True Believers and Grant Writing: Two Cautionary Tales

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Like?Spartacus?in the?eponymous?movie*, we’ve been toiling in the grant salt mines for over 30 years. Over that time, about two-thirds of our clients have been nonprofits, while the rest are a mix of public agencies and—in a recent change due to the Stimulus Bill—for-profit businesses. The popular imagination thinks that all nonprofits are run by grim-jawed, speech-making advocates for whatever issue they address, a myth that is reinforced by the occasional movie or TV show that ventures into the nonprofit world. In reality, most nonprofits operate like small businesses (or large businesses in the case of hospitals, the AARP, etc.), and save their outrage for public hearings, fund raising letters and the like. There is another breed of nonprofit, however, and over the years, I estimate about 10% of our nonprofit clients have been what we term?True Believers. Click here to continue reading: https://seliger.com/2009/08/09/true-believers-and-grant-writing-two-cautionary-tales/