Grant Writing Confidential

When Seliger + Associates moved its intergalactic headquarters to Tucson, we also decided to buy a new phone system under the assumption that prices were relatively low and hiring someone to set up our old system again would prove sufficiently difficult and expensive to justify buying a new one.
Doing so is harder than it looks—just [...]

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Hey you!! That’s right, you! The nonprofit Executive Director lurking in the back. Confused about how to write foundation proposals? I shouldn’t really do this, but, just between me and you, and if you promise not to tell anyone, I’ll let you in on some of the secrets of writing foundation proposals.
Many nonprofit folks, and [...]

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Buying a copy machine is harder than I thought.
It became a necessary task when Seliger + Associates decamped from Seattle to Tucson and decided to replace most of its aging office equipment. I got tagged with the assignment. This is the first of several posts on my experience.
You’ll end up spending a lot of time [...]

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A brief technical note: I updated some parts of Wordpress, which is our blogging platform. If you notice anything about GWC that behaves in unexpected ways over the next few weeks, please send me an e-mail or leave a comment in this post.

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