- April 14, 2013Despite all the teeth gnashing and flailing of arms over the recent sequestration non-calamity, the Department of Labor has found…
- 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 22, 2013The Department of Labor just issued the FY '13 YouthBuild SGA ("Solicitation for Grant Applications," which is DOL-speak for RFP),…
- October 14, 2012Almost five years ago, I wrote about the strange phenomenon of grant programs rising from the dead like The Mummy…
- August 5, 2012Two Wall Street Journal articles on job training grant programs caught my eye. The first, "U.S. Faces Uphill Battle in…
- June 1, 2012As a companion piece to Jake’s post on YouthBuild and Isaac's on formatting, I want to explain the science of…
- May 20, 2012YouthBuild season recently ended, at least for those of us lucky enough to be writing the proposals and preparing the…
- June 12, 2011For reasons not clear to me, I am on the (usually) happy-talk email distribution list of Dorothy Stoneman, doyenne of…
- December 27, 2010As 2010 proposals slide into the archives, I find myself reflecting on the inadequacy of Grants.gov and other federal electronic…
- November 7, 2010Ed Nelson asks, "Do conservative non-profits get grants or are federal grants such an anathema to them, [and] they choose…
