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Grant Writing For

Your Care Farm

May Monthly Member Gathering

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Where To Start?

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Where To Start?

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Telling Your Story

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Who Will You Serve?

What Is Your Purpose?

What Will You Offer?

What Are Your Values?

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When someone is emotionally invested, they’re far more likely to feel attached. And donate.

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The power of a great story can be used as a core fundraising technique. Your story’s ‘objective’ is both to educate and to evoke powerful feelings of empathy. So, getting someone to ‘feel’ through what you’re telling them is an important part of your story. It may make the difference between them waving you away or being willing to help.

When a funder is emotionally invested, they’re far more likely to feel attached to that thing. And to donate.

And attachment breeds loyalty. The donor wants to keep connected over a longer period of time so they can make an impact. They may even become so passionate they continue your legacy by sharing your story onwards within their social circles.

When someone is emotionally invested, they’re far more likely to feel attached to that thing.

And from attachment breeds loyalty. The donor wants to keep connected over a longer period of time so they can impact and progress. They may even become so passionate, they continue your legacy by sharing your story onwards within their own social circles.

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There is so much help available!

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Donors Want To Feel Like Heroes

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What would an ideal news headline regarding our organization read 20 years from now?
What is our dream for our community?
If we were successful, what would the world look like for us and our clients?
What would we like to see change?
What kind of community (or farm, space) do we want to create?

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Products, Programs, Services
Impact Plan
Financial Plan

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USE CFN AS A RESOURCE!

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EXPLORE LOCAL OPTIONS!

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A Little Detective Work Can Go A Long Way!

Consider attending other organizations’ events.

Connect with other organizations’ staff and board members.

Network with colleagues.

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In-Kind Support

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“Ask your community for support! We get so much from our community from cardboard and woodchips to glassware and rubber bands. This not only saves us $$ but also builds connections with folks.”

-Jen, Little Otter Flower Farm

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Helpful Tools

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Network for Good (CRM)
SquareSpace (website builder)
Instrumentl (Grant Database)
Canva (for Nonprofits)

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“Base Grant”: Common Questions

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What does your organization do?
What is your founding mission?
What are your achievements to date? What are your goals for the next five to twenty-five years?
What is your annual budget?
Can your organization sustain the program once funder dollars are no longer there?
How will you measure impact?
What is the engagement level of your board of directors in your organization?
Tell us why should we fund you

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Fundraising Support

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Cultivating Relationships

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Wisdom Shared from Care Farmers

Network! Find another Care Farm or another nonprofit organization and pick their brain. If you can write a grant for “start-up” use it to hire an advisor, do a strategic plan, create your base grant and set everything up! Don’t put the wagon before the horse!

- Jenny, Homesteads for Hope

This Care Farming Network is exactly what we have all needed! It's amazing to connect to so many organizations and offer help. We talk with lots of people who may have a different path, but get inspired just knowing that "it can happen!"

-Gayle, Full Pocket Farm

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