcomes (Say What?)
Writing the goals and objectives section of a grant proposal is usually a daunting task for the novice grant writer.…The Perils of Perfectionism
In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross says: Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky's name…Bad Government English
I realize that I could collect examples of bad English from the Federal Register all day long and that doing…Self-Esteem—What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing
Roberta Stevens commented on "Writing Needs Assessments: How to Make it Seem Like the End of the World" by saying…More on Charities
A previous post linked to a Wall Street Journal post on charities; now the paper released a full article (may…More on Drugs
Drug use, like healthcare and a number of other modern political background noises, offer endless fodder for debate and study,…Gangs, Again
Hot on the trail of yesterday's post about L.A. gangs and statistics, the New York Times published "Los Angeles Combating…On Gangs and Proposals
As Isaac wrote, it almost never hurts to claim gang activity in a proposed service area ("[. . . f]ind…