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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

The overwhelming majority of government grants are awarded by a panel of outside reviewers, including 80% of the grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and over 90% of those awarded by the National Science Foundation or NSF (Bendiscioli, 2019). The data indicates … no. 2016, Danthi et al., 2014, Berg, 2013).

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Most callers are surprised to learn from us that the federal government has relatively few programs to fund building construction or acquisition/renovation of buildings of any type. Congress in effect transferred funding for housing and community facilities from the federal government to the states and large cities/counties.

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Spotlight: State of Wyoming

GrantNews

On April 30, 2015, some folks in Laramie, Wyoming danced their way into the Guinness Book of World Records. Community and Economic Development Grants and In-kind Donations for Wyoming Grants to eligible Wyoming nonprofit and for-profit organizations and government agencies to promote tourism.

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Ideas Wanted to Increase Participation in Elections

Tech Soup

And it's very easy to do an application. The 2015 Knight Foundation News Challenge is accepting applications online from February 25 to March 19, 2015. The winners will be announced in June of 2015. Just go to newschallenge.org to explain your idea during the application period. Be brief and be visual.

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Should You Migrate Your Nonprofit's Website to HTTPS?

Tech Soup

Partially because this is the Internet, and web editors have to try pretty hard to make you read articles about application layer protocols. government and important Internet organizations want to see happen, eventually. But the announcement is an important one. So Mozilla is pushing for something that the U.S.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. According to the Baltimore Sun , It was, in fact, the giant snowstorm in 2010 that was the impetus for the federal government to push more employees to work from home.

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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

you have three primary options for raising funds: 1) you can solicit donations from individuals, 2) you can submit proposals to foundations and government agencies to receive grant funding, or 3) you can hold fundraising campaigns and community events to collect donations. Not all grant applications require weeks and months of labor.

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