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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. 2006, Graves et al., Reviewers also have issues with the process, including “reviewer fatigue” from having too many proposals to review and too little time in which to do it (Bendiscioli, 2019).

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Three Options for Managing References in Grant Proposals and Other Documents

Peak Proposals

If you work on certain kinds of grant proposals, particularly proposals for research grants, you must cite sources that support your proposed solution, providing evidence of related work and data. Proposal teams often struggle to create a system for organizing background research and correctly citing sources in their proposals.

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The Aggravating Sustainability Question

Grant Professionals Association

Funding proposals without a sustainability plan are like trying to keep a wind-up toy going without a key to re-wind it. Tell them how the proposed solution will continue operating even after their funding is gone. In 2006, he earned a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University.

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What’s on Your Professional Development Bucket List?

Grant Professionals Association

Since 2006, the Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) has ensured resources are available to educate, credential, and assist grant professionals who secure the funding necessary for not-for-profits to serve the greater good. If these are items on your “grant bucket list,” there is funding available to help cover the costs.

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Open Challenges Harness Local Knowledge for Local Change

Tech Soup

Since the first NetSquared challenge in 2006, TechSoup has continued to offer people and organizations opportunities to connect, share ideas, and collaborate; they work on solutions online and offline through events, meetups, and hackathons. How an Idea Becomes an App.

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How to Develop a Cloud-Based Integrated IT System: ENCLUDE in Ireland

Tech Soup

He co-founded ENCLUDE in 2006 to address the challenge that most Irish nonprofits are on the wrong side of the digital divide. I like to propose a formula: T + T = T. He has spent much of his career doing front-line community development among deprived communities in Ireland and Latin America, mostly with the Jesuit Order.

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Hurricanes Helene and Milton reveal a major issue for nonprofits in disaster areas

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

This hurricane season, Republicans are leading the criticism, while during Hurricane Katrina in 2006 the Democrats were lobbing accusations. We’ve all seen the federal responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton in recent weeks being lauded and criticized, depending on who’s ox is being gored.

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