Posts for : November 2019

Its All Basic Greek To Me

November 28, 2019 Natalio Krasnogor Design Patterns, Ethos, Influence, Logos, Non-sale selling, Pathos, Persuation, Rhetoric

One of the best ways to improve your grant hacking skills is to methodically track your successes and failures and regularly going back to the text of these grants and…

On The Shoulders Of Giants

November 20, 2019 Natalio Krasnogor Boosting Chances Indicators, General, Little Bets, Planning

For this post, I thought I would do something a bit different, namely, collect a few -seven to be precise- posts on grant writing advice by people who know better…

One Idea To Rule Them All

November 15, 2019 Natalio Krasnogor Boosting Chances Indicators, Design Thinking, Grant Hackers Storyboard, Low-fidelity Prototype, Minimal Viable Product, One Idea, Three-sized Stickies

I learn, the hard way, that the core design principle for a grant -indeed the golden rule- is that a grant must have one idea and one idea only. The…

Prototype Your Grant In 30 Minutes Or Less

November 7, 2019 Natalio Krasnogor Design Thinking, Design-Build-Test, Grant Hackers Storyboard, Little Bets, Minimal Viable Product, Procrastination

A grant proposal is a product. Its single purpose is to convince people to give you money. Like any other product under the sun, a grant must be designed before it…