Grant Writing Confidential

1972—A 21-year-old kid who’d taken a few Saul Alinsky-style courses in community organizing found himself as a Community Organizing Intern working in North Minneapolis, the mostly Black neighborhood in which he grew up, for the Minneapolis Housing and Redevelopment Authority. His supervisor, Helen Starkweather (who may or may not have been related to the better [...]

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Seliger + Associates is pleased to announce that a $2,000,000 federal Department of Education Upward Bound grant proposal we recently wrote has been funded in Wisconsin. The grant will be used by a nonprofit organization to provide academic enrichment to encourage low-income African American children to attend college.

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Programs can be engorged with money one year and fall off priority lists the next. The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program/Fire Prevention and Safety Grants demonstrates this better than almost any other, as it had more than $500,000,000 available in 2006—and this year it has all of $2,750,000 (warning: .pdf link). In other words, the [...]

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Seliger + Associates provides comprehensive grant writing, grant source research and related services for public and nonprofit agencies throughout the United States. Formed in 1993, we have had over 500 clients in 40 states and have written over $175,000,000 in funded grants. This blog is maintained by Isaac and Jake Seliger. Isaac has been working [...]

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