Comments on: The Danger Zone: Common RFP Traps http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: If You Want Free Samples, Go To Costco; If You Actually Want Proposal Writing, Go To A Grant Writer http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/comment-page-1/#comment-17534 If You Want Free Samples, Go To Costco; If You Actually Want Proposal Writing, Go To A Grant Writer Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:50:52 +0000 http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/#comment-17534 [...] no two RFPs are alike and even annual federal RFPs change from year to year, as we discussed in The Danger Zone: Common RFP Traps; the information about your specific agency and area obviously won’t be in the sample [...] [...] no two RFPs are alike and even annual federal RFPs change from year to year, as we discussed in The Danger Zone: Common RFP Traps; the information about your specific agency and area obviously won’t be in the sample [...]

]]> By: One Person, One Proposal: Don’t Split Grant Writing Tasks http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/comment-page-1/#comment-11951 One Person, One Proposal: Don’t Split Grant Writing Tasks Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:11:09 +0000 http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/#comment-11951 [...] With a proposal, you’re writing a novel, not an operating system. If no one in your organization can write an entire proposal on their own, you should hire someone who can—either a consultant, in which case you’ve come the right place, or an employee, who can write proposals over and over. There are pros and cons to each, which I’ll write about further in a future post, but having multiple writers in a single proposal is an unambiguously bad idea, which experience has taught us and other grant writers. In fact, it’s so bad that Isaac probably could have noted it in The Danger Zone: Common RFP Traps. [...] [...] With a proposal, you’re writing a novel, not an operating system. If no one in your organization can write an entire proposal on their own, you should hire someone who can—either a consultant, in which case you’ve come the right place, or an employee, who can write proposals over and over. There are pros and cons to each, which I’ll write about further in a future post, but having multiple writers in a single proposal is an unambiguously bad idea, which experience has taught us and other grant writers. In fact, it’s so bad that Isaac probably could have noted it in The Danger Zone: Common RFP Traps. [...]

]]> By: Henryetter Curtis http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/comment-page-1/#comment-203 Henryetter Curtis Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:10:20 +0000 http://blog.seliger.com/2008/03/07/the-danger-zone-common-rfp-traps/#comment-203 After reading this article I found that it is very helpful, and included many of the traps that I have noticed in writing and reviewing proposal. Thank you for my learning and reaffirming of very important information. All who are seeking grants should read this article. Thank you, Henryetter After reading this article I found that it is very helpful, and included many of the traps that I have noticed in writing and reviewing proposal.

Thank you for my learning and reaffirming of very important information. All who are seeking grants should read this article.

Thank you,

Henryetter

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