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A Free Agent for Hunger: Pittsburgh Tote Bag Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sue Kerr has put her social media savvy to work to fight hunger in the Greater Pittsburgh area and save the environment. So, I contacted the Food Bank and proposed we collaborate. We plan to repeat every September to honor Hunger Action Month.” It began informally with a few drives here and there over an 18 month period.

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How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal

Classy

While you can use several marketing elements from your individual donor campaigns in your grant applications, creating effective proposals requires some additional considerations. Below, we’ll cover nine best practices and tips on how to write a winning grant proposal. Leverage Language and Formatting From Past Grants.

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Telling a compelling story: Communicating program impact in a grant proposal

Candid

While only some grantmakers ask you to submit a logic model, virtually all expect the narrative of your proposal—the description of how the program works, its purpose, and its results—to include the same information as a logic model would. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve?

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‘Graceful way out’: Investors propose some struggling founders close shop and return funding

TechCrunch

It’s a reasonable proposal. If there’s one thing investors love, it’s an entrepreneur whose prior startup wasn’t super successful — whether the entrepreneur ran out of money or returned money is immaterial to the calculus — but still has the hunger to build something huge and ideally related to the first company.

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Steal This Thank You Letter! A Sample Donor Thank You Letter for Your Non-Profit

The Fundraising Authority

This AI writing assistant will help you write appeals, proposals, thank-you letters and a lot more. Your generous donation of $200 will go a long way to helping us end child hunger in Toledo and beyond. Stop Searching for Sample Letters. If you spend more than 5 hours a month writing, then I recommend using Fundwriter.ai. Thank you !

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Tableau Foundation partners reflect on 2020 and data for impact

Tableau

Addressing a global pandemic and economic crisis while also driving for change in other areas—from racial inequity to equitable education to hunger—is a monumental challenge. It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. . December 28, 2020 - 9:59pm. December 27, 2020.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%). Why is that? 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer. 83% regularly vote.

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