- 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.…
- June 22, 2008(Editor's note: this post deals primarily with employees. We've also written a post on the subject of grant writing consultants…
- June 15, 2008A budding grant writer who is enrolled in a Nonprofit Management Masters program recently e-mailed me to ask if she…
- June 11, 2008* The Wall Street Journal ran "What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? Finland's teens score extraordinarily high on an international…
- June 8, 2008The breathless SAMHSA RFP, "Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services (Short Title: TCE/HIV)" (.pdf link…
- June 1, 2008One of my favorite books is William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, an ode to the spiritual healing powers of exploring…
