Preventing Post-Award Panic

Preventing post-award panic: Eight strategies to keep your cool when your grant goes awry   Picture this: You’re a grant professional with a report coming due. The project director sent a programmatic crisis update that spiked your blood pressure into the stratosphere. Maybe someone “forgot” to purchase a big-ticket piece of equipment in your grant…

Four Advantages of Working with a Consultant—Especially in Unpredictable Times

We’re quickly approaching the most wonderful time of the year for many organizations—annual budgeting.  Not so wonderful, you say? Budgeting is always challenging, and this year, the process promises to be even more adventuresome. Individual donors and foundations have seen their investment portfolios swing wildly since March, and many events have been cancelled with uncertain…

When You Don’t Know What to Say

“It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue” – Stephen Fry. We often turn to clichés when we don’t know what to say. We’ve all been there before: we’re asked a question we don’t know the answer to. Or we weren’t paying attention when the…

Helping the Helpers

By now your social media feeds must be chock-full of Mr. Rogers memes with his quote that includes “Look for the helpers.” His advice was beautiful and well-crafted, and intended for his primary audience of his television show, Mister Rogers Neighborhood, pre-school children and their parents. This famous advice emerged from a series of tips…