Grant Writing Confidential

In Mordecai Richler’s hilarious novel Barney’s Version, a discussion arises:
“We’ve got a problem this year. There’s been a decline in the number of anti-Semitic outrages.”
“Yeah. Isn’t that a shame,” I said.
“Don’t get me wrong. I’m against anti-Semitism. But every time some asshole daubs a swastika on a synagogue wall or knocks over a stone in [...]

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Faithful readers know of my Blue Highways post about driving to LA with my daughter following her college graduation last spring. This is my year for road trips, as I recently drove with Jake from Seattle to his new life as a English Literature Ph. D. candidate at the University of Arizona in Tucson. I [...]

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* Imagine our surprise at seeing a client on the front page of CNN:
“AIDS in America today is a black disease,” says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive for 20 years. “2006 CDC data tell us that about half of the just over 1 million Americans living with HIV or [...]

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People often find Grant Writing Confidential by searching for terms like “commission only grant writers,”* “free grant writers,” “free grant writing,” “free grant writing attorneys,” or variations on those themes. I see this just about every week when checking our blog stats, and so I’ll address these anonymous multitudes by saying that, in grant writing, [...]

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