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26 May Parallelism: Lining Up Your Lists to Avoid Throwing Your Reader a Curveball. By Tom Assel, GPC
We’re grant writers. We often have to fit lots of content into character, word, or page limits. We always have to worry about keeping a reader’s attention. One way we condense content is by using a series, a list of three or more items separated by commas. One way to confuse readers and lose their attention is to write series that don’t make sense. This blog post will help you avoid that so you can write as clearly and concisely as possible.
23 May KidsTLC Receives a $75,000 Grant from the Sarli Foundation
KidsTLC was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from the Sarli Foundation to support agency growth and sustainability. KidsTLC will be making numerous technology upgrades to support their electronic health records software as well as improvements in staff recruitment and retention. Operating support allows KidsTLC to provide services to all families in need, regardless of their ability to pay.
23 May Kansas City Arts Institute (KCAI) Receives a $15,000 Grant from the Sosland Foundation
Kansas City Arts Institute (KCAI) was recently awarded a $15,000 grant from the Sosland Foundation to support the KCAI Fund which supports ongoing academic initiatives and general operations of the College.
23 May Developing Potential, Inc. was Recently Awarded a $50,000 Grant from the Health Forward Foundation
Developing Potential, Inc. was recently awarded a $50,000 grant from the Health Forward Foundation, Applicant Defined Grant to support the Increase Access to Services program. The program serves all DPI participants (160) and staff (65). These funds will support the program’s full-time registered nurse. The nurse oversees DPI’s medical services, providing direct support through comprehensive health assessments, medication administrations, choking risk assessments, GI tube feedings, and many other tasks. The nurse also educates program participants and staff on healthy lifestyle topics, and trains staff in medical issues like medication side effects, fall awareness and prevention, procedures for addressing seizures, and many more.
23 May Liberty Community Chorus (LCC) Receives $1,750 Grant from the Missouri Arts Council
Liberty Community Chorus (LCC) was recently awarded a $1,750 grant from the Missouri Arts Council to support their 2019-2020 Combined Christmas Concert. This support will guarantee the Chorus can continue to provide an avenue for singers to give high-quality performances for the Northland community.
23 May KidsTLC Receives $2,000 Grant from the Johnson County Bar Foundation
KidsTLC recently received a grant for $2,000 from the Johnson County Bar Foundation to support their Thriving Families program. KidsTLC’s Thriving Families program is available to help all families navigate the complexities of finding mental health/health care and daily living support. This eliminates barriers and helps them have better family relationships and improve mental health issues for themselves and their children.
16 May Less is (Usually) More – Writing Lessons Learned from my Children by Michele Ryan, GPC
Like many of you, school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic have placed me in the - let’s be honest - not entirely welcome position of balancing a full-time career with my new role of homeschool teacher. I naively and, looking back on it, pompously believed that this would be a piece of cake. I have teenagers, not small children who demand constant attention. They are good students. How hard can it be? Hard. Harder than I thought possible.
11 May Organizing the Chaos By Tracey Diefenbach, GPC
You are knee deep in a large government grant proposal and… The executive director calls you on the way to another meeting and quickly ambles off a new strategy the agency will be embarking on that must be included in the proposal. The finance person sends you an email with three new expenses to include in the budget. As you are leaving a meeting with the evaluation team, you are told about a new assessment tool the agency will be implementing…