Category: Grants

January 16, 2008

In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross says: Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky's name…

January 11, 2008

I realize that I could collect examples of bad English from the Federal Register all day long and that doing…

January 8, 2008

Roberta Stevens commented on "Writing Needs Assessments: How to Make it Seem Like the End of the World" by saying…

January 4, 2008

A previous post linked to a Wall Street Journal post on charities; now the paper released a full article (may…

January 2, 2008

Drug use, like healthcare and a number of other modern political background noises, offer endless fodder for debate and study,…

December 27, 2007

Hot on the trail of yesterday's post about L.A. gangs and statistics, the New York Times published "Los Angeles Combating…

December 26, 2007

As Isaac wrote, it almost never hurts to claim gang activity in a proposed service area ("[. . . f]ind…

December 24, 2007

Almost every grant proposal requires some form of needs assessment. More or less, the sentiment one must get across it…

December 11, 2007

In Part I of "Studio Executives, Starlets, and Funding," I began by responding to a commenter who said: <blockquote>I cannot…

December 6, 2007

In William Goldman's hilarious Adventures in the Screen Trade*, he wrote, "Nobody knows anything." Nobody knows how much money a…