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How to Write Persuasive Proposals

Grant Training Center

A 2015 meta-analysis of more than 1000 articles with advice to proposal writers showed that most of the top 10 recommendations focus on strategic positioning and project design. 1 I’ve seen scores of presentations advising faculty how to write more competitive grant proposals and I rarely hear anything besides these.

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Grant Writing Tip: Using federal grants to fund building or purchasing/renovating a building

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

We get many calls from nonprofits and public agencies seeking federal grants to build or buy and renovate a building*—the proposed uses could be anything from a youth center to a SUD treatment facility to affordable housing. The Annual Action Plan development process includes an opportunity for local nonprofits to submit funding proposals.

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Ideas Wanted to Increase Participation in Elections

Tech Soup

The 2015 Knight Foundation News Challenge is accepting applications online from February 25 to March 19, 2015. The winners will be announced in June of 2015. No project budget is required for the initial entry. Convert election participation into longer-term civic engagement. An Online Community Building Effort.

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Lever for Change: How ‘big bet philanthropy’ is transforming the sector 

Candid

Give in proportion to the challenge, not organization size The size of gifts should be based not on the size of the organization’s past or current budget but the size of the challenge to be addressed. The number of such competitions has grown from 36 in 2005-09 to almost 600 in 2015-20.

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What Your Grant Professional Really Wants on IGPD By: Shauna O’Toole, MA, CFRE, GPC

Assel Grant Services

We truly know the organization’s story, from budgets to program outcomes, better than almost anyone.” At the least, we want to sit in on these meetings so we can understand the broader organizational context and frame our grant proposals and reports appropriately within this context. of all the work I do.”

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Should You Migrate Your Nonprofit's Website to HTTPS?

Tech Soup

In addition to the phaseout, Mozilla said it will be making proposals to W3C to make sure work is "coordinated across the web community," which presumably means Mozilla's changes could influence other browser vendors, too. Comodo offers donated SSL certificates to nonprofits with budgets of $100,000 or less.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

" Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated. "We do as much as possible on the smallest budget possible.