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How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal

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While you can use several marketing elements from your individual donor campaigns in your grant applications, creating effective proposals requires some additional considerations. Below, we’ll cover nine best practices and tips on how to write a winning grant proposal. Leverage Language and Formatting From Past Grants.

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Unlocking change: Free access to Candid’s nonprofit resources

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Candid’s ongoing commitment is to ensure all nonprofits and their communities have equitable access to Candid’s resources. Daily RFP alerts: Receive automatic updates on grantmakers issuing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) related to your nonprofit’s area of expertise.

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Visibility and relationships: Effective fundraising for small nonprofits

Candid

Grassroots organizations provide vital services to local communities, yet they struggle to compete for grants against large national nonprofits that can leverage robust development teams, considerable fundraising experience, and established relationships with grantmakers. Keep the lines of communication open.

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Empowering grassroots organizations: building capacity, diversity, and relationships

Candid

I often refer to the post-World War II period, when civil and human rights movements came to the forefront, along with community-organized philanthropic organizations. Foundation, we trust those who are closest to the issues affecting their communities. Prioritizing women- and people of color-led grassroots organizations At the Ms.

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In Defense of Community Managers

Amy Sample Ward

There are definitely times when community building and even campaigning or organizing feels just like that! But, operating as a community organizer or manager is such a filling and critical role for programs, platforms and even campaigns to be successful that the idea of herding cats turns into searching youtube for cutest kitten videos.

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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

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While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round. To illustrate, by the time 2023 Pride began on June 1, there were already over 500 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation proposed or passed in state legislatures across the country.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. M-Changa strives to make it convenient for local NGOs to accept both mobile and card payments.

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