- September 3, 2008I was in LA over Labor Day weekend and, at a pool party, chatted with a semi-retired CPA who has…
- August 24, 2008In Mordecai Richler's hilarious novel Barney's Version, a discussion arises: "We've got a problem this year. There's been a decline…
- August 16, 2008Faithful readers know of my Blue Highways post about driving to LA with my daughter following her college graduation last…
- August 13, 2008* Imagine our surprise at seeing a client on the front page of CNN: "AIDS in America today is a…
- August 8, 2008People often find Grant Writing Confidential by searching for terms like "commission only grant writers,"* "free grant writers," "free grant…
- July 27, 2008Sudhir Venkatesh*, a Columbia University Sociologist, wrote "To Fight Poverty, Tear Down HUD," and in it he suggests imploding HUD…
- July 21, 2008In writing a grant that describes a program, you, the writer, are actually telling a story you want readers to…
- 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 30, 2008Grant writers are often called on to develop project concepts with little or no input from clients or program specialists.…
