Comments on: About Seliger + Associates Grant Writing http://blog.seliger.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Politics and Proposals Don’t Mix: Your Politics (or Your Organization’s) Shouldn’t Matter in Grant Writing, and Neither Should Elections http://blog.seliger.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-22324 Politics and Proposals Don’t Mix: Your Politics (or Your Organization’s) Shouldn’t Matter in Grant Writing, and Neither Should Elections Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:41:51 +0000 #comment-22324 [...] Ed Nelson asks, “Do conservative non-profits get grants or are federal grants such an anathema to them, [and] they choose not to apply?” I want to answer, but the question itself feels wrong because politics shouldn’t be an issue in human service delivery. Politics and political views matter in Congress, which decides what kinds of programs to fund, and can matter in federal rule making that ultimately leads to RFPs being issued, but by the time an RFP is issued, political questions have been resolved and implementation is everything.* [...] [...] Ed Nelson asks, “Do conservative non-profits get grants or are federal grants such an anathema to them, [and] they choose not to apply?” I want to answer, but the question itself feels wrong because politics shouldn’t be an issue in human service delivery. Politics and political views matter in Congress, which decides what kinds of programs to fund, and can matter in federal rule making that ultimately leads to RFPs being issued, but by the time an RFP is issued, political questions have been resolved and implementation is everything.* [...]

]]> By: Ed Nelson http://blog.seliger.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-22110 Ed Nelson Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:08:25 +0000 #comment-22110 Just subscribed to your blog on my Kindle. I like it and your writing style. Hard to imagine paying to read a blog, but, hey, my money is devaluating faster than I can say banana republic. Question: do conservative non-profits get grants or are federal grants such an anathema to them, they choose not to apply for them? Just subscribed to your blog on my Kindle. I like it and your writing style. Hard to imagine paying to read a blog, but, hey, my money is devaluating faster than I can say banana republic.
Question: do conservative non-profits get grants or are federal grants such an anathema to them, they choose not to apply for them?

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