- August 6, 2019Derek Sivers has a rule for many things: No 'yes.' Either 'HELL YEAH!' or 'no.'" He says, "When deciding whether…
- December 6, 2015Twenty and change years ago, Isaac was starting Seliger + Associates and expected to be hired by foundations and perhaps…
- September 19, 2013Grants.gov has undergone another re-design that, like its previous re-designs, makes it slightly more functional and slightly less functional. It's…
- September 25, 2011Most people who claim to be grant writers or "involved" in grants don't actually write proposals. They're more often engaged…
- September 17, 2011The cliche goes, "Chance favors the prepared mind," and we could repurpose it to, "Short deadlines favor the prepared nonprofit."…
- January 30, 2011Proposal abstracts are funny beasts: they're supposed to summarize an entire proposal, presumably before the reader reads the proposal, and…
- August 15, 2009If you read our e-mail newsletter, the Seliger Funding Report, you're aware of a number that can mean different quantities…
- January 16, 2008In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross says: Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky's name…
- January 4, 2008A previous post linked to a Wall Street Journal post on charities; now the paper released a full article (may…
