Are you putting your best foot forward?
Many nonprofits, especially new organizations, try to get attention from funders by putting urgency on their own needs to provide essential services. Unfortunately, this presents your organization as one that needs help.
The end result? Your organization is part of the “problem to be solved.”
Fortunately, there are more compelling ways to get attention from grantmakers. Being a solution-oriented organization that “gets things done” will draw the positive attention you are looking for.
During this TargetED, Alice Ruhnke will help you identify ways you can infuse your strengths throughout your proposals. Grantseeking is a competitive process and it is important to demonstrate to a funder (or any donor) the solutions your nonprofit provides to challenges in the community.
You’ll learn:
- easy ways to identify your organization's strengths using a variety of stakeholders;
- how to infuse your solutions and strengths throughout your proposals; and,
- how to put your best foot forward when working with grantmakers so they always view you in a positive light.
This TargetED is ideal for any member of a nonprofit organization working with external constituents, including executive staff, grantwriters, board of directors, fundraisers, partnership developers, and marketing personnel.
This session included 30 minutes of practical teaching and 15 minutes of Q&A with Alice so you walk away with the ability to look at your nonprofit organization through a strength-based lens instead of a deficit model.
Alice Ruhnke
Alice Ruhnke is the President of GrantStation. Having raised over $45 million from federal, state, and private grantmakers, she knows what it takes to get funded. As a former nonprofit program coordinator and director, and the Founder of The Grant Advantage, Alice has a deep understanding of the challenges that nonprofits face. Over the last 20 years she's worked in the trenches with hundreds of nonprofit organizations to improve their capacity to raise funds. Alice is an author and educator with a passion to share her expertise. Her insightful trainings on grant proposal writing and development, community change models, service projects, and measuring outcomes have helped over 4,000 individuals positively impact their communities.
