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Grant Writing Confidential is maintained by Isaac and Jake Seliger. Isaac has been working in nonprofit and public agencies for more than 35 years, and in that time he’s written hundreds of proposals. He has probably seen every manner of proposal blunde

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• What to do When Research Indicates Your Approach is Unlikely to Succeed: Part I of a Case Study on the Community-Based Abstinence Education Program RFP

  Posted on Sunday October 12th, 2008 at 22:37 in abstinence, abstinence education, clients, family planning, grant research, grant writing, grants, How-To, links, questions, research, sex education

  The Community Based Abstinence Education Program (CBAE—see the .pdf RFP at the link) from the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACF) is a complicated, confusing, and poorly designed RF...

• Links for 8-13-08

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 14:33 in aids, black aids institute, cdc, clients, Creative Capitalism, grant writing, grants, hiv, housing, links, teen pregnancy, write right

  * Imagine our surprise at seeing a client on the front page of CNN: “AIDS in America today is a black disease,” says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive...

• Tools of the Trade—What a Grant Writer Should Have

  Posted on Sunday June 15th, 2008 at 23:53 in advice, clients, Computers, grant writing, grant writing training, grants, os x, questions, tools, writing, writing tools

  A budding grant writer who is enrolled in a Nonprofit Management Masters program recently e-mailed me to ask if she should spend $4,000 on grant writing classes. Regular readers know how little I thin...

• RFP Lunacy and Answering Repetitive or Impossible Questions

  Posted on Wednesday May 7th, 2008 at 10:56 in advice, clients, dhhs, grant source research, grant writing, grants, hrsa, rfp, service expansion, stories

  I’ve talked before about RFP absurdity, and now I’ll talk about lunacy: the HRSA “Service Expansion in Mental Health/Substance Services, Oral Health and Comprehensive Pharmacy Servic...

• Stuck on Stupid: Hiring Lobbyists to Chase Earmarks

  Posted on Saturday April 19th, 2008 at 15:14 in advice, clients, department of education, earmarks, edgar, funding, funds, grant research, grant source research, grant writing, grants, lobbying

  A faithful Grant Writing Confidential reader and fellow grant writer, Katherine, sent an email wanting my take on a public agency hiring a lobbying firm to seek federal earmarks. For those not familia...

• Finding and Using Phantom Data

  Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 04:01 in advice, clients, data, data mining, grant data, grant research, grant writing, grants, proposal data, rfp data, rfp needs assessment, stories

  RFP needs assessments will sometimes request data that aren’t readily available or just don’t exist. The question then becomes for you, the grant writer, what to do when caught between an ...

• Grant Writing Credentials Redux

  Posted on Wednesday February 13th, 2008 at 17:46 in advice, charity channel, clients, credentials, gpci, grant credentials, grant professionals, grant writing, grants, questions, the grantsmanship center

  Two comments on Credentials for Grant Writers—If I Only Had A Brain caught my attention: one is an elegantly written response challenging some aspects of my argument and the other a screechy attack....