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2014
Speech Codes, Microagression and Grant Writing: Words that Shouldn’t (and Should) be Used in Proposalsoriginal ↗
8 May 2014
Seliger’s Quick Guide to Setting Up a Nonprofit Corporation and Getting a 501(c)(3) letter (I Hope You’re Not in a Hurry)original ↗
1 May 2014
Vaporware, the Media, and the Dept. of Labor’s “Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training” (TAACCCT) Grant Programoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2014
A Report from the Front: Close Reading This Year’s DOL YouthBuild Solicitation for Grant Applications (SGA)original ↗
24 Mar 2014
9 Mar 2014
Grant Writing Links: Prosperity Despite Heroin, Bedrooms, Drug War Danger, Google Fiber, Real Prosperity, DuckDuckGo and Moreoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2014
21 Feb 2014
What Happens If You Have a Party and No Girls Show Up? HRSA’s Healthy Start Initiative (HSI) FOA Tries Againoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2014
Don’t Trust What You Read in Grants.gov: Personnel Development To Improve Services and Results for Children With Disabilitiesoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2014
Job Training Grants are the Church of What’s Happening Now: State of the Union and CA Career Pathwaysoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2014
Why Do the Feds Keep RFP Issuance Dates a Secret? The Upcoming FY ’14 GEAR UP and YouthBuild RFP Illustrate the Obviousoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2014
The Narrative Should Use the Headers the Funder Says It Should Use: HRSA’s Health Start Initiative (HSI)original ↗
21 Jan 2014
January Links: Apprenticeships, Empathy, Cars, Drugs, Mattresses, Guns, Antibiotics & Sex, and More!original ↗
14 Jan 2014
Cold Wave Means More Clients and More Grant Needs for Nonprofits in Wintry States and the Sunbeltoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2014
2013
20 Dec 2013
HRSA’s Healthy Start Initiative Inadvertently Illuminates* How Grant Funding Decisions are Actually Madeoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2013
November Links: Vaccines Are Important, Education Reform, the Future of the World, Broadband, Cities, and More!original ↗
30 Nov 2013
25 Nov 2013
Foundations Give Away Five Percent Of Their Assets a Year: Typhoon Haiyan Shows Why You Should Act Now, Not Lateroriginal ↗
11 Nov 2013
Don’t Trust Grants.Gov, Which Makes a $200,000,000 Mistake: An Example from the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) Programoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2013
California Issues An RFA for the 21st CCLC Program, Illustrating Why You Should Remember Old Grant Programsoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2013
30 Sept 2013
Links: The Charity-Industrial Complex, Anthony Weiner Exposed (so to speak), Conventional Wisdom Debunked, Vaccines, Work, the Workforce, and More!original ↗
21 Sept 2013
Build an App for the Animals, but First the Feds should get Grants.gov to Work as well as Amazonoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2013
Grants.gov Dies Again: The Race to the Top-District (RTTT-D) Competition Eschews the Feds’s Main Grant Portaloriginal ↗
3 Sept 2013
More RFP Looney Tunes, This Time from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Care Innovation Award Programoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2013
Links: Cash Transfers, Bike Life, Car Costs, FQHCs, Save the Movie!, Homelessness, and More!original ↗
12 Aug 2013
Is It Worth Your Time to Cozy Up to Program Officers and Bat Your Eyelashes? Maybe, But Only If It’s Nighttime, They’re Drunk, and You’re Beautifuloriginal ↗
5 Aug 2013
A grant writer gets a new companion and explains some lesser known aspects of certain nonprofitsoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2013
Small Business Blues: Trying to Get and Keep the Attention of Equipment Vendors is a Challengeoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2013
June Links: FundRise, America’s Worst Charities, Apprenticeships, Parking, Computers for Low-Income Kids, and More!original ↗
19 Jun 2013
Health Care Innovation Awards Round Two: ObamaCare, the Gift that Keeps Giving for Grant Seekers and Writersoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2013
13 May 2013
Links: LED Bulbs, Condoms, Education, News is Bad For You, Marriage, Detroit, Foundations, Congress and ObamaCare, and More!original ↗
5 May 2013
Another New Federal Grant Program Emerges: PPHF – 2013 – Cooperative Agreement to Support Navigators in Federally-facilitated and State Partnership Exchangesoriginal ↗
2 May 2013
You Don’t Forget Your First RFP Amendment Post: DOL’s Face Forward Expands Eligibility Requirementsoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2013
Are You Experienced? Face Forward—Serving Juvenile Offenders SGA: A New Department of Labor Program That Mirrors YouthBuildoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2013
March links: Carol M White PEP is out, Unmarried Moms, Emulate Carmelo Anthony, BTOP Money Wasted, Screwed UP FHA Rules and Moreoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2013
The Existence of Drug Courts Implicitly Acknowledgement Failed Public Policy: An Example From the “Grants to Expand Substance Abuse Treatment Capacity” Programoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2013
February Links: Writing, NIMBYs, Nonprofits-as-startups, Affordable Housing, Baltimore, Washington DC, Washington Monument Syndrome, Porn Star Study and more!original ↗
24 Feb 2013
Always Finish Early: You Never Really Know What’s Going To Happen With a Proposal Deadlineoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2013
10 Feb 2013
When It’s Good For At-Risk Youth to Hang Out At McDonald’s: Searching for Connectivity in All the Wrong Placesoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2013
January Links: Giving, California’s Failures, Colleges, Foundations, Neighborhoods, Prostitutes in Brazil Learning English, Strippers in North Dakota, Riots in Detroit, and Moreoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2013
DOL Issues FY ’13 YouthBuild SGA—If You’re A Current Grantee, Here’s How to Beat the Eligibility Restrictionoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2013
21 Jan 2013
RFPs for “National Nonprofits,” like the Rural Capacity Building for Community Development and Affordable Housing Grants, are Effectively Wiredoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2013
2012
Cliff Diving: Sequestration and A New Year’s Resolution for Nonprofits and Local Public Agencies Worried About the Fiscal Cliff and Grantsoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2012
Sandy Hook School Shootings Tragedy Likely to Lead to New Grant Opportunities for School Security, After School and Mental Health Project Conceptsoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2012
December Links: HUD, Emergency Solutions Grants, Boating Safety Grants, What’s Wrong with Liking Quiet Time, Real Dangers, Parents in Prison, Happy Porn Stars and Moreoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2012
Why HUD Hasn’t Released the Total Funding Amount for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control (LBPHC) and Demonstration Program NOFAs?original ↗
5 Dec 2012
December Links: Dubious Education Policies, FEMA, Writing, School Reform, Manufacturers, Quiet, Dan Savage, the Security Ratchet, and More!original ↗
11 Nov 2012
Nonprofits must keep searching for new revenue: “Communities for Teaching Excellence” and Gates Foundation fundingoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2012
Turhan Bey Passes, Presidential Debates, Honey Boo Boo, Truffle Pigs, and FY ’13 RFPs (Including YouthBuild, Serving Adult and Youth Offenders, and More)original ↗
14 Oct 2012
Links: Kickstarter for Municipal Projects, Sentence Studies, L.A.’s Transit Revolution, Recess, Homeless Youth, and More!original ↗
22 Sept 2012
First 5 LA Issues a Huge RFP for Homeless Services, and Nimble Nonprofits Start Hopping (Or Hoping)original ↗
18 Sept 2012
HRSA’s Service Area Competition (SAC) Soaks Up Some Sun in Miami, While Brownfields Grants Are Available in Californiaoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2012
Time Banks, Barter, Community Gardens and More: Economic Misery Provides Opportunities for Nimble Nonprofitsoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2012
August Grant Writing Links: Abstinence and Comprehensive Sex Education, the Stimulus Bill, Charter Schools, Entitlements, and Moreoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2012
23 Jul 2012
President Obama Would Likely Make a Good Grant Writer, as He Recognizes the Value of Telling a Compelling Storyoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2012