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Non-profit Development

Public Comment Invited

2010-04-09

Services for Independent Living (SIL) provides services for people with disabilities in seven Missouri counties: Audrain, Callaway, Cooper, Howard, Montgomery, and Randolph. Services include peer support, information and referral, independent living skills training, and advocacy. SIL’s mission is to empower people with disabilities to live as independently as possible and control their own lives, and to [...]

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Upcoming Training: Building Program Budgets

2010-03-11

Our next grant writing training will be held on March, 18 from 11:00AM to 1:00PM. In our last class we learned how to create a fund development plan. This week’s class helps participants understand how funders use the Form 990 (nonprofit tax return) as a way of evaluating the organization and the grant proposal, and how [...]

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Why should I consider hiring an outside grant writer?

2010-02-21

Grant writing is easily pushed to the backburner in the face of daily client and organizational issues that need to be addressed. Add to that the large amounts time required to network in the community, build partnerships, and advocate for an organization; the less immediate payoff of grant writing moves to the bottom of the priority list.

The result: your organization loses out on potentially huge monetary payoffs, and valuable relationships with corporate and foundation funders.

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