Many organizations can use grant writing to fund their projects — Grant writing has become a passion of mine. Helping non-profit organizations do their work seems like the best use of my talents. When I left the tech world, I started writing here, on Medium and I took a couple of writing courses as well. I studied copywriting with Sarah Turner…

Where does Your Nonprofit Fit In? — The main focus of my career is writing grants for nonprofits and small businesses. Part of that work is identifying different nonprofit organizations' funding strategies and funding models. Knowing how a nonprofit works help my work in finding the right grant funders for their work. The following is a summary…

The most common plants and unique animals — Did you know Ukraine was a wild mushroom foragers' dream? One of the major tourist attractions to Ukraine had been their wild mushroom foraging excursions. Ukraine has also been home to many types of storks and brown bears. A new industry around the picking or foraging of wild mushrooms in…

What Will 2022 Bring to Rust Programmers — 2022 is looking to be a great year to be a Rust programmer. Rust is not quite mainstream yet, but with its loyal user base and growing use cases around the tech world, it is easy to see how Rust will continue to grow and flourish in 2022. I have…

The unique animals of Ukraine — One of the biggest parks in the nation, the Carpathian National Nature Park has the name of the crossing mountain range and is situated close to the western border with Romania. Visitors can see plenty of deer, martens, eagles, owls, foxes, and other common species while hiking along the meandering…

Improve your Writing and Improve your Product Design — People often say that writing is easy. All you have to do is put some thoughts into words and then bam, you’ve got a blog post, an email, or a book. But if writing were really that easy, everyone would be doing it. The truth is that writing is one…

Oregon, North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana all have the Western Meadowlark as their official bird of state. But what is the bird that represents Kansas? Actually, it’s the same bird. The Western Meadowlark was selected as the state bird of the Sunflower State in 1925. However, the state bird…

Buddhist Lessons for Today — 1. Detachment is living one’s own life while letting friends and family live as they choose At first glance, we would all likely say we can do that. But the fact of the matter is that most of us try, not very subtly, to make others live as we choose. We may have forgotten that everyone has their own agenda to live through. When we interfere…

Writer’s Advice from William Faulkner — The phrase “kill your darlings” is a metaphor meaning to avoid having an excessive attachment for our own work. Widely attributed to William Faulkner, the phrase is a reminder for writers to be cautious about the work they produce. …