- February 13, 2008Two comments on Credentials for Grant Writers—If I Only Had A Brain caught my attention: one is an elegantly written…
- February 10, 2008In Umberto Eco's fabulous The Name of the Rose, Adso of Melk says that "In the past men were handsome…
- February 7, 2008The Wall Street Journal ran "As Houses Empty, Cities Seek Ways, To Fill the Void" (link goes to a blog…
- February 4, 2008It's not unusual for an RFP to ask how community feedback was incorporated into the design of a project, and…
- February 1, 2008A manager at the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, an agency we sometimes work for, recently…
- January 27, 2008I've written about stylistically bad language from government RFPs, but more common than the outright bad is the silly, the…
- January 23, 2008"New Voices Of Philanthropy"* is running an occasional series in which they invite bloggers involved in the nonprofit world to…
- January 22, 2008I noted earlier in Zombie Funding that programs can dwindle from a huge amount of available money to virtually nothing,…
- January 18, 2008Writing the goals and objectives section of a grant proposal is usually a daunting task for the novice grant writer.…
- January 16, 2008In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross says: Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky's name…
