Gretchen King
Enabling Localization and Locally Led Development: What Should Change?
As a long-time advocate and researcher around locally led development and the increased localization of aid funding, I was very interested..
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Whitney Kippes
- Nov 9, 2021
- 6 min
Bid Boss has Feelings About WorkwithUSAID.org
We know there is potential - and need - for more support from USAID to effectively engage with local partners.
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Gretchen King
- Jul 1, 2020
- 5 min
Building USAID’s Journey to Self-Reliance Policies and Approaches into Your Proposal
The Journey to Self-Reliance (J2SR), the signature initiative of USAID during the Trump Administration, may often be viewed by...
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Whitney Kippes
- Jun 23, 2020
- 3 min
7 Articles to Send to Your HR Department
There's no excuse. We all have to do more to confront racism at a systemic level. When you try to step back and see the whole of systemic...
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SJ Baublitz
- Mar 31, 2020
- 3 min
Time to Marie Kondo Your Pipeline
As a parent of a small child who works from home but has recently lost the benefit of my usual child care, I thought about writing some...
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Whitney Kippes
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
Applications NOW open
There’s no time like the present to start investing in yourself. Take your first step with the Bid Boss Emerging Leaders Program. The Bid...
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Whitney Kippes
- Nov 19, 2019
- 2 min
Where do we go to grow?
Several months ago I wrote about the mentorship gap in business development. Frustrated by what I’d seen, I couldn’t contain my outrage...
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Whitney Kippes
- Aug 6, 2019
- 2 min
Mentorship Gap in Business Development
Good intentions of lots of training and hands-on supervision and mentorship rapidly deteriorate into head-under-water chaos as proposal load
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Whitney Kippes
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Finding Efficiency by Not Bidding
If you are trying to reach sustainable, scalable, strategic growth, there are a lot of methods out there to push your growth strategies...
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Whitney Kippes
- May 28, 2019
- 2 min
Saying no (even when it hurts)
Business development executives need to model a healthy work life balance to retain talented junior staff. In response, you said "Yes!
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Whitney Kippes
- May 21, 2019
- 3 min
Design the Right Team to Win
At this stage in my consulting life, I've seen business development teams of all shapes and sizes. But which one is RIGHT? The answer ma
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Whitney Kippes
- Apr 30, 2019
- 3 min
The Secret to a Strong Business Development Team
Building a strong business development team is about one thing - minimizing turn over. And you don't get that by working your team to de
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Whitney Kippes
- Mar 12, 2019
- 2 min
Why I Hate the Idea of "Shopping Around" a Concept
If I could wave a magic wand and stop one thing, it would be any senior manager suggesting we "shop around" an idea. This is the a
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Whitney Kippes
- Jul 31, 2018
- 2 min
Notes from Humentum 2018
Every year the Humentum (formerly InsideNGO) conference is an opportunity to connect with peer organizations and learn from each other and i
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Whitney Kippes
- Apr 3, 2018
- 2 min
Five Tips for Managing Your Busy Season
Every year it seems like the same old story. Weeks of relative quiet followed by a deluge of work. Managing the seasonality of proposal work
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Whitney Kippes
- Oct 3, 2017
- 2 min
Becoming Our Best Client
Working with a lot of different organizations, I get asked relatively frequently whether my clients are doing things "right." That
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Whitney Kippes
- Jul 4, 2017
- 2 min
Five Essential Proposal Team Roles
The names may change, but the roles stay the same. These are the key roles that help any proposal team have the resources necessary to win a
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