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What Should You Be Doing: Fundraising or Pursuing Grant Money?

Peak Proposals

Based on hundreds of emails we’ve received since we launched Peak Proposals in 2015, we have observed that many people appear to assume that if you are a nonprofit organization and if you need revenue, then you must pursue grant funding. Fundraising requires skills in areas such as event planning and donor cultivation.

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Justice40: Getting federal funds to communities that need it most

American City & Country

Envision the Choptank was founded in 2015 to help solve that problem. Envision also cultivated trust by partnering with community ambassadors. For Jonestown’s community ambassadors, working with Pollack on the grant application helped cultivate new capacities and connections. “I I had no experience in grant writing,” says Lake.