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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? For example, I inherited the reporting phase for a project in which we had committed to improving a visitor metric that we HAD NEVER actually measured!

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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. There’s so much experimentation in entrepreneurship, and you have to create your own metrics for success, whereas in academia, your main metric for success is being hired and then being tenured and promoted.

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