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Creative Collaborations: Add Spice to Your Proposals By Thinking Outside the Partnership Box Contributed by:
Maryn BoessWednesday, September 27, 2006 (6 years 231 days ago)
So just how important is collaboration to successful grantseeking?
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Message To a New Would-Be Grantseeker Contributed by:
Maryn BoessWednesday, April 12, 2006 (7 years 34 days ago)
Hello, Ms. Boess. My name is Janice Jones. I am assistant to the pastor of First Light Mission. We are a new faith-based organization that would like to start a senior center, youth center, and child care center in a targeted area in Phoenix. We are just starting out and need help obtaining grant information for all areas of development. Can you please direct us where to start first. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to read this email and respond or forward it to someone that can direct us on where to go.
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Is This Funding Opportunity Right For Us? - An Agency Assessment Checklist Contributed by:
Maryn BoessWednesday, March 15, 2006 (7 years 62 days ago)
We're accustomed to asking "How well does what we're setting out to do match the mission of the funder?" But there's more to good stewardship in the grants arena than simply finding a good mission match. And there are more questions we need to be asking, too, to ensure that our best intentions keep us on track, rather than lead us astray.
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SMART? Targets: A Fill-in-the-Blanks Model for Crafting Unbeatable Outcome Measures Contributed by:
Maryn BoessWednesday, February 09, 2005 (8 years 96 days ago)
Not surprisingly, one of the stickiest issues for folks at every level of expertise is that of how to develop strong, solid, funder-friendly outcome measures. I've learned that in many cases, if not most, it's possible to break the mystery and mystique of outcome measures down to a simple, powerful step-by-step process that not only results in unbeatable measures, but actually gives you a head start on your evaluation plan.
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The Five Whys: Digging Deep to Rediscover Your Passion Contributed by:
Maryn BoessThursday, November 18, 2004 (8 years 179 days ago)
The poor fellow just wasn't getting it. A volunteer with a rural fire department, he'd come to my two-day class, "The Grantsmanship Game: Playing to Win," with a clear purpose in mind: To get funding for his fire department to complete a national accreditation process. Now, I was using him as an example in a class exercise we call "The Five Whys" – and he was getting very, very frustrated.
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Lifecycle-Stage Funding: What Is It? What Does It Mean? And Why Should Grantmakers Pay Attention? Contributed by:
Maryn BoessWednesday, September 15, 2004 (8 years 243 days ago)
Just as all living organisms progress along a developmental continuum - from birth, through childhood and adolescence, into adulthood and maturity - so too does every organization, whether for-profit or not. Among for-profits, it's widely understood that every lifecycle stage attracts and is appropriate for its own unique set of options for funding. Nonprofits - and the grantmakers who support them - have a lot of catching up to do in this respect.
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