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The ABCs of Development Work

I once met with a program officer who ran a workforce development program for youth exiting from juvenile detention into the community. At one point during the conversation he looked me in the eye and said…

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Why I call it “grant work” and not “grant writing”

If you’ve ever talked with me about grants, you will notice that I rarely use the expression “grant writing”. I most often refer to professionals in the field as doing “grant work”. That is because there is so much more to grants than just the writing…

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Moving Forward is a Form of Resistance

The nonprofit sector, like much of the country, has been in a seemingly endless panic state since Inauguration Day. There has been an unprecedented series of presidential decisions that have devastating consequences…

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