Diane H. Leonard and her team have secured over $65 million in grant funding. She knows how critical storytelling is to a proposal receiving funding. In this episode, Diane discusses

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• how critical building a relationship with a grant maker is (hint: You want them advocating for you)
  
• the importance of having a storytelling bank
  
• how a grant proposal budget can also tell a story and
  
• why you never want to force a grant maker to do algebra.