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9 things that put donors off from giving you money (22 Jun 13)

Here is the one thing you should never do. Don’t try to make the reader feel guilty. It kills interest immediately. Nobody likes feeling bad


Having got that out of the way, make sure that does your application and organisation don’t have any of these:

- A complicated message

- A seemingly unsolvable problem

- A badly thought out proposal which doesn’t answer the questions

- Giving money when the project should be publicly funded

- Giving to an organisation which appears to be a…

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