They Say a Fella Never Forgets His First Grant Proposal

This is the first post we published in Nov. 2007, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Enjoy this new LinkedIn Newsletter from Seliger + Associates: Go to?www.seliger.com?to sign up for FREE WEEKLY GRANT ALERTS and click on BLOG to read more than 600 posts about grant writing at Grant Writing Confidential.

1972—A 21-year-old kid who’d taken a few?Saul Alinsky-style?courses in community organizing found himself as a Community Organizing Intern working in North Minneapolis, the mostly Black neighborhood in which he grew up, for the Minneapolis Housing and Redevelopment Authority. His supervisor, Helen Starkweather (who may or may not have been related to the better known?Charlie Starkweather), a former?AFDC?mom and new careerist, let him loose to work on any of the manifold problems in the community. Click here to continue reading: https://seliger.com/2007/11/29/they-say-a-fella-never-forgets-his-first-grant-proposal/