Why Fund Nonprofits, Public Agencies, and Other Organizations Through Grant...
Donna Shelley asks a perceptive question in response to my post on how Upward Bound means more narrative confusion: Why is this [grant-making process] done at all? It continues to be a mystery to me....
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Why Nonprofits Are More Like Businesses Than You Realize
In a Hacker News thread, “guylhem” asked a (very) common question, in the context of firms that specialize in providing services to nonprofit and public agencies: “Why exactly is profit / commerce...
View Article“Estimate” Means “Make It Up” In the Proposal and Grant Writing Worlds
Many RFPs ask for data that simply doesn’t exist—presumably because the people writing the RFPs don’t realize how hard it is to find phantom data. But other RFP writers realize that data can be hard to...
View ArticleGrant Writer Vs. Grant Management: Two Essential Nonprofit Job Functions...
George Bernard Shaw or Oscar Wilde allegedly said, “England and America are two nations separated by a common language.” “Grant Writer” and “Grant Manager” are two allegedly related functions separated...
View ArticleGuest Post: Tales of the Grant Manager
This guest post was inspired by “Grant Writer Vs. Grant Management: Two Essential Nonprofit Job Functions Separated by a Common Word” and describes what a Grant Manager does and how that differs from...
View ArticleTalking About Progressive Ideals in Proposals: Money, Time, and Poverty in...
“No Money, No Time” helps set the cultural tone for the proposal world. In the proposal world—which does sometimes overlap with the real world—poor people spend time where richer people might spend...
View ArticleIn Forming a Nonprofit Board, Think “Goldilocks”
When forming a new nonprofit, one of the first issues confronting the sponsor as they apply for a state charter and draft articles of incorporation and bylaws is: How many board members should the new...
View ArticleMore on Using the Critical Path Method (CPM) in Grant Writing
This post expands on an issue raised in “No Calls, No Bother: ‘Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule’ and the Grant Writer’s Work.” Specifically, the critical path method (CPM), which is a...
View ArticleHow Computers Have Made Grant Writing Worse
In most ways computers have made our lives better. In some, however, they’ve made our lives worse.* In grant writing, computers have enabled a level of neurotic, anxious behavior that was simply...
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How we write scientific and technical grant proposals
We’re not scientists or engineers and yet we routinely write scientific and technical proposals. First-time callers are often incredulous at this ability; how can we, with no expertise in a given...
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