sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. It is critical for you, foundation leadership, and community participants to be clear who is making which decisions.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting! Conducting research to find grants and funding opportunities is definitely the place to start if you want to be successful at getting grants and separating yourself from the strugglers. Before you start researching, make sure you understand what you need funds for exactly. Determine costs.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. As they wait, organizations, ideas, and potential progress suffer, and the riskier and newer a proposal feels, the more it is placed in the wait-and-see category.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 81

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 9, 2016

Except for the lucky few organizations with large endowments or patrons with deep pockets, finding new funding sources and asking for money are key functions of charitable and advocacy organizations. This means every proposal or appeal you write has a lot of competition. This applies to how you use your language too.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 25, 2024

When written well, these will help you generate excitement, entice attendees to bid, and increase the funds you generate from your event. Use Attention-Grabbing Language To make your headlines and auction item descriptions more tempting, use words that: Convey appeal (excellent, popular, quality, etc.)

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Fundraising Template Storytelling Headline 98

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. At the level of language, there is not. In my experience, two dominant frames are now shared by foundations and nonprofits. The second is the equation of funding or delivering services with achieving results.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Your nonprofit’s mission is the foundation of everything you do. Have you had any major changes in funding? Next, ask about what language resonates with them. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. The language in the mission statement should feel the same way that the brand feels.

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Examples Language Iowa Nonprofit 95

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Make small changes, perhaps tweak the language a little or edit the question into a simpler format. What do your questions or materials say about you, your foundation, or your family? What if English is not their first language? Your goal should be to efficiently collect the exact information you need to make a funding decision.

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 91

Bloomerang

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Prior to 2011, the majority of my career was spent at small and mid-size organizations, where a large part of the funding came from foundations, corporations, and government grants.

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Develop Pennsylvania Mentoring Newsletter 123

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 8, 2016

In the nonprofit world, the beneficiaries of nonprofit services usually provide little, if any, of the revenue to fund the services they receive. 5 Best Practices for Nonprofit Funding: 1. Your mission needs funding to be sustainable and successful. Negotiate While Nurture Your Funding Relationships.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Exploring funding source prospects. A strong fundraising strategic plan starts with a solid foundational case statement. Check your organization’s website, recent RFPs, grant proposals, etc. for the most current language being used and incorporate it into your plan. Exploring funding source prospects.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Knight Foundation has launched a particularly interesting Knight News Challenge this year. The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. The Knight Foundation wants to do something about it. They won't fund overhead costs or administrative fees.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 23, 2021

Connection is essential to truly practice empathy, which is the foundation of the nonprofit sector. Empathy is the language of nonprofit donation requests, annual reports and case studies. This focus on funding first can be a dangerous rabbit hole for nonprofits. They let their innovative spirit guide their strategic planning.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

If this isn’t practical for you, you can also suggest language callers can use in an email–especially if this is your donor’s preferred method of communication. Assume in your tone and language your donor simply has forgotten or has just not got around to it due to the busyness of daily life. Personal handwriting packs a punch!

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Action Strategy Donor Calendar 138

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Whether it’s rethinking how they contact their donors, the language they use on donor calls, where they ’ re direct ing their funds, or even how they ’ re partnering with students to drive donor engagement. The API’s make it possible for you the seamlessly bring in fund disbursement data into your Student Information System.

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Virtual Blackbaud Award Wisconsin 28

Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2017

We have been learning from both front line fundraisers and the organizations that fund them that stating intended outcomes in your pitch conversations and in your grant applications is becoming increasingly important so that funders can clearly see what specific results your organization is driving towards.

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Fundraising Measure Grant Collaboration 26

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But my first gift was to the World Wildlife Foundation, and I just … I still support them. So that’s how you sort of lay that foundation, you start activating it, and then you progress. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. .

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People Community Video Podcast 81

Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

This year more than ever, nonprofits will struggle to secure funding, and for many, even clients. Unless the right people know about, learn about, or feel good about your work, you won’t have the people to work with or the funding to serve them. For any gift, whether that from direct mail or a foundation proposal, you need all three.

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Skills Professional Philadelphia University 98

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. And, if we’re worried, a lot of other good organizations should start getting worried!

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eBook China Copyright Library 277

Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are some branding elements you should keep consistent across your operations and include in your organization’s style guide: Overall mission and goals Audience Tone and language Colors Logo Fonts. Whatever it is you choose, lean into the human angle of the story and use descriptive language to connect with your reader.

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Donation Tips Donor Sponsor 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. If you don’t know Funding for Good, their principal, Mandy Pearce, has been on our webinar series many, many times over the last few years, recommended Marie as her top expert. You may be saying, “What do donors want to fund?”

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Report Measure Process Impact 83

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With the support of the National Breakfast Foundation, we could improve the memory, alertness, and concentration of 2,000 CCC students like Alyssa by providing a free, healthy breakfast each morning.”. Demonstrate the impact of your past programs and the projected impact of the proposed program, as well as the associated costs and risks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

This meeting was a follow-up for me from my attendance earlier this year at the main WEF meeting in Davos , where I presented my proposal as part of the GRI. My proposal was on ensuring that all of humanity benefits from the incredible knowledge and technology. We need to encourage limitations and exceptions (like the one in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. And, if we’re worried, a lot of other good organizations should start getting worried!

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eBook Copyright China Law 107

NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

The 20-person department pulls the information from scanned PDFs of the filings, enter the information into their database, and classify the information in the Foundation Center taxonomy. Foundation Center has been working on automating much of this work. A few other takeaways: Foundation Center’s new tool is amazeballs.

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Data Conference Report Proposal 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

She said it can happen in one of two ways—either the organization is small enough that no one will notice, or has a director with such strong vision they can charm and fund the pants off of a new idea. MARCUSA did the research and the Heinz endowment and the Alcoa foundation paid for it. It was not a tough sell. But we’re a non-profit.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

Many wills and trusts are still written with quite formal language and might be similar to this example: “ I give, bequeath, and devise the sum of fifty-thousand dollars ($50,000) to Middletown Library, located at 123 Main Sreet, Middletown, Wyoming. Non-probate Transfer Vehicles: More than half of all states in the U.S.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 31, 2022

Maybe a major funder reduced their donation or stopped funding your organization altogether. Sometimes funders change their priorities and you are left having no idea why they stopped funding you. But even when you are not overly dependent on a single funding source, losing a big donor can impact your nonprofit goal.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Platforms such as Decidim , Citizen Lab , and Your Priorities can effectively engage communities throughout the process of making budget, policy, and funding decisions. It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools. They can make engagement easier, more transparent, and more accessible.

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Online Participatory Proposal Platform 101

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. GrantAdvisor allows anyone in the nonprofit community to anonymously write reviews about their grant experiences with foundations. Dulingo provides access to free language learning tools. Squarespace :: squarespace.com. See also Duda and Wix.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. Built for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. Squarespace :: squarespace.com. Productivity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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