- June 1, 2018Ten years ago, in "Studying Programs is Hard to Do: Why It’s Difficult to Write a Compelling Evaluation," we explained…
- January 16, 2017By now you're familiar with writing needs assessments and you're familiar with using Census data in the needs assessment. While…
- June 20, 2016This weekend I was working on a proposal that requires California education data. The California Department of Education has a…
- December 28, 2015One of our past posts described how to write proposal needs assessments. A spate of recent articles on the so-called…
- October 30, 2015Jake recently wrote a post on the huge challenges faced by primary care provider organizations in meeting EMR Meaningful Use…
- May 26, 2015If you only include data in your needs assessment, you don't stand out from dozens or hundreds of other needs…
- December 30, 2013Needs assessments tend to come in two flavors: one basically instructs the applicant to "Describe the target area and its…
- April 7, 2013Many RFPs ask for data that simply doesn't exist—presumably because the people writing the RFPs don't realize how hard it…
- January 30, 2011Proposal abstracts are funny beasts: they're supposed to summarize an entire proposal, presumably before the reader reads the proposal, and…
- July 12, 2009I've noticed a not-too-subtle change in RFPs lately—largely, I think, due to the Stimulus Bill—that requires us to drag out…
