step four

Follow Up with Your Organization and Your Funder

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Making an invitation to a prospective funder is not the end of the grant-seeking process. Follow-up is essential, both within your organization and with your funder. Internally, you need to keep people informed about the grants process and involved in it. With the funder you need to respond to the result of your invitation, whether the result is in the form of a check in the mail, an invitation to submit a full proposal, a request for a visit to see your program in action, or a flat-out rejection. You keep the funder engaged, and cultivate a collegial relationship—one worthy of fair deals ...

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