- August 1, 2014At our most basic level, we grant writers are nothing more than ghost writers. Ghost writing is sometimes referred to…
- June 29, 2014We've written various posts on the challenges of starting a new nonprofit (like this one), mostly because we get lots…
- June 21, 2014Last week, a client got a federal funding notification e-mail for a proposal we wrote a few months ago, and…
- June 15, 2014"No Money, No Time" helps set the cultural tone for the proposal world. In the proposal world—which does sometimes overlap…
- May 27, 2014Facility grants are among the most difficult grants for a nonprofit to secure and almost impossible for a new organization…
- May 17, 2014Almost all RFPs include requirements for "collaboration" with local entities. Yet I recently read this from Camille Paglia: After endless…
- May 11, 2014This week's e-mail grant newsletter included this long-winded program title: "Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): School Climate Transformation…
- May 8, 2014One of the most unfortunate changes in the academic world since I left the warm bosom of the University of…
- May 1, 2014We get a couple of calls a week from folks saying, "I'm in the process of setting up a nonprofit…
- April 20, 2014Today's New York Times has a rarely expressed view (and, almost as rarely, a view that we share): that volunteering…
