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Maybe you're all ready to get to work, but you don't know what the process is. The grant seeking process is: 1. Commit to the process. Raising grants successfully requires a commitment to the process. Learn what the grant seeking process is, how to do it so that you'll be successful, learn about writing a grant proposal and its components (e.g. program budget), and invest in the process. This is a process and you've done everything that you can do. MORE
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So I started putting together a marketing process Google doc for them. Make an organizational memory for the processes that you do. Fundraising Rosetta Stone. Are you onto a new job? What happened to your old job? MORE
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