{"id":510,"date":"2010-04-12T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2010-04-12T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T21:30:00","slug":"some-grants-are-like-peanut-butter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Some Grants Are Like Peanut Butter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here we go again….. Non-profit consultant and expert grant writer, Derek Link, shares yet another food-related grant writing analogy.\u00a0 What do you<\/em> do when the words just get stuck in your head?<\/p>\n

In all the time I\u2019ve been writing grants, I find that some grants flow easily out of my brain to my computer and others get stuck to the roof of my mouth like a spoonful of peanut butter. I sit at the computer during those times like my old German Short-Haired Pointer \u201cTucker\u201d eating peanut butter, just gumming and gumming and gumming but not able to free up the narrative.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard sometimes to figure out why I\u2019m stuck with a grant, but often it\u2019s because I don\u2019t have a clear picture of the program I am writing. Oh, I know what the program is about, but I just can\u2019t explain how it\u2019s going to work. Here are a few things I try to get the narrative \u201cpeanut butter\u201d off the roof of my mouth.<\/p>\n

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  1. Develop a logic model for the project. This forces you to outline your thinking in a sequential (and logical) way.<\/li>\n
  2. Do a little reading about the topic area you are writing about. Sometimes that gives me the spark I need.<\/li>\n
  3. Talk more to the client about the program design and get them to expound on how they see it working.<\/li>\n
  4. Try to write the abstract. If you can\u2019t write a summary of the project, this may explain the parts of it that you\u2019re stuck on.<\/li>\n
  5. Revisit your goals and objectives. Sometimes your objectives are just activities and if they are, you\u2019ll get stuck because you won\u2019t have anything new to write about in the program section. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So when you\u2019ve eaten a big gob of peanut butter and its stuck to the roof of your mouth and you\u2019re sitting at the computer trying to get unstuck, try one of these five ideas. Hope it helps!<\/p>\n

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    Here we go again….. Non-profit consultant and expert grant writer, Derek Link, shares yet another food-related grant writing analogy.\u00a0 What do you do when the words just get stuck in your head? In all the time I\u2019ve been writing grants, I find that some grants flow easily out of my brain to my computer and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[157,16,7,108,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-derek-link","category-grant-writing","category-grants","category-non-profit","category-non-profit-grant-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p353rU-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}