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The Journey of Grantwriting: Part 1

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Bonnie Zachowski

Bonnie Zachowski is CEO of Golden Rule Grant Consultants, L.L.C. She has over thirty years of executive and administrative experience, with diverse skills in grant writing for Foundations and Governmental Grants in multiple areas. She has been a grant reviewer for local area grants. She has a degree in Business Management from Sawyer Technical College, and training from The Grantsmanship Center (TGCI), Cuyahoga Community College, and Lakeland Community College. She continues to teach grant writing classes at Kent State University, Ashtabula, Ohio. She participated in a one million dollar capital campaign for a new emergency department located in Ashtabula County, Ohio. Bonnie serves as Vice President on the Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) for the City of Geneva, Ohio, along with participating on funding allocations board for the local area Ashtabula United Way agency. Click here to email Bonnie directly with any grantwriting questions.

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• The Journey of Grantwriting - Part II

When drafting your Needs Statement, also known as your Problem Statement, this is the list of “Doom and Gloom Words” I refer to frequently.

Just as a reminder, Doom and Gloom words are dramatic language used to make your submission stand apart from the others.

List of Doom and Gloom Words:

A-Abandoned, abominable, abruptly, abscess, agonize,

B- Backslide, badly, bankrupt, barbaric, bare, barren, battery, because

C- Cancel, capture, cast, categorical, cessation, cesspool, circumvent, citizenry,

D-Damage, dangerous, debilitate, decrease, deep-seated, difference, dire, disaster

E- Earmark, ebb, essential, eventual, evoke, economically depressed, embrace

F- Face, facilitate, fail, fared, fateful, fearful, firsthand, force, foremost

G- Gang, gauge, generate, genesis, glaring, glimpse, glimmer, global, glut

H- Habitual halfhearted, halfway, halt,

I-Identify, ideology, idle, ignorance, ill-adapted, illiterate, illusion, image

J- Jaded, journey, judge, junction, just, justifiable

K-Keeper, kick kindness, kindred

L-Laborious, lacerated, lack languish, lapse, leaving, lessen

M-Magnetic, magnitude, mainstay, major malcontent, manifest

N-Naïve, narrow, nearly, necessary, needful, neglect

O-Obligation, obscure, obstruction, occurrence, offensive

P- Pacify, pain, pale, paralyze, past, penetrate, perplex

Q-Qualify, quest, questionable

R-Radical, radius, random, rank, range, rash (adjective), realistic

S-Sabotage, sacred, saddened, salvage, scarce, secluded, senseless

T-Taboo, tangible, temporary, tend, tenure, term, terrible threadbare, threaten

U-Ulterior, ultimate, unacceptable, unaware, unbending

V-Vacant, valid, vandalize, variable, vast, viable

W-Want, warn, wary, waste, weaken, weigh

Y-Yearn, yesteryear

Z-Zero, zone

Recognition of resources utilized: “Advanced Grant Proposal Writing” Dr. Beverly Browning. “Grant Writing for Dummies, editions 1 & 2” Dr. Beverly Browning

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Stay tuned for Part 2 to add to your current grant writing tool box!