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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

In 2008, I accepted a position as a Major Gifts Officer at the largest independent nonprofit air and space museum in the world. Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession? As I looked through a very well-written application, I came to the budget page which committed our organization to several hundred thousand dollars of cost share.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. My dissertation was on the rhetorics of advocacy in Appalachia, and I knew from my field research that nonprofits in the region could use help with their communications and grant writing.

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Trump Administration Pauses New Grant Agreements with Bombshell OMB Memo: Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

This should not be a surpriseas President Obama famously stated in 2008: elections have consequences. This process typically involves review and modification of funding programs and solicitations for grant funding to reflect incoming administration priorities. appeared first on Seliger + Associates Grant Writing.

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The 2024 Election: A Grant Writer’s Post Mortem

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

The most recent election that seemed historically consequential was 2008, but I’m old enough to remember 1980, which was a true watershed. We sat in stunned silence as this dude ticked off the many proposed budget cuts to federal discretionary grant programs (our “mother’s milk”). Boy was I wrong.

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