Archive for the ‘ Grants ’ Category
Top 10 Grantwriting Mistakes People Make-Guest Post by Tonya Pennie
As a grantwriter and grant panelist I’m fortunate to have experience on both sides of the grantmaking process. Here’s my list of the Top 10 grantwriting mistakes people make, plus one bonus one!
Your Fundraising Plan Checklist
Here is a Fundraising Plan Checklist that you can use every time you start a new appeal, campaign, event, or grant proposal. How much do we want to raise? Are you going to try to raise $3,000 with your annual report? Are you going to try to raise $20,000 with an event? What is a [...]
Teaching other people how to fundraise
Are you the lone development person, or even part of a small team? What is one of your biggest problems? If you answered “Capacity” I think you’d be right. How can you build your capacity to raise more money? Well, you can’t put more hours in the day, and you can’t hire more people. Budgets [...]
20 Money Saving Tips for Fundraisers
3. Batch your fundraising appeal letters. Send out 150 at a time. Test out different messages, graphs, charts, quotes, pictures, see what works with who. This way you can avoid an appeal letter that bombs.
Are You Fundraising in a Small Shop?
If you are fundraising in a small shop, I salute you. It is hard. You come to work and often receive no kudos or respect for what you do. I want you to know that I know what you’re going through. And I appreciate that you take a small part of your limited time to read this.
What your funders want to see: Subjective vs. Objective Measurements
Camilla Nevill at the New Philanthropy Capital Blog has just made a fascinating post about the concept of happiness in funding. What she asks is, should we be measuring things like well-being as well as test scores when deciding if a nonprofit is fulfilling its mission?
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For your favorite comic artist-a grant deadline
Do you know a person who loves to draw and write comics? If so, they could get up to $5,000 to publish a comic book with this grant.
Could your nonprofit get government contracts?
If you’ve combed the Foundation Center Database over and over, it might be time to start thinking big with your nonprofit. What do you do that the government would like done? Whether it’s providing social services or cleaning up the environment, you could get a steady stream of income from your local or federal government.
Ask your volunteers
What is your call to action like? Is it as good as Amplify Your Voice? If not, consider how to engage a volunteer, no matter what time of the day or night it is, with the skills that they possess right now. Do they like to blog? Make it easy for them to create a blog post about your organization. Do they want to get involved in your next phone-a-thon, special event, walk-a-thon? Then post the date and signup sheet there too. Make it exciting with pictures. Make it easy. They’ll come back again and again to keep working with you.
Cabinet of Curiosities-Crowdsource solutions
So could we use the internet like a giant filing cabinet, but actually filled with useful best practices information, entered by our 1.9 million nonprofits?
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