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What is USAID’s Secret Pleasure? – JadedAid Card Stories Way back in March 2015, when we developed the very first set of JadedAid question cards, my favorite was... View Article
This is the USAID Proposal You Always Wanted to Write We know the pain of USAID proposals. The intense RFP jargon, passive RFI sentences, and endless pages of obtuse contract... View Article
That Time We Asked USAID for $1 Million in JadedAid Funding… Deep in the midst of our Kickstarter last year, we got a cheeky tweet and decided to submit a crowdsourced... View Article