http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog This is the official blog for We Write For You, LLC, a writing and editing service provider Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:04:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was giving a little talk yesterday about writing grant proposals when something slipped out that surprised even me. I said, “I think I was successful in my last grant competition because of the strong appendix I attached.” I did a mental double take. Did I just say I won a ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=468 For many years, writers were taught to include two spaces after periods and certain other punctuation marks, such as colons. There was good reason for this at the time: Typewriters produced a typeface that made it aesthetically unpleasant to have only one space separating sentences. However, those days are long gone. ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=458 Today's post is for those of you who operate a nonprofit organization. To be successful, your organization needs dedicated volunteers and board members. The best way to secure that dedication is by keeping these folks in touch with your activities. This can be done through email messages, a post on your ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=447 Most of the time, persuasive writing is used in competitive situations. It is the resume, when you compete with others to get the job. It is the grant proposal, when you compete with others to get funding. It is any time you compete with peers to get donors, votes and even ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=427 We have done the work for you to find websites that provide sources for corporate and foundation grants. One of the best websites listing resources on a variety of grants -- government and private -- is posted on About.com. This Grantsmanship Center website holds the mother lode for a grantwriter. A ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=387 Government grant opportunities are easy to find since every agency lists its open grant competitions on its website. Grants from all agencies can be found at Grants.gov, now the federal government's official grants portal. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance also lists all federal grants. It can be found here. Both of these ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=359 If you're ever uncertain about how to spell a word, it's always worth the time to look it up. As we mentioned in this earlier post, it takes only seconds to look up a word on an online dictionary. By the same token, if you write quite a bit, it's definitely ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=346 Here are some basic mistakes that do not get flagged by a spell checker. Can you spot all the errors? I consider people talking loudly on there cell phones in public to be offense of. They should of taken care of business at home or at there work sight. Do they ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=339 I have never been around a grant where a politician has influenced which applicant gets funded. These days, government grant administrators have become insulated from political intervention. They use outside experts -- variously called reviewers, readers or evaluators -- to read and score proposals, removing themselves from the ultimate decision. Grant ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=306 [caption id="" align="alignright" width="226" caption="A winning grant proposal is error-free."][/caption] In the last post, we talked about how clear and grammatically-correct writing alone is not enough to get your proposal funded. On the other hand, a proposal that meets funding criteria and is submitted by a worthy organization will not be ... http://www.wewriteforyou.com/Blog/?p=296