Because words are so important in federal grant proposals, your proposal narrative should avoid clichés – words/phrases that have been worn out and have lost their meaning and effectiveness … especially the latter. Clichés distract reviewers from the core of your proposal. They also waste the reviewer’s time, which can be very frustrating. Eliminating clichés, …
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How To Check the Status of Your Employee Retention Credit
After filing your employee retention credit, you’ll want that money to arrive as fast as possible. While you wait, you’ll undoubtedly be left wondering when that refund check will come. This article explains how to check the status of your employee retention credit and offers tips to avoid any delays along the way. Use Bottomline …
The Summer Is A Great Time To Make New Things Start To Happen !! It would be a good time for a Development Program Analysis/Assessment/Audit to take a look at your current fundraising activities/programs to determine: • What you’re not doing that you could do; and, • What you’re doing that you could do more …
Using Moves Management To Secure Foundation Gifts Moves Management, initially developed by G.T. “Buck” Smith and David Dunlop at Cornell University, is a process of managing relationships with individual donors and moving them towards major giving. As cited in the white paper, Moves Management: The Science of Fundraising, according to David Dunlop, “the moves concept …
This posting is based on an email exchange asking about the relationship between bequests and Naming Opportunities (NOs). I have expanded on my responses in that exchange: With regrets, I do not have a set of generic naming policies that I can share. I would, however, be happy to suggest how you might structure such …
Continuing (from Tuesday) to devise/structure the process for rebuilding our relationship with our lapsed donors…. Our next step is to design our solicitation strategies based upon how “major” the lapsed donors’ gifts were … and might be again. That helps us decide whether we just send solicitation letters with return gift envelopes enclosed; if we …
It’s an old saying in development, that your best prospects for the next time are the people who gave to you last time … or the time before that, or the time before. Based on our best knowledge and understanding of the people who’ve given to us before, we should be making case-by-case judgments on …
Why are Executive Summaries so Important? Some federal grant guidelines require an Executive Summary or Project Summary. Some Project Summaries have page limitations and strict rules about their content. However, if the Executive Summary is open-ended you have an opportunity to introduce your narrative and provide a roadmap for reviewers. If your Executive Summary is …
