Harvey Chess
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This website is dedicated to those people in non-profit organizations who are the grant seekers, some called grant writers, chasing down government grants in the public sector and researching foundation grant making in the private sector. These are the people among whom it has been my good fortune to develop a body of work as a consultant and trainer. At my age, 74, I am eager to leverage my knowledge with every tool I can find, and have finally arrived at this medium as part of the mix. So, you will discover information about my just completed book and upcoming workshops, along with bits and pieces of my life's findings when you click on the tabs to the right.
My first brush with grants came in 1964, when I was hired as a career-conditional federal employee at the Office of Economic Opportunity (RIP) after acing the Civil Service Entrance examination. My work as a field representative started with conversations about summer Head Start grant applications. And though the context has broadened, I've kept having conversations about grants ever since.
During the intervening years, I have come to appreciate much of the lore about grants, ranging from their seductiveness to their disparagement. I can tell you confidently that they emerge again and again as the object of attention if not affection among people representing nonprofit organizations; and that they can be an essential part of the persistent need among such nonprofit organizations to develop resources.
Most important of all, I have come to believe that there is an extraordinary opportunity for nonprofit organizations writing proposals in pursuit of grants to internally strengthen themselves at the same time.
On the one hand, I continue to be amazed by how often this deceptively simple concept of adding value to a fundamental activity is missing in action. On the other hand, I am gratified because fostering the development of this principle has marked all of my work, and kept me busy for many a year.
You won't be surprised, then, that this website reveals the extent to which I remain dedicated to the proposition that nonprofit organizations need to adopt a strength-based approach to their grant seeking.
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