Nonprofit Online News: There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch: "here Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
By Putnam Barber, June 2005
One of the very early posts to the newly created newsgroup US-NONPROFIT at the start of the 1990s was the query 'Does anyone know how my nonprofit can get a free copy of the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance?' In those far-away days, this guide to federal grant programs was only available as a printed volume. Now, of course, it is searchable online. Meanwhile, online discussion of nonprofit questions continues in both email and UseNet form.
Several posts followed the initial query. There were despairing comments about the price charged by the General Services Administration for the book, and suggestions, such as 'ask your Congresscritter', for ways it might be obtained for free. Then Don Homuth weighed in with a post titled 'TINSTAAFL.'"
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