{"id":1732,"date":"2020-01-23T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2020-01-31T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:00:33","slug":"want-to-strengthen-your-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/want-to-strengthen-your-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to strengthen your narratives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243;][et_pb_column _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243; type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.9&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<p>This past week I have been knee-deep in grant reviews.\u00a0 While I love reading other people&#8217;s program designs, my absolute favorite part is seeing the strengths and weaknesses of other proposals.\u00a0 Not that I&#8217;m trying to pick apart another grant writers writing ability, but I am able to learn what makes for a weak response vs. a strong response.<\/p>\n<p>This week I realized, no matter if you are an obscure nonprofit or a well-known entity, the quality of your program design is what sells the reviewer.\u00a0 For example, a well-known entity responded to this RFP and on the surface, it was a great application&#8230;until you walk away and process what they were saying.\u00a0 That is all it was, a surface-level response.\u00a0 People harp on goals, objectives and project design but it is truly what makes a proposal!<\/p>\n<p>So, I hope you take away two things from this little post:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Become a grant reviewer!\u00a0 It will definitely enhance your writing ability!<\/li>\n<li>Seriously focus on good project design, this includes goals and objectives&#8230;it will save your proposal!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I have been knee-deep in grant reviews.\u00a0 While I love reading other people&#8217;s program designs, my absolute favorite part is seeing the strengths and weaknesses of other proposals.\u00a0 Not that I&#8217;m trying to pick apart another grant writers writing ability, but I am able to learn what makes for a weak response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,10,37,19],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grantpro","tag-grant-professional","tag-grant-professionals-association","tag-grant-strategy","tag-grant-writing-basics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}