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5 Essential RFP Writing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Pulling from experience with thousands of RFPs, Prosal shares five best practices to enhance your RFP writing process. Engage in online forums, email listservs, and directly with vendors or agencies. 5) Broaden Your Reach When Sharing Don’t limit your RFP to your immediate network. Read other RFPs to understand what works.

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8 Actionable steps for any nonprofit RFP

EveryAction

About half of the 100+ consultants I’ve interviewed this year alone say they will skip an RFP if it doesn’t share an available budget—including one helps you make sure you’re capturing the attention of all the potential knowledge and partnership that’s out there! Share your ideal outcome. Share the RFP outside your network.

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Sharing my #EpicThanks – please join me!

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it’s on listservs, forums, blogs, facebook, twitter or anywhere else – there are so many people looking to foster open dialogue on issues important to and impacting the work of changemakers, activists and innovators around the world. I really hope you’ll join me in sharing your Epic Thanks!

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5 Proven Tips for Building Your Nonprofits Email List

NetWits

With that in mind we thought we’d share a few suggestions for getting visitors to subscribe to your email list: 1. If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. Location, Location, Location. In other words, put it where it can easily be found, preferably above the fold.

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September Wrap-Up Community Builder Chat: Online, Offline, and Migration

Amy Sample Ward

There was some really rich conversation with lots of great ideas shared and best practices recommended. Question 1 : asked about migrating a community from one tool to another, specifically from listservs to a website/forum. Get the full transcript here! Question 2 : asked how to build a loop between on and offline engagement.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. Probably an issue that we should all be looking at.

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November Member Round-Up: Data satellites, women in nonprofit tech, and horrifying your middle school teacher

NTEN

M+R shares 6 Rules for Online Writing that just might shatter some old grammar rules. AASP''s listserv, Fundsvcs, won the grand prize in the 2013-2014 LISTSERV Choice Awards. If you''ve got some happenings and news of your own to share, let us know and we''ll feature it in an upcoming Member News.