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Crappy Funding Practices
Non-profit Organizations
Los Angeles, CA 21,017 followers
We call out crappy funding practices in a bid to make philanthropy more equitable. Join us! #crappyfundingpractices
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We call out crappy funding practices in a bid to make philanthropy more equitable. Submit your crappy funding practice and join us! #crappyfundingpractices
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 1 employee
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- Los Angeles, CA
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- Nonprofit
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- 2024
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Well, here’s one we haven’t seen before. In order to apply for a grant from CHIK FIL A (https://lnkd.in/gGy-Syt) you have to share photos, and of course the accompanying photo releases. But wait, not the photo releases that you already have from your participants…. You have to use Chik-fil-A’s specific form. So your choices are 1. Take new photos and collect photo releases specific to this grant, or 2. Track down everybody appearing in older photos and get them to sign new photo releases specific to this grant. Just to apply. What a pain in the chicken sandwich! Come on, CHIK FIL A, is this really necessary? We’ve already talked about the problems with requiring video footage of service recipients. Photos are not much better. And really, if you must have photos, surely you can find a way to accept what applicants already have. Tell us all about your own Crappy Funder right here! 📢 https://lnkd.in/gStX7dBd Or tell us about your Courageous Funder here! ⭐ http://bit.ly/3OOobRf
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Foundations - take note of what this amazing foundation is doing for their grant application! I love the thoughtfulness they show to nonprofits and the reasoning behind the concept of the application submission process. And Gen Ops funding to boot!! #unicorngrant #makethisthestandard
Swoon! As much of the country suffers through a heat wave, we are woozy with excitement about the ROBERT STERLING CLARK FOUNDATION, INC. 🏆 Do they have character limits? Do they have hidden questions? Do they require too much work for too small a grant? Do they even have an application? They do not. 😮 The fine folks at the Foundation ask only that you submit *any* application you’ve already written, along with existing financial documents. In their words: “Our approach reflects our desire for your organization to keep the focus on your work…. We consider it our responsibility to learn more about your organization and the possible alignment of our interests. This approach is rooted in a philosophy of trust-based philanthropy.” 🥰 🎤 Funders, take note. Over here at CFP, we see this as a great example of valuing your grantees’ time, resources, and sanity! 👍👍 If you’d like to submit your own shout-out for an Awesome Funding Practice, we love to share them!
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This is amazing! More of this please.
Swoon! As much of the country suffers through a heat wave, we are woozy with excitement about the ROBERT STERLING CLARK FOUNDATION, INC. 🏆 Do they have character limits? Do they have hidden questions? Do they require too much work for too small a grant? Do they even have an application? They do not. 😮 The fine folks at the Foundation ask only that you submit *any* application you’ve already written, along with existing financial documents. In their words: “Our approach reflects our desire for your organization to keep the focus on your work…. We consider it our responsibility to learn more about your organization and the possible alignment of our interests. This approach is rooted in a philosophy of trust-based philanthropy.” 🥰 🎤 Funders, take note. Over here at CFP, we see this as a great example of valuing your grantees’ time, resources, and sanity! 👍👍 If you’d like to submit your own shout-out for an Awesome Funding Practice, we love to share them!
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Imagine a world where funders trust that stand-up nonprofit organizations already doing great work thru proven funding mechanisms can get funded for a grant already written to another funder, allowing nonprofits to do what they are supposed to do with limited resources. Not hosting events, re-writing the same grant 67 different ways, and recreating the wheel at every whim. What a world we would have if these efforts could catch on in the funding world to allow both parties to say, “look what we accomplished effectively AND efficiently, thus saving resources and making the collective dollar have more ‘bang’ for the buck”.
Swoon! As much of the country suffers through a heat wave, we are woozy with excitement about the ROBERT STERLING CLARK FOUNDATION, INC. 🏆 Do they have character limits? Do they have hidden questions? Do they require too much work for too small a grant? Do they even have an application? They do not. 😮 The fine folks at the Foundation ask only that you submit *any* application you’ve already written, along with existing financial documents. In their words: “Our approach reflects our desire for your organization to keep the focus on your work…. We consider it our responsibility to learn more about your organization and the possible alignment of our interests. This approach is rooted in a philosophy of trust-based philanthropy.” 🥰 🎤 Funders, take note. Over here at CFP, we see this as a great example of valuing your grantees’ time, resources, and sanity! 👍👍 If you’d like to submit your own shout-out for an Awesome Funding Practice, we love to share them!
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Thank you to everyone who got Crappy Funding Practices to 20,000 followers! We're honored and proud of your resilience, humor in the face of adversity, and relentless efforts to do well for your organizations! Thank you to all the funders paying attention, and to every one of our gnomes behind the scenes!
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★ Fundraising Architect ★ Copywriting Maestro ★ Donor Myth Buster – working with world-changing non-profits
I find it amazing that so many philanthropic funders want non-profits to have low overhead yet have such arduous processes to apply for what is really not very much funding as outlined on Crappy Funding Practices. I find it even more unbelievable that these same funders don't realise that their ridiculous requirements just add to the cost of - yep, you guessed it - OVERHEAD!!! Reframe Overhead, I don't suppose this is something we can talk about at some stage?
Today’s #CrappyFundingPractices call out goes to Whole Kids and their funding for school gardens. To apply for a garden grant, all you have to do is submit your contact information, school or organizational details and demographics, the name, duties and experience of your garden coordinator, names of your Garden Committee, a drawing of your garden, a list of garden components, photos of your garden space, plans for using the food grown, volunteer recruitment plan, community engagement plan, marketing plan, student engagement plan, cultural relevance plan, nutrition lesson plan, curriculum integration plan, financial sustainability plan, community partnerships (required, and your PTA does not qualify), letter of support (from yourself if you’re the ED), and your connections to Whole Foods Market. By the way, if you get the $3,000 it's subject to audit. Whole Kids this is way too much for a grant of $3,000. By all means offer technical assistance to grantees who need it, but this is not the way. Forcing applicants to explain their entire operations to you doesn’t improve their operations, it only shuts out organizations that don’t have that kind of time. It shuts out the organizations and the kids they serve. Is this really the best you can do? Got your own Crappy Funders? Tell us about it right here! 📢 https://lnkd.in/gStX7dBd Or tell us about your Courageous Funder here! ⭐ http://bit.ly/3OOobRf
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Swoon! As much of the country suffers through a heat wave, we are woozy with excitement about the ROBERT STERLING CLARK FOUNDATION, INC. 🏆 Do they have character limits? Do they have hidden questions? Do they require too much work for too small a grant? Do they even have an application? They do not. 😮 The fine folks at the Foundation ask only that you submit *any* application you’ve already written, along with existing financial documents. In their words: “Our approach reflects our desire for your organization to keep the focus on your work…. We consider it our responsibility to learn more about your organization and the possible alignment of our interests. This approach is rooted in a philosophy of trust-based philanthropy.” 🥰 🎤 Funders, take note. Over here at CFP, we see this as a great example of valuing your grantees’ time, resources, and sanity! 👍👍 If you’d like to submit your own shout-out for an Awesome Funding Practice, we love to share them!
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100% this! There are some grantors out there who request sooooooo much documentation from nonprofits, that the ENTIRE purpose of serving the most vulnerable in our communities is totally diminished due to ALL the paperwork needed just to put an application together. The actual application for funding then becomes a barrier to caring for people in our communities. Thank you to Crappy Funding Practices for bringing this to light!
Today’s #CrappyFundingPractices call out goes to Whole Kids and their funding for school gardens. To apply for a garden grant, all you have to do is submit your contact information, school or organizational details and demographics, the name, duties and experience of your garden coordinator, names of your Garden Committee, a drawing of your garden, a list of garden components, photos of your garden space, plans for using the food grown, volunteer recruitment plan, community engagement plan, marketing plan, student engagement plan, cultural relevance plan, nutrition lesson plan, curriculum integration plan, financial sustainability plan, community partnerships (required, and your PTA does not qualify), letter of support (from yourself if you’re the ED), and your connections to Whole Foods Market. By the way, if you get the $3,000 it's subject to audit. Whole Kids this is way too much for a grant of $3,000. By all means offer technical assistance to grantees who need it, but this is not the way. Forcing applicants to explain their entire operations to you doesn’t improve their operations, it only shuts out organizations that don’t have that kind of time. It shuts out the organizations and the kids they serve. Is this really the best you can do? Got your own Crappy Funders? Tell us about it right here! 📢 https://lnkd.in/gStX7dBd Or tell us about your Courageous Funder here! ⭐ http://bit.ly/3OOobRf
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