Comments on: Project NUTRIA: A Study in Project Concept Development

By: Seliger’s Quick Guide to Developing Federal Grant Budgets

Seliger’s Quick Guide to Developing Federal Grant Budgets — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:21:02 +0000

[...] without being dragged to the intake center. The Outreach Workers will conduct outreach, using the Project NUTRIA van (see the Van Lease line item below in the Contractual Category for more detail), since the [...]

By: Seliger’s Quick Guide to Developing Foundation Grant Budgets

Seliger’s Quick Guide to Developing Foundation Grant Budgets — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:28:14 +0000

[...] a descriptive title at the top of the spreadsheet, such as “Project NUTRIA Three-Year Line Budget Spreadsheet and Justification.” Don’t forget to add your agency name above the title.* I like the look of the Center [...]

By: Project GEESE is Project NUTRIA At a Table Near You. Also, HRSA’s Service Area Competition (SAC) FOA is out

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:23:01 +0000

[...] idea might sound familiar to Grant Writing Confidential readers. Isaac wrote a post called “Project NUTRIA: A Study in Project Concept Development, which describes how to conceptualize project development while parodying some of the crazy [...]

By: Processes and Outcomes: The Shape of Another Grant Wave, featuring HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods Initiative

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:15:06 +0000

[...] apply, you’re going to write a proposal based loosely on the same format discussed in “Project NUTRIA: A Study in Project Concept Development,” except you’re going to give academic enrichment and life skills training to at-risk [...]

By: Take Time to Develop a Proposal Timeline

Take Time to Develop a Proposal Timeline — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:02:26 +0000

[...] elements for a human services timeline, like the one that might go with Isaac’s hypothetical Project NUTRIA. If you’re doing a capital campaign, you’d have a different set of milestones relating [...]

By: How’d You Like a 20% Discount on Grant Writing? You Got It, As Long as You are Willing to Go Against Conventional Wisdom!

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:10:16 +0000

[...] homeless services provider in Portland to use the service delivery model I developed satirically in Project NUTRIA: A Study in Project Concept Development. I’ll give you the acronym at no charge: Project FISH (Feed the Indigent/Salmon for [...]

By: PSST! Listen, Do You Want to Know a Secret? Do you Promise Not to Tell?* Here’s How to Write Foundation Proposals

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:58:32 +0000

[...] particularly if you can link the project to some emerging crisis. If you were going to fund Project NUTRIA, as we described it in an earlier post, you would pitch it as a special [...]

By: Zan

Zan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:01:48 +0000

Oh yes. I particularly like “individuals experiencing incarceration,” as though a serial rapist just woke up one morning and opted to head for prison instead of yoga class.