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		<title>Does Your Organization&#8217;s Thank You Letter Suck?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I made a donation to a local arts organization.
I&#8217;m pleased to say that, yes, contrary to the statistics, I did receive a thank you letter.
Granted it arrived approximately four weeks after the fact.
But I did receive one.
Sadly it was the standard thank you letter.
You know.
The kind that begins:  &#8220;Dear Ms. Grow (makes me feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/526/does-your-organizations-thank-you-letter-suck/</link>
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		<title>Nonprofit Blog Carnival: First Time High</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somehow I missed submission to this month’s About.com Nonprofit Blog Carnival, sponsored by Katya Andresen, but the topic of Nonprofit Career Highs and Lows was too good to miss.
What’s the Nonprofit Blog Carnival?  Glad you asked.  I wasn’t quite sure myself what it was all about, despite the fact that I agreed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/512/nonprofit-blog-carnival-first-time-high/</link>
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		<title>Successful Fundraising &#8211; Not for the Thin-Skinned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t please everyone so you gotta please yourself. 
Ricky Nelson
I was reminded of this truism recently when the board president of an organization I am working with called to vent about their low Charity Navigator ranking.
Apparently she had been contacted by a potential donor who said that he had planned on making a contribution, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/490/successful-fundraising-not-for-the-thin-skinned/</link>
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		<title>Learn How Writing for One Can Invigorate Your Nonprofit Marketing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the midst of reading Ken Burnett&#8217;s marvelous book, &#8220;Relationship Fundraising:  A Donor-Based Approach to the Business of Raising Money.&#8221; 
One of my favorite things about Relationship Fundraising is that Ken prefaces every chapter with a &#8220;Donor Profile,&#8221; an in-depth story about one particular individual and how and why they give.  Each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media for Nonprofit &#8211; Re-thinking the Rules of Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog post came out of an impromptu phone conversation with marketing consultant, Rob Olic. The content was too good not to share. If you like it, let me know and I&#8217;ll get him to contribute again!

Pam: Did you read my latest blog entry on engagement?
Rob: Yes.
Pam: What did you think?
Rob: ((silence))
Pam: You didn’t like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/482/social-media-for-nonprofit-re-thinking-the-rules-of-engagement/</link>
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		<title>Let’s Get Engaged, Honey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s just say it: engagement is a buzzword.
I spent a few years in the educational publishing business, and it was a word I saw trotted out again and again, to describe every latest and every greatest. Engaging resources. Engage your students with this product. It’s all about engagement.  After a while, a word loses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/477/let%e2%80%99s-get-engaged-honey/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Give Me Gobbledegook &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With thanks to Hildy Gotlieb, I&#8217;d like to share this wonderful video.  A good reminder to everyone who writes in the nonprofit arena.
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		<title>8 Biggest Grant Proposal Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you making these mistakes in your grant proposals?  Learn some of the most obvious (and not so obvious) mistakes that could spell doom for your grant proposal!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/461/8-biggest-grant-proposal-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>My Theme for 2010 … Three Words?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year, I evaluate the year just passed.  Did I meet my career goals?  My health and fitness goals?  Did I stick to my resolutions of the previous year?
While, yes, I stuck to my fitness plan (for me that&#8217;s a no brainer.  Exercise has been an integral part of my life for 20something years),  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/448/my-theme-for-2010-%e2%80%a6-three-words/</link>
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		<title>KISS &#8211; Keep it Simple Sweetheart &#8230; with Swipe Files!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Imitation is the highest form of flattery.&#8221; -Coco Chanel
Regular readers of my newsletter, The Grow Report, know that I am a huge fan of the online fundraising resource SOFII.
SOFII showcases exhibits from the best fundraisers in the businesses – people like Mal Warwick, Ken Burnett, Tom Ahern and Lisa Sargent.
In fact, SOFII is the nonprofit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/425/kiss-keep-it-simple-sweetheart-with-swipe-files/</link>
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		<title>Sometimes it Really IS Who You Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year was 1982 and I was working as an administrative aide to the House Chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee of Mental Health.
It was a fascinating time to be working in government, particularly in the field of mental health.  I worked for a brilliant, compassionate individual by the name of Joseph Young, Sr.  Joe had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/420/sometimes-it-really-is-who-you-know/</link>
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		<title>Keep Christmas in Your Heart All Year Long</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.”
Charles Dickens
Many years ago I was working for the Philadelphia Bar Association at their offices on South Market (near the famous Reading Terminal Market &#8230; about the only positive about working for the Philadelphia Bar Association  .
My husband and I lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/417/keep-christmas-in-your-heart-all-year-long/</link>
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		<title>15 Nonprofit Social Media Stocking Stuffers and Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is from guest author Aerin Guy.
If you’re like me, you’ve spent the better part of 2009 exploring the explosion of emerging social media tools.  This year has brought a lot of “wow”, a little “whoa!”, and a whole lot of “what next”? The jury is out on Google Wave, as many of us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/408/15-nonprofit-social-media-stocking-stuffers-and-resolutions/</link>
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		<title>11 Books for the Fundraiser on Your Gift List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to nonprofit development, you&#8217;ll find that many authors have a tendency to make simple things enormously complex.  Quite the contrary, strong development involves learning basic marketing techniques, the value of truly understanding your donor, and, lastly, how to develop simple, consistent systems that tie it all together.
Got a fundraiser on your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/405/11-books-for-the-fundraiser-on-your-gift-list/</link>
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		<title>Is Every Donor Your Favorite?  They Should THINK That They Are!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I saw this wonderful quick video from Carrie Wilkerson (also known as the Barefoot Executive) about how to make every client think they&#8217;re your favorite.
I think there are some great donor retention lessons to be learned here:












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		<title>Does Your Nonprofit Major in Minor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.
Anthony Robbins
I&#8217;ve been a member of the CharityChannel listserv community now for probably nine years.  It&#8217;s been an amazing resource for me throughout my career &#8211; and also a barometer for the mindset challenges that tend to drag nonprofit organizations down.
Recently I read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Simple Ways to Increase Your Online Giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago I decided to feature a local nonprofit organization I worked with years ago for Twitter&#8217;s #CharityTuesday, thinking that I might be able to drive a few extra dollars their way.
So I paid a visit to their website to make a donation and copy the url.
I searched and searched for a way to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/387/2-simple-ways-to-increase-your-online-giving/</link>
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		<title>5 Down &amp; Dirty Tips to Ramp up Your End-of-Year Appeal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s already November, and, if you’re working for an understaffed agency with too much to do and not enough time or resources, think twice before you regurgitate last year’s annual appeal letter and call it a day.
First off, ask yourself a few questions:
Will you be mailing out your letters in-house or using a mail house? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/357/5-down-dirty-tips-to-ramp-up-your-end-of-year-appeal/</link>
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		<title>6 Benefits of Using Twitter for Nonprofit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Why should we?”
“Twitter is just a bunch of noise about people eating lunch.”
“Our customers aren’t online.”
“We already have a website.”
Sound familiar?  There are plenty of reasons to avoid social media, it seems.  It is true that there are a zillion time-wasting testimonials out there, and a plethora of pundits sharing little, if any, value to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/349/6-benefits-of-using-twitter-for-nonprofit/</link>
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		<title>Fundraising Fun?  You Betcha!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nonprofit blogger and Twitterer, Marc Pitman, recently twitted that &#8220;many see fundraising as an evil, a necessary evil but evil nonetheless.&#8221;
I couldn&#8217;t agree more and, frankly, I just don&#8217;t get it!
Fundraising is challenging, it&#8217;s people-centered, it&#8217;s constantly learning and evolving, it&#8217;s creative &#8211; fundraising is FUN!
So why is it that so many nonprofit organizations, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com/342/fundraising-fun-you-betcha/</link>
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