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	<title>SHOW ME THE GRANT MONEY!</title>
	<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com</link>
	<description>Retool your gray matter with JONATHAN O'BRIEN and win more grant money!</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Notes to a screenwriter</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=55</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>GENERAL</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Occasionally in my blogdom, I&#8217;m going to share with you correspondence I have with grantwriters and screenwriters and writers of all types.  Why here?  Because it&#8217;s all about storytelling.  Some of these thoughts could just as easily apply to a proposal&#8217;s program design.
	By about page 40 I completely understood why your feedback [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants and Success Rates - Part 2</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=54</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>GENERAL</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING CAREER</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=54</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	So, just between you, me and this blog &#8212; do the math.  Not the defense contractor type, but honest math. Calculate your success rate into a percentage &#8212; the number of grants (full proposals, not letters) won divided by the number of grants written.   
	If the grant writing business were to establish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants and Success Rates</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=53</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>GENERAL</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING CAREER</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=53</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I talk to a lot of people who write a lot of grants but don&#8217;t necessarily win a lot of grants.   That&#8217;s like saying we talk to a lot of major league baseball hitters who get a lot of at-bats but don&#8217;t necessarily get many hits. It goes with the territory. Three hits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants for Libraries - Thinking Outside the Bookshelves Part 4</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=52</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=52#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>PROGRAM DESIGN</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Q.  What are the three things grant applicants can do to better their chances of receiving funding?
	A. Compartmentalize.  Be specific.  Avoid asking for general funds to do general things or operational tasks.  View your agency like a department store and asks for grant funds to support the efforts of one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants for Libraries - Thinking Outside the Bookshelves Part 4</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=51</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=51#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>PROGRAM DESIGN</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=51</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Q. You promised to share &#8220;three reasons your past grant proposals may not have been funded.&#8221;
	A.  We just talked about one of them.  In my book, I devote at least three chapters to the concept of collaboration with the basic theme, &#8220;collaborate or die.&#8221;  Funding agencies frown upon applicants who try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants for Libraries - Thinking Outside the Bookshelves Part 3</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=50</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=50#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>PROGRAM DESIGN</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Q. Now that we have the concept where do we find grant money?
	A.  One place is all the usual suspects.  Most governmental agencies and libraries are bombarded with announcements about grants.  Then, you can easily occupy several days by searching the Internet for &#8220;grants,&#8221; &#8220;grant resources,&#8221; &#8220;grant funds,&#8221; etc.  Also there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants For Libraries - Thinking Outside the Bookshelves Part 2</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=49</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=49#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>PROGRAM DESIGN</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Q.  So it&#8217;s not about the writing?
	A.  Make no mistake, funding agencies expect proposals to be clear, uncluttered, easy-to-follow, concise and compelling – meaning persuasive and creative.  They don&#8217;t give bonus points for big words are technical jargon and they certainly aren&#8217;t impressed with anyone who tries to come across as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grants for Libraries:  Thinking Outside the Bookshelves - Part 1</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=48</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=48#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>PROGRAM DESIGN</category>
	<category>GRANT WRITING</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	After completing an interview for an article for the upcoming American Library Association Mid-Winter meeting this month in Denver, I thought the content would be appropriate to anyone with a good heart and a good cause.
	Q. What can you offer attendees beyond what the ALA Website offers, which has an entire section devoted to &#8220;Grants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MISTAKES?  I&#8217;VE MADE A FEW…THOUSAND – Pt.8</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=47</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=47#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>GENERAL</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=47</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Here&#8217;s hoping that by reading about the proposal pot holes that I never saw coming, you&#8217;ll see a few in time to swerve out of their way.
	But, as the saying goes, if you don&#8217;t make mistakes then you&#8217;re not trying. 
	If that&#8217;s the case I&#8217;ve tried really, really, really&#160; hard.&#160; 
	More about this in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MISTAKES?  I&#8217;VE MADE A FEW…THOUSAND – Pt.7</title>
		<link>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=46</link>
		<comments>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=46#respond</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon</dc:creator>
		
	<category>GENERAL</category>
		<guid>http://showmethegrantmoney.sandypointink.com/?p=46</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	THE CASE OF VIVA LOST WAGES
	Project:&#160; School-site health prevention/intervention program involving Nurse Practitioners (Nps) and trained and supervised parents.
	What Happened:&#160; Simply, we stated what a part-time NP would make working in this program &#8212; let&#8217;s use the rate of $65 per hour.&#160; That might be considered excessive until you consider:

According to a survey of NPS [...]]]></description>
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