1. Funding Your Nonprofit

Learn how to communicate the message of your organization strategically and effectively. This workshop will teach you the tools of marketing communications via social media. Learn tips and techniques for making your organization social media savvy. Please bring a laptop for this workshop.

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* 1. Please tell us who you are and the organization you represent.

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* 2. Does your organization have a 501(c)3 nonprofit status?

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* 3. Brief overview of the work of the organization

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* 4. Organization's mission

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* 5. Operating methods (A brief explanation of how the organization works.)

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* 6. Annual operating budget

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* 7. Funding (A description of where the organizational funding comes from, with percentage breakdowns where available.)

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* 8. Governance (A breakdown of how the organization is run and how it forms policy.)

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* 9. Geographical reach (The counties in which the organization is active, the presence of regional offices, the number of staff employed and the headquarters' location.)

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* 10. How does your organization (through mission or project) address poverty in South Carolina?

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* 11. Does your organization have a marketing communications plan?

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* 12. Is there a designated person responsible for marketing communications?

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* 13. Do you have a Web site?

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* 14. Do you have annual events?

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* 15. If yes, does organization use social media to promote the events? How?

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* 16. What are your social media goals?

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* 17. Do you personally use social media? If yes, how?

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* 18. Have you previously taken a grant writing course before?

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* 19. Have you ever written a grant for your organization? If so how do you rate your grant writing experience: beginner, intermediate or experienced?

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* 20. How do you classify your organization's mission?

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* 21. How does your organization determine whether or not to write a grant? Include whether or not the grant process is an integrated part of your organization. Please explain.

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* 22. Does your organization educate staff, program directors and board members on the ethics and philosophy of receiving a grant?

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* 23. Why did you choose to become a grant writer? If you're not a grant writer, enter N/A in the box below.

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* 24. Do you know where to find grants?

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* 25. Does your organization raise most of its funding through grant dollars?

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* 26. Are you aware that there are other ways to gain resource support other than grants and do you coordinate those support resources with the grant proposal?

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* 27. If there is one technique, idea, skill that you would like to take back to your organization and use immediately, what would it be? Be specific, being a better grant writer does not apply.

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* 28. How did you hear about this workshop?

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* 29. Which workshop location are you planning to attend?

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