Earmarks could come back: That’s great news for governance and nonprofits
I was wrong about earmarks. Like a lot of good-government types, I opposed earmarks (which are sole-recipient funds to specific organizations allocated by Congress) and thought earmarks were a sign of...
View ArticleCoding school is becoming everyone’s favorite form of job training
For many years, construction skills training (often but not always in the form of YouthBuild) was every funder’s and every nonprofit’s favorite form of job training, often supplemented by entry-level...
View ArticleDo “child-care deserts” highlighted in the Washington Post really exist?
The Washington Post says, “A Minnesota community wants to fix its child-care crisis. It’s harder than it imagined.” Duluth City Councilperson Arik Forsman wants to solve the “region’s child-care...
View ArticleCOVID-19, donations, and foundation and government grant proposals
We’ve been in business since 1994 and have written proposals during several economic shocks; in the Great Recession in 2009, donations to nonprofits began drying up as soon as the stock market began...
View ArticleSmash-and-grab robbery epidemic, economic development, and grant writing
There seems to be a growing smash-and-grab flash mob phenomenon, which is being widely reported in the media, with the practice starting in California, New York City, and Chicago and now spreading to...
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The effects of early childhood education programs don’t look good: a large,...
There’s a large, new study out on the “Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievement and behavior through sixth grade,” and it’s important and unusual because of its...
View ArticleDepressing NAEP math and reading assessments provide grant-writing...
Despite the media’s fascination with irrelevancies like the Kardashians and moment-by-moment interpersonal political drama, many outlets at least partially covered the disastrous recent National Center...
View ArticleWill we see involuntary confinement return, and what does that mean for...
The Atlantic has a long book excerpt titled “American Madness: Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five...
View ArticleBad nonprofits: An unfortunate reality of charitable giving in America
I recently saw an article about “The WORST charities in America? These are the organizations giving over 90 PERCENT of donations to their fatcat executives – while ignoring their causes.” Anyone who’s...
View ArticleUrban doom loops mean that a new “Grant Wave” is forming
Many nonprofit and local government executives think that federal and foundation grant funding priorities are relatively static, but they’re not—we’ve written about grant waves before, and a massive...
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