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A disturbing trend in Notices of Funding Availability (NOFOs): the incredible shrinking grant proposal

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

By 2015, almost all federal and most state, local, and foundation proposals could only be submitted online. The final proposal, including the budget narrative, was about 10 single-spaced pages! Around that time, NOFO formatting requirements began to change again. Yes, there were EVs in 1979, but not very good ones.