text: Competitive bidding also became easier with a reputation to back up his grant proposals , and Dudovitz soon was raising enough to develop slick promotional materials and to share funds with other public interest programs to cement collaborative efforts on health care , policy advocacy , homelessness , domestic-violence assistance , self-help and technology development .
  
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  The more Dudovitz 's reputation grew , the harder it became for him to engage in competitive bidding .