The cliche goes, “Chance favors the prepared mind,” and we could repurpose it to, “Short deadlines favor the prepared nonprofit.” I have the dubious pleasure of reading the Federal Register every week and have noticed that deadlines are shrinking like hemlines. This means the organizations that apply with a complete and technically correct proposal are, [...]
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Thirty day deadlines favor the prepared
September 17th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Advice · Deadlines · Government · Grants
One Person, One Task: Who’s in Charge of Your Proposal?
May 16th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Who is in charge of completing and submitting your proposal? You should immediately be able to say, “Jane Doe. Or “John Doe.” Whoever. Can you instantly think of that person’s name—the person who gets the praise if the proposal is submitted on time and technically correct or the blame if it isn’t? If you can’t, [...]
Tags: Advice · Clients · Deadlines · Nonprofits
What Budget Cuts? The RFPs Continue to Pour Out: Educational Opportunities Centers, Carol M. White PEP, HUD Section 202 & 811, Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control, and California’s Proposition 84
April 19th, 2011 · 3 Comments
Faithful readers will have noticed a paucity of recent blog posts. There’s a reason: we’re fantastically busy. Despite all of the media gnashing of teeth regarding the Republican–Democratic tussles over the FY ’11 Continuing Resolutions (which was resolved a week or two ago) not much actually happened. A list of final ’11 CR reductions might [...]
Tags: Deadlines · Grants · Programs · RFPs
Talent Search RFP Finally Published — But What A Stupid Deadline
November 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Last Sunday I posed the question, “Searching for Talent Search: Where Oh Where Has the Talent Search RFP Gone And Why is It A Secret?.” I still don’t know why the RFP release date was a secret, but on Wednesday, the Department of Education finally published the Talent Search application instructions. Hallelujah, or as my [...]
Tags: Deadlines · Education · Government · Programs
Speaking of Short Deadlines, Notice the Strengthening Institutions Program, the Susan Harwood Training Grant Program, the Linkage to Life Program: Rebuilding Broken Bridges for Minority Families Impacted by HIV/AIDS, and Minority Community HIV/AIDS Partnership: Preventing Risky Behaviors Among Minority College Students
July 10th, 2010 · No Comments
In a recent post, Isaac said that “Another client, for whom we wrote a funded Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control (LBPHC) Program proposal last year, was just at the grantee meeting. The HUD program officer told the group that all of the NOFAs are late this year (duh!) but would be issued with short turnarounds—just like [...]
Tags: Advice · Deadlines · Government · Grants
You Know You’re a Grant Writer If, Among Other Things, a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Service Area Competition (SAC) Deadline Vexes You
May 24th, 2009 · 9 Comments
You know you’re a grant writer if… You’re reading the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Service Area Competition (SAC) and discover that the deadline is July 6. You’re frustrated because Monday, July 6 is a holiday for most people: the Fourth of July is Saturday, so the “holiday” part is the Monday after, which [...]
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