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How it’s Supposed to be Done: Lessons from the Refrigerator
Are you doing things a certain way just because you think that’s how it’s supposed to be done, even if it’s not serving you?
Questions to Ease Organizations into a New (and better) Normal
How are your organizations staff? Partners? Board members? Donors? How are YOU? We can rush our organizations towards a post-pandemic “old normal” or pause to ask questions and build a meaningful present and future.
Tricks for Getting Proposals Out the Door On Time
After 25 years of grant writing, I’ve developed some systems for getting proposals out the door on time. Here’s a peak behind the curtain.
25 Reasons Why Your Grant Proposal Didn’t Get Funded
Grant proposals are like baseball; you can’t hit a home run every time. Here are 25 reasons your proposal may not have been awarded a grant.
Can You Keep It Simpl(er)?
Sometimes, our organization’s fundraising (and other) efforts don’t need to be quite as complicated as we’ve made them. Can you keep things simple, or simpler? Especially as we round the corner of one year in our global pandemic?
It Did It! My “I Did” List
In addition to my To Do list, I started making an I Did list. It has become a way to give myself just a little more grace.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
