- July 13, 2008Jake gave me a DVD edition of High Noon for Father's Day, in which Gary Cooper's Marshall Will Kane must…
- July 9, 2008There are numerous good reasons why we often make fun of the Department of Education. One recently appeared in the…
- June 22, 2008(Editor's note: this post deals primarily with employees. We've also written a post on the subject of grant writing consultants…
- June 15, 2008A budding grant writer who is enrolled in a Nonprofit Management Masters program recently e-mailed me to ask if she…
- June 8, 2008The breathless SAMHSA RFP, "Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services (Short Title: TCE/HIV)" (.pdf link…
- June 1, 2008One of my favorite books is William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, an ode to the spiritual healing powers of exploring…
- May 15, 2008Last week I discussed repetitive RFP questions and where they spring from, and this week, in honor of the RFPs…
- May 7, 2008I've talked before about RFP absurdity, and now I'll talk about lunacy more generally: the HRSA "Service Expansion in Mental…
- May 1, 2008I've written about the foolishness of trying to use self-esteem as a metric ("Self-Esteem—What is it good for?"), as well…
- April 24, 2008Evaluation sections in proposals are both easy and hard to write, depending on your perspective, because of their estranged relationship…
