Category: grants
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Keep everything!
If for your daily life, you live, moment by moment, I hope in the end, you keep the little things, the sight of blue jays, the love for new days, endless tears, falling rain.
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Keep the idea of delegating however hard with your grants!
I had a meeting yesterday with a dear friend that was checking into my grant submission goals for the year. They are of course a lot and insane and we are so ready to dream. One thing she noted was that I needed to delegate. I said if you have been burned like me, like…
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Keep the cycle of grant writers!
I’m always in a circle. Always beginning just when I thought I was finished. The function, the very true function of an artist is to dance to a different beat. So goes a grant writer. We write grants because we are always drumming a new tune differently. Grants invariable rebel against what is norm. If…
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Keep this meaning of life!
For the freedom of your dreams, future joys and open eyes, live. Through ways silent and wise, the seed of your spirit and undiscovered roads, learn. When things happen and everything changes, pray. Through time and life, through the best and worst in souls, love. The above are from Ben Okri. My mood for this…
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Keep leaning not on your own!
October of another year and I still see eyes, wide that mirror my soul. I am still daring heights with wonder and dreams still nestle in my soul. I know hope is a thing you never do alone, even if you die alone. I keep finding it all the way down in myself, where it…
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Keep following your path!
The insides of my thoughts, after a dizzying season of grant writing goes like this: what’s the next one? any other one? how about another one? surely there must be another one. We follow these thoughts down the path where ideas go to labor, we peek, we pry, we resolve instead to not sit and cry,…
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Keep moments where you begin again!
Yesterday I returned home after being away for a week. The past one month, I have been on a rollercoaster ride of my own doing, that slowly came to a halt yesterday in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere on the journey from Amsterdam to Detroit. I took the time to reflect on what can…
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Keep Onyeka, the latest NIH pre-doctoral scholar at WashU!
Nearly 15 years after becoming an NIH predoctoral scholar, it brings me great joy to pass the baton to my doctoral student, Onyekachukwu Anikamadu, MPH, CPH, the latest NIH predoctoral scholar in town. What is mentoring? To me these days is ensuring that those entrusted to your care get to live out their dreams their…
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Keep 4 youth by youth (4yby) and its approach to innovative youth-driven research!
Research for me these days begins from a place of experience and deep thought, innovation too. Almost six years ago, I embarked on a research experience that changed my life. I was coming off a streak of research proposals that failed tremendously as grants and losing sight of what my sheer purpose in life and…
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Keep writing grants like the high point of life or dreams!
We begin again, only this time with a new team. Held a grant-writing workshop that lasted for 5-days last May. It was a first of its kind where only writing each day was allowed. Five of us made an attempt to write. We did and ended up with a single page. Crossed the box of…
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Keep knowing that being fearless still with your funds are enough!
I am learning these days, that everything beautiful about the world we live in is enough. That’s what Toni Morrison would want us to remember. With the craziness of a day, even the crazy things we experience is enough. Like our fearless funds. Sometimes words too are not needed. No need to speak or share…
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Keep dream, like flowers, like grants that begin again!
We are writing grants again. We began on Monday to prep for what maybe the start of a journey toward returning home. For the past 15 years all my grants have been global, focused on my birth country Nigeria. Lately, and because home is really Saint Louis, really the US, as I have spent most…
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