Developing winning proposals is a complex task, one that requires input and insight from various stakeholders. One integral step in this process is the "color team review." Here's a step-by-step guide to facilitate a Pink or Red color team review like a boss.

Entering the world of humanitarian or international development proposal management as a Gen Z professional can be both thrilling and challenging. One of the most crucial skills you'll need to master early on is managing up—that is, effectively managing your relationship with your supervisors and ...

In today's competitive job market, building a robust professional network is crucial. Whether you're a proposal coordinator, proposal manager, or team leader, having strong connections with your professional community can open doors you never knew existed. Especially in the world of new business ...

The BD Life Cycle is a strategic blueprint that guides an organization from an open phase of considering many possible opportunities to a targeted process of developing a proposal and securing a contract for a specific opportunity. Most international development organizations use a variation of the ...

Proposal people make stress work for them. If you couldn't handle a healthy dose of stress and use it to push you and your team over the finish line, you wouldn't be in this line of work. I'm familiar with (and identify with!) the attitude that deadlines are what makes you productive. Anyone who ...

Every year Bid Boss supports a number of clients in their applications in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress and McGovern-Dole Food for Education program solicitations with strategic advising, proposal writing, proposal management, and cost proposal support. ...

Writing powerful and engaging proposals is a significant aspect of business development in the humanitarian and international development sectors. It's not just about directly responding to the evaluation criteria or requirements, but it's about crafting a narrative that allows the reader to fully ...

To advance our Bid Boss mission to avoid burnout, I try to keep current on reading, podcasts, and training on sustainable work practices and productivity boosters. I will confess that at least half the time I end up skimming after the first paragraph because the recommended practices are just not ...

If we learned anything after our sudden plunge into fully remote work, it was that meetings are core to how we do business. But should they be? We spent a lot of this past year thinking about meetings and what makes an efficient virtual meeting place.

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is quite young, compared to many international development agencies, but that doesn't mean it sprang out of nowhere! As with many aspects of the UK's history, there is a long colonial and post-colonial legacy necessary to understand how the ...