Tag: grant proposal

A Few Fall Grant Opportunities

Are blogs out of fashion?  I don’t know, but I do know that I have not written anything significant to post in a long time.  Reasons abound for my lack of posts.  Some are work-related.  It took a while, but the scientific community found me and a consulting firm put me on as a contract …

Referrals and the New Year

A new year always begins with good intentions. 2017 was that way.  I had good plans to curate non-federal research grant opportunities every month and include a short blog post about grant proposal writing or the post-academic life. That lasted until April. So, what happened? Referrals for substantive grant proposal and manuscript consulting work happened.

Answering the So What? Question

A Grant Professional Association colleague of mine likes to challenge nonprofits and grant writers with asking them, “So what?”  Likewise it’s a challenge to researchers.  As an open-ended question, this stops people in their tracks about their or the organization’s mission and goals. It should stop academic scientists too. To me, it is about taking …