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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Share your drafts to get constructive feedback. D in sociology: He had added language and statistics that we wouldn’t have thought to use in the sections covering our need for the grant, what populations would be served, and how we planned to measure outcomes. Start working on your narrative early.

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From Lucy to Leadership, Part 1: We Are All Africans

Fundraising Leadership

Didn’t we invent psychology, sociology, and anthropology because we are obsessed with understanding who we are and why we behave as we do? My iPad drew a small crowd of adults and children alike as I stepped out of my tent with it on the banks of the Omo River in Ethiopia. Don’t we check how we look when we pass a mirror?

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

You, your partner, and your children are greeted by name, maybe even with warm hugs. Niles and Drew, “Constructing the Modern American Midwife.”. Alicia Suarez, “Black midwifery in the United States: Past, present, and future,” Sociology Compass 14, no. —Audre Lorde (“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”) 1. 11 (November 2020): 1–12.

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

They clothe themselves and their children according to the correctional dress code, submitting to searches of their bodies and belongings and myriad forms of intimate regulation and humiliation. The Mental Health of Mothers with Children by Recently Incarcerated Fathers,” American Sociological Review 77, no. 2 (2012): 216–43.