- May 26, 2015If you only include data in your needs assessment, you don't stand out from dozens or hundreds of other needs…
- May 18, 2015The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program is back, most notably via the COPS Hiring Program (CHP), which has $134.5…
- April 19, 2015In "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" Paul Graham writes There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule…
- March 29, 2015Job training programs, education programs, and related programs can work in two basic modes: batch/cohort (we'll call it "batch" for…
- March 22, 2015As we've written before, parsing an RFP sometimes seems like deciphering the Talmud. The just-issued ED Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI)…
- March 15, 2015Faithful readers know that I've been writing federal grant proposals since the last ice age.* For most of the last…
- March 8, 2015Anyone who's been to a race track or Vegas knows that the odds of a given race or sporting event…
- February 22, 2015A standard pitch for at-risk youth empowerment grant proposals is simple: We'll give youth access to X, and through their…
- February 8, 2015It seems intuitive that having more time to complete a task would result in a better final product. But in…
- February 1, 2015Grant writing, like most artistic pursuits, is an essentially solitary endeavor. No matter how many preliminary group-think planning meetings or…
