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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.
My Word for 2021: Patience
Patience with myself. Patience with others. Patience with life – trusting that things will unfold in their right time.
That Time I Didn’t Know I Was Broken
What an injury taught me about going too hard for too long, and not noticing the broken things.
Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
