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Getting Out of Comfort Zones

HSF House

I’ve expanded on my knowledge of types of research, such as learning how to write proposals, to interview individuals, and steps to community engagement. I will also be writing for the Nomadic Noles Magazine, a new experience as I have not wrote for a news magazine in a while.

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Are You Justified? Text Alignment in Your Grant Proposal

Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

Submitting a maximally reviewer friendly grant application is essential to developing advocacy among the assigned reviewers of your proposal. This blog post concentrates on text alignment, and future posts are planned to address other tips to make your proposal reviewer friendly. Which is better for a grant proposal?

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Describing Library Problems that Need Funding

PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

This section needs to clearly describe the problem your proposed activity will solve. For the purposes of illustration, let’s say that you plan to apply for funds to create a youth literary magazine. Your statement of the problem needs to clearly describe the problem the magazine will solve.

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Readers Make Better Writers

Fundraising HayDay

Whether you love paperback books, audio books, newspapers, magazines, grant proposals, letters, or any reading medium, the written word is a powerful thing that impacts our own writing. Your Fundraising HayDay cohosts are big believers that reading is a vital component to quality writing skills.

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Need Is Not Enough To Win Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

From dubious quizzes about your soul mate in 1980s women’s magazines to Buzzfeed’s endless supply of “decorate your dream house, and we’ll guess your eye color,” I’m always game to give it a go and rarely seem to match up with what should be the correct answer. I’m a sucker for a quiz. It’s all in fun.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

On the site, social entrepreneurs propose their idea or project, set a funding goal, and identify a “tipping point.” and Thrasher Skateboard Magazine. StartSomeGood is a “ crowdfunding ” platform, inspired by the success of sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

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How to Create a Cloud-Based Style Guide

Peak Proposals

Publishers and forums of all kinds--from magazine publishers, academic publishers, and corporate websites—use a style guide to ensure that their materials have a uniform look (formatting, design) and language (word choice, spelling, grammar). Grant proposals also need style guides. But how do you do this?