Inside a grant review

and 9 real-life reasons proposals were rejected.

Oct 16, 2020

Hi Everyone,

Pole! I know I’ve been lost. I developed serious pain in my wrist from typing grants and decided to eliminate extra typing until I had a solution. Now I have voice dictation software (which I can recommend if anyone also has a similar problem). Though I had a few strange typos…for some reason “Kenyan” is understood as “Canyon,” which would be a problem for many of the grant applications I write. 😬

Behind the curtain: What do grantors want?

How many times have you wondered “What does this grantor want? How do they decide?” I know, I’ve been there.

Recently, I had an opportunity to sit on the other side of the table and serve as a grant reviewer. Here’s my post about my takeaways as a grant reviewer.

Excuse of the week:

“Sorry I missed the call. I was waiting for someone to flush a cobra off the property. I caught it eating a kitten yesterday.”

-a contact based in India

And to think I have complained about ants…

Worth reading this week

4-year founder vesting is dead and why you should make it 6 or 8 years.

Questions to ask an investor like “What do you think I’m being naïve about?”

Jobs

PR Coordinator (Global)

Mock Reviewer (Healthcare, India)

Grant Writer (All Sectors, All Countries)

Advisor (Sectors: B2B Sales or Processing, Horizon Essential Oil, Kenya)

(If the above interests you send an email)

Grants of the week:

Enterprise Singapore: Energy Open Innovation Challenge. Various problem statements. Worldwide. S$100K- S$1M. Nov 6.

US Govt. WASH. Nigeria. $2M - $10M. Nov 2.

US Govt. Conflict Resolution/Development. DRC. $10M. Nov 24.

US Govt. Conservation/Ecosystem. Bangladesh. $20M max. Oct 29.

Creating Shared Value Prize. Plastics/Waste Treatment, Reusables. Worldwide. $250K. Dec 6.

US Govt. Health/Nutrition: Mothers and Youth. Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Niger, Mozambique, or Uganda. $100 - 300K. RFA to open soon.

Humanitarian Grand Challenges. Humanitarian Aid. Worldwide. CAD 250K if startup. CAD (up to) 3M scale. Nov 16.

Tanzania Livelihoods. $150K. Oct 30.

Thanks for reading. Have a good weekend.

yours,

Kyle