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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. Costs to contract for website development services.

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When Looking to Diversify Your Development Office, Widen Your Lens

Bloomerang

I’ve heard that to be a major gift officer you have to have access to people with money, be comfortable socializing with them, and speak their language. After all, is not the business of fundraising, well, to raise money? Secondly, everybody with money is not white, or bigoted, or uncomfortable meeting with people unlike themselves.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. On behalf of your organization, investigate ways to receive money that the organization may not have in place already. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Next Steps After Purchasing Donor Analytics

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a director of development who wants advice on how to quickly and efficiently find the best major gift and planned giving prospects: Dear Charity Clairity, We recently purchased donor analytics and now have a database overlay indicating who has major gift and planned gift likelihood.

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12 Lessons For Fundraisers After Hearing “No” From A Major Donor Prospect

Bloomerang

You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” To successfully secure gifts of time and money you have to be ready to hear no.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Will Grant Funders Give To You If You Have Too Much Individual Funding?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a Director of Development who wants advice on what to do when the board thinks their individual fundraising success will depress grants. Dear Charity Clairity, I’m the Director of Development for a successful organization that has vision, capacity, and a proven track record of success.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

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For one, it’s usually a lot of money. Also, getting a grant means a funder values your nonprofit and trusts you’ll put their money to good use. Like it’s free money just waiting to be plucked from a tree. Keep brainstorming until you can’t think of anything else you might need money for. A Grant is What We Need (or is it?)

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