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How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back

sgEngage

If you want to lower your meeting number, try time-blocking your non-meeting activities, such as writing a grant proposal or working on the budget for next fiscal year. For example, this week, you need an hour to work on a presentation for your next board meeting and two hours to write a grant proposal.

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4 Signs You Are A Burned Out Nonprofit Fundraiser

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You’ve smiled through back-to-back-to-back-to-back meetings with donors and your best donor prospect just cancelled on you, and now you’ve got to finish that grant report before you can go home. If you’re having trouble focusing, you may be suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting at work.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

You can’t take your brand for granted. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” Fundraisers must understand they no longer just write hard copy fundraising letters and grant proposals.

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#40BetterHours: The Art of Single Tasking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s some things she mentioned that I thought were useful: The new digital literacy is not finding the information, but being able to make choices when you had enough information flood your brain and take the time to synthesize. “Batch Concepts” – If you are working on five different stories, don’t jump around.

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How to Make People Believe in Your Cause

NonProfit Hub

Members of the panel can then choose to invest or not invest in the proposed business. After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. Almost every nonprofit experiences this, whether they’re applying for grant funding, asking for donations or recruiting board members. So, how can you get them to believe?

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Hemingway: A Simple Online Tool for Better Short-Form Writing

Museum 2.0

Grant proposals. Then I started using it for chunks of grant proposals. In proposals, it can be easy to fall into jargon and long, convoluted sentences. Now I find Hemingway infiltrating my brain when writing almost anything--including this blog post. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. It''s ideal for that.

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Fundwriter.ai 101 – Can A Robot Write Better Than You?

The Fundraising Authority

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai