Comments on: They Say a Fella Never Forgets His First Grant Proposal

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Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:18:14 +0000

[...] when I was a Community Organizer Intern in 1972 in North Minneapolis, as noted in my first post, “They Say a Fella Never Forgets His First Grant Proposal.” When I started work, one of my first tasks was to explain to low-income homeowner [...]

By: Dick Dillon

Dick Dillon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:04:52 +0000

Issac, I don’t know if you have given up your radical ideals or not, but as a “grizzled veteran ” of social activism myself I would say that the mere fact that you know what a blog is, much less have one of your own puts you in the top 1/2% of senior individuals in our field who are adopting the new technologies to further our goals. That’s pretty radical!

I look forward to more from both of you.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:59:16 +0000

Isaac and Jake – thank you both for your generosity in sharing the true “ups-and-downs” of the art of grant proposal writing. As a proposal writing specialist who came into this passion in mid-life and after a disability limited my full-time work capabilites. It’s great to hear that after 35 years, you still have the love of writing a well-honed proposal. I agree with the other comments, that I would like to somehow be flagged with an email when a new entry is posted. While I am extraordinarily busy, your site has been useful in the past. I would truly enjoy benefiting from both Isaac’s wisdom and Jake’s fresh insights. Thanks again.

By: James B. McSwain

James B. McSwain — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:13:57 +0000

When I read on the BLOG about grant writing, I cannot shake the observation that to get a grant you must tell people with the money what they want to hear. I find that to be an ethical problem. I am an historian, and I write proposals all the time for small amounts of travel money. But there seems to be no objective criteria by which these grants are awarded, other than to try and have the same number of women and men recipients. So someone is telling the

By: Jake Seliger

Jake Seliger — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:38:33 +0000

Ben -- Thanks for your encouragement! Terre -- I'll look into a notification link. In the meantime, there's an "RSS" link just above the banner on the right side. See this page for how RSS works. I use a program call NetNewsWire.

By: Terre

Terre — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:04:17 +0000

Can you add a feed link so people can sign up to be notified when you post a new article?

Thank you, happy holidays!

Terre

By: Ben Scott

Ben Scott — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:02:29 +0000

Gentlemen: Looking forward to what you will share in the days ahead. I have benefitted greatly from your website and incidentals so far. Thank you, and keep up the good work.

Ben Scott, Ph.D.
Regional Coordinator
Northern Dauphin Revitalization Project, Inc.
http://www.NDRCC.org/Revi