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You Know You Are A Grant Writer When… Contributed by:
Diane H. LeonardWednesday, May 16, 2012 (6 days ago)
Spend enough time in any profession, and the inside jokes that only your peers will typically laugh at annual professional conferences and the like, begin to build up. After reading Rebecca Shawver’s recent article about why more young professionals are not entering the grant writing field, I stopped to think about some of those common characteristics and traits that those of us who have been in the field for awhile can connect with.
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Reducing the Stress of Identifying and Utilizing an Outside Evaluator Contributed by:
Diane H. LeonardWednesday, April 18, 2012 (34 days ago)
As the expectations of funders grow with regards to evaluation, selection and utilization of an outside evaluation firm often brings on feelings of stress within a nonprofit team. This article provides straightforward advice on how to locate potential evaluation firms and key questions to ask potential evaluation firms - all designed to take the stress out of the process of beginning to work with an outside evaluator.
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Do You Continue to Write When An Application Doesn’t “Feel Right?” Contributed by:
Diane H. LeonardWednesday, March 07, 2012 (76 days ago)
Should you and your grant team continue working on a grant proposal with your gut feelings scream "stop"?
CharityChannel's WE REVIEW
CharityChannel members who have been admitted to the WE REVIEW Contributors Panel are eligible to receive recently-published books from a variety of publishers (and some self-publishers) to review. Reviews are not limited to books published by CharityChannel Press, the publishing project of the CharityChannel professional community. If you are interested in reviewing books, you are welcome to apply. Note that, even though WE REVIEW has been publishing reviews for over a decade, it has recently been reorganized and re-launched. We took the opportunity to remove prior reviews, since our focus is on newly published books.
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33 Funder-Friendly Elements No Grant Proposal Should be Without: Review by:
Diane H. LeonardWednesday, March 14, 2012 (69 days ago)
In 33 Funder-Friendly Elements No Grant Proposal Should be Without! Kim Rogers makes the case that grant-seeking and grant writing approaches should mimic or embrace direct-marketing techniques. The idea that the success of an organization’s grant writing strategy relies on more than just a well written and on time proposal is accurate and widely accepted in the grant writing field.
33 Funder-Friendly Elements No Grant Proposal Should be Without! provides some interesting ideas within the outlined elements about what some of these other influencing factors can be.
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