Hey brother, can you spare a dime? How about $50,000 or so for my non-profit? What if your job was to draft a compelling letter, asking for thousands and thousands of dollars? And you had to do that during a time of economic downturn (to put it politely) not experienced since the Great Depression? That's the challenged faced by the subjects in this edition of your FRONTcover story. And these solicitation soldier scribes aren't just using their persuasive writing skills. They have to write to the granting entities' standards. That often means strict guidelines and deadlines and formatting requirements that would drive most people mad... mad... mad, I tell ya! Meet the people and the business of grant writing in May's FRONT. Even if you aren't trying to secure funding for a worthy organization, you can see what it takes to make something happen when times are not easy. And that's a skill we can all use, regardless of vocation.
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