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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Good morning,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Denial is no longer an option. Winter is upon us; there was frost on my car windows this morning.
<i>Sigh!</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">We have an employee who needs a grants
<b><u>management</u></b><u> </u>training course, as soon as possible. It would be best if it included construction (capital improvements), but we’re most interested in a soup-to-nuts intensive course. I did one many years ago at Grant Writing USA, which was
very good, but last year I did their grants <i>writing</i> one as a refresher, and it wasn’t nearly as good.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">I think a multi-day, in-person experience would be best.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">So, please send any ideas you have, and please share any experiences, positive or not-so-positive. (You can
<a href="mailto:mwalsh@njststelib.org">email me</a> directly for discretion if you prefer.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Hope there’s no frost yet where you live! Let’s save all that cold, white stuff for Christmas Day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Thanks in advance!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Maura
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Maura Walsh, MLIS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
(she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">Grants Manager and LSTA Coordinator
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:#1F3864">New Jersey State Library</span></b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Symbol",sans-serif;color:#1F3864">
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</i></span></b><span style="color:#1F3864">(609) 278-2640 x136<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:#1F3864">E.
</span></b><span style="color:#1F3864"><a href="mailto:mwalsh@njstatelib.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">mwalsh@njstatelib.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:#1F3864">P.O. Box 520, Trenton, NJ 08625<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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