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Eight tips for funders to help grantseekers navigate your website?

Candid

Are you currently accepting grant proposals? If it’s currently open, let this info stand alone or stand out at the beginning of your call for applications (bold print, shaded in red, as a headline, or however you can best let grantseekers know you’re ready to help them). . Where in the world are grants being made?

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Top 10 blogs of 2021

Candid

As COVID-19 continued to dominate world headlines in 2021, Candid’s blog readers looked to us for guidance on fundraising in a largely digital world, along with related news and trends in the social sector. What do funders look for in grant proposal budgets? Top fundraising trends to capitalize on in 2021.

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How To: Write Fundraising Auction Item Descriptions

Greater Giving

Use Attention-Grabbing Language To make your headlines and auction item descriptions more tempting, use words that: Convey appeal (excellent, popular, quality, etc.) Rodriguez, the generous donor of this item, proposed to his now wife on this same cruise two decades ago. Indicate comparison (competitive, superior, ultimate, etc.)

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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

Start Your Grant Proposal with a Story. So, why would we not want to use this powerful communication tool when writing grant proposals? When I began writing proposals, storytelling was the only way I knew to convey the problems my organization faced and what we were doing to overcome those problems. Some Winning Stories.

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How to Get More Subscribers for Your Digital Newsletter

NonProfit Hub

Keep in mind, however, that popup headlines are best when they’re clever and specific to your organization. If you feel like your newsletter’s content alone won’t be enough to convince people to subscribe, propose a special deal or bonus along with it. “Sign up and get…”. Want [xyz] sent straight to your inbox every week?”.

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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dreadful disaster stories are still making headlines; isn’t the public tired of giving? For example, we saw that donations to the South Asia Floods (starting August 17) increased after Harvey Floods led the headlines in August 28-20. What You Can Do To Prevent Donor Fatigue.

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First day in Davos

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There are roughly thirty social entrepreneurs here at the Forum, headlined by such famous leading SEs as Muhammad Yunus and Fazle Abed of Bangladesh. Four of the social entrepreneurs then made brief presentations about their GRI proposals that had been chosen by the WEF to present to the conference.