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Tag: <span>Non-Profits</span>

Milpitas Chamber of Commerce Invitation Form

Not yet a Milpitas Chamber of Commerce member? Haven’t been a member for 3 years or longer?

Let me invite you to join the Milpitas Chamber of Commerce and share the benefits the GoMilpitas.com already enjoys.

Have you heard that Gaye Morando is back, and selling memberships? She will get back to you once you have sent in this form.

You will get tools to grow your business (See list in image below.), and I get credited $20 toward my membership dues, which would really help, since this site doesn’t make very much money for “extras” like membership dues.

Print out this image, and fill out the top of the form below where it asks for your business name (Referred business), the contact name of the person doing the joining, their phone number and email address.

Chamber Referral Form
Chamber Referral Form from Ann Zeise, GoMilpitas.com

Mail to:

Milpitas Chamber of Commerce
828 N. Hillview Dr.
Milpitas CA 95035

or fax to 408-262-2823

or scan and send file to info@milpitaschamber.com

If you decide to call or drop by, be sure to tell them you were referred by GoMilpitas.com.

Grant Writing-Seven Deadly Sins of Grant Writing

Too often grant writers fall into these traps when applying for community grants. My thanks to the The Peninsula Community Foundation for allowing me to reproduce this information from one of their seminars.

Grant Writing

  1. Using “grant-speak.”

Avoid acronyms
Avoid trite phrases “outcomes,” “cultural diversity.”
Avoid big words
Avoid complex sentences

  1. Not doing your homework before applying to a foundation.

Make sure you fit the type of grant. 50% of applicants often are not eligible.
Don’t ask for too much money.
Include correct attachments

  1. Using the “Grants-R-Us” approach to seeking grants.

Don’t use canned, “one size fits all” grants
Pick your 5 best donors per year
Be consistent: donors talk to each other.

  1. Writing in generalities and emotional terms rather than being specific and factual.

General: We want to make an impact on young people.
Specific: We seek to improve the ability of 700 children attending ABC school to work collaboratively through a series of interactive theatre workshops.

  1. Providing qualitative rather than quantitative goals and/or evaluation methods, or no goals or evaluations methods at all.

Think it through
Provide hard numbers that can be measured.

  1. Lack of planning for the project, for the organization and/or the future of either or both.

Budget should accurately reflect the project.
Budget should accurately reflect the goals of the organization.

  1. Inflating the value, uniqueness and/or affect of the project or your organization.

Bad Example: We will enrich the cultural life of all the people in the Bay Area.
Another Bad Example: We are the only organization [fill in the blank] … providing this service … doing this kind of work … serving this community … etc.
Be realistic!

Related page: Grant Writing Help
A list of organizations that provide technical assistance, consulting, classes and research materials in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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