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		<title>I&#8217;ll Have One of Those, Bartender&#8230;&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ll have a cafe-mocha-vodka-Valium-latte to go, please.&#8221; This cheery sign, complete with a picture of a 50s era smiling woman who looks like she just finished waxing the kitchen floor in her socks, keeps me company on my desk. It&#8217;s one of the first things I think of when I&#8217;ve finished a big, honkin&#8217; grant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now is the time&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The start of the New Year is a great time to update the info you use in your grants, the so-called boilerplate details that should be in your files and ready to access at a moment&#8217;s notice: Are your demographics current? Do you know how many people received services in the past year? Did you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Semester is Almost Upon Us&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost that time again. If you are interested in signing up for the Grant Writing for Fundraising class at UCSD Extension, jump on-line ASAP. The class isn&#8217;t quite this crowded, but enrollment tops out at 20. And you wouldn&#8217;t want to miss out on six weeks of me telling you what to write, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As the sun sinks into the west&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;another year is almost history. Did a client receive a major &#8211; or even minor &#8211; grant this year? Count yourself among the lucky ones, and while you&#8217;re doing that, why not take the time to send an end of the year thank-you to the funder? Sure, you&#8217;ve already sent out the formal thank you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tis the Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those working in the nonprofit arena, this is a crazy-busy time of year. There are holiday cards, holiday appeals, holiday thank yous, end of the year appeals, one last holiday event to shoehorn in &#8211; you get the idea. It&#8217;s enough to bring out the Grinch (or the Scrooge, if you&#8217;re not partial to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Work for ? Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a balancing act. At least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m hearing from folks who have commented on the get paid/write for free issue. Katie Nava Ragazzi of the Escondido (CA) Education Foundation, and the brains behind the Escondido Children&#8217;s Museum had this to say: &#8220;The way you voice that distinction is very clear on your blog. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Write for ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To charge or not to charge; that is the question. Several times lately, I&#8217;ve talked to newcomers to the grant and development writing field, and the question comes up: should someone just starting out work for free to build up a client base? To that I say a resounding no. And then yes. Let me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long and Winding Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just nagged gently prodded by a caring reader/dear friend/fellow writer that I have not updated this blog recently. This is a classic case of &#8220;do as I say, not as I do,&#8221; because I am known for nagging gently prodding students, colleages and anyone who asks that it&#8217;s important to come to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Love the Smell of New Notebooks in the Morning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know, I know. This is supposed to be a paperless world. But you and I know that&#8217;s not true. I  may have a ton of backed-up, downloaded, zipped files on my computer, but I also have more than enough folders, brochures, notes and hard copies of grants in my file cabinet as well. Which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with an expert, or taking the mystery out of grant writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a good grant takes balance: you need to have the facts, of course, and you need to have enough heart so that the individual reading the grant is drawn into your story and wants to help you succeed. From time to time, I’ll interview different experts and they’ll share how they put together their [...]]]></description>
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