What a funder reads first
The three places a reviewer looks before the rest, and how to make each one count.
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Short lessons from my desk, one every Tuesday: writing, planning, budgets and funders.
Turning a vague idea into a clear aim
A whiteboard walk from a loose idea to one sentence a stranger can repeat.
A budget that matches your story
Lining up each line of the budget with a sentence in the proposal.
Finding funders that fit
How to read a call for proposals and decide in ten minutes whether to apply.
Writing the need without begging
How to describe a problem with numbers and a few plain sentences.
Drawing a simple logic model
Inputs, activities and results on one page, and how to use it in the text.
Plain Proposals
A short letter every Friday about grant writing: one small part of a proposal, one mistake to avoid and one thing to try this week.
“The one email I open the day it lands.”