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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. 2008), and that there is too much variability in how reviewers score the same information (Mayo et al., 2006, Graves et al., 2001, Abdoul et al. What other options are there?

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​Choosing the right certification: a guide to grant writing credentials for professionals

Grant Professionals Association

This is the boat I am in; I wrote grants for a decade before GPCI first offered certifications in 2008 (GPA of Lower Hudson, n.d.), However, in addition to being able to write grant proposals, CFREs also demonstrate proficiency in individual giving, major gifts, endowments, direct mail, and fundraising events.

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Foundation Site Visits to Impress

Grant Professionals Association

Make sure everyone has a copy of the proposal or at least a summary. Take advantage of the visit to showcase your programs and bring your proposals to life! Author Bio: Christine Lauren is a biracial/bicultural development consultant with over 20 years of experience in strategic fund development and complex proposal writing.

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Corporate and Foundation Grantseeking: Free Webinar July 12

Tech Soup

After foundation endowments and many corporations were battered by the 2008 recession, the buzz moved away from grantseeking as a viable long-term income source. Eastern time for a webinar in which we’ll touch on how best to make your case, cultivate funders, and craft proposals. Register today for this free grantseeking webinar.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Launched in 2008 to assist individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to societal challenges, the program has invited proposals around a single topic since 2017. September 23, 2021 The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2021 cohort of Open Society Fellows.

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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? A fellow staff member presented me with a Federal grant proposal she had been working on for a couple of months. Simple, there was no defined process.

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Sabotage: Obstruction or Treason

Grant Professionals Association

Despite our best efforts and knowledge, sometimes sabotage can sneak in to derail progress on a project or proposal. This changed the language in other sections we had spent the previous week working on to align throughout the proposal. The Oxford Dictionary lists some common synonyms for sabotage as to undermine, cripple or impair.

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