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Ask For Donation Letter

In the following lines, we summaries some strategies to write ask for donation letter and proposals for funds:

• Credibility of an organization seeking fund is very important. The Board Members of the organization should advertise the proposal and also should form an advisory board formally.
• Funding organization grant fund in regular cycles i.e. normally three times in a financial year. So, if the fund seeker has failed in one cycle; he can go for the next cycle .
• Before seeking fund, the fund seeker must know that the requested budget is within the funding limit of the funding organization. It can be ascertained by checking the annual reports or similar documents to note the average size of funding made by the funding organization.
• The proposal seeking fund should always be made keeping in view the capacity of the organization and its competence.
• The ask for donation letter proposal should clearly outline the intended proposition financial or otherwise. There should not be any ambiguity about the benefits to be rendered  to the target group and substantial details of the exact impact that it intends.

• The proposal should be checked by knowledgeable and experienced person having sufficient expertise in these matters and must be a person in confidence. The subject matter of the proposal should be kept confidential till the matter is disposed off duly.

• While preparing the ask for donation letter proposal, it is very necessary to study the funding organizations priorities and why they are providing funds!
• The basic objective of the ask for donation letter proposal should be to convince the funding organization about the viability of the project and it’s all round beneficial impact. The propositions and wordings should be such that it should fall in line with the priorities of the funding organization without ever mentioning it as such.
• One must make sure that proper application form is used and correctly filled  - up in all respect in accordance with the guidelines and instructions provided by the funding organization.
• A word of caution; no funding organization would appreciate total dependency on external fund for the success of a project. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly specify how self-sufficiency will be achieved by using a long term strategy that goes beyond the time frame of the proposal made.

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