- March 5, 2021Needs assessment experts and data nerds know that factfinder.census.gov, the old primary portal into Census data, is dead, while the…
- May 28, 2018The Department of Labor (DOL) just issued the FY '18 YouthBuild FOA. YouthBuild, which has been around for about 25…
- May 29, 2016A few weeks ago we noticed that "HRSA made it harder for NAP applicants to shoot themselves in the foot;"…
- March 29, 2015Job training programs, education programs, and related programs can work in two basic modes: batch/cohort (we'll call it "batch" for…
- March 24, 2014We wrote the very first funded YouthBuild grant for a Southern California client in 1994 and have written funded YouthBuild…
- February 23, 2014Faithful readers will know that we recently predicted that the Department of Labor (DOL) would soon issue the FY '15…
- February 3, 2014Although I gave up watching State of the Union speeches about 20 years ago—they're always boring and bombastic—this year's rendition…
- January 26, 2014An oddity of the Federal grant making process is that projected RFP issuance dates are usually kept secret.* Two cases…
- December 30, 2013Needs assessments tend to come in two flavors: one basically instructs the applicant to "Describe the target area and its…
- November 24, 2013The holidays come early year with this tasty new* program from the elves at the Department of Labor (DOL) Employment…
