We ask all our clients to have a preliminary conversation with prospective funders before preparing to submit a proposal to them. For many, cold calling seems like a daunting task until they realize the benefits of calling and that they already know what to say. Here are some of our best pointers for calling funders.<\/p>\n
Introduce Yourself and the Opportunity You Present<\/strong> Before you call, it\u2019s helpful to prepare yourself. Remember that you are offering the funder a unique opportunity: the chance to invest in something very important\u2014your nonprofit! <\/p>\n Because many funders are interested in outcomes in terms of benefits to the community, make a list of the concrete ways in which your organization improves the community, as well as how things will improve even more with their funding. Be prepared to tell them about: We ask all our clients to have a preliminary conversation with prospective funders before preparing to submit a proposal to them. For many, cold calling seems like a daunting task until they realize the benefits of calling and that they already know what to say. Here are some of our best pointers for calling funders. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,45,9,10,37,19],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grantpro","tag-funder-relations","tag-grant-professional","tag-grant-professionals-association","tag-grant-strategy","tag-grant-writing-basics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boydgrants.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
You\u2019ve probably heard that it\u2019s important to network with prospective funders. The idea behind this advice is that foundations like to know the organizations they\u2019re investing in. You stand a better chance of receiving dollars once funders feel that you\u2019re a good investment.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Your community
\u2022 Targeted problem or need
\u2022 Who you are and your mission<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"