3 survey respondents
Location: 1140 Connecticut Ave Nw Ste 700, Washington, 20036 DC
EIN: 68-0480736
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8 hours
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83%
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Grant Applicant - applied in 2020
I'm pretty sure their grant application is just a marketing email opt-in with extra steps.
Inadvertently exerts negative influence in the field, Doesn't "get" nonprofits and issues, Difficult to work with
Colorado
Grant currently pending
2020
Average
Bad
5 to 10 hours
Reviewer 6099 - Grant Applicant - applied in 2019
I'm pretty sure these grants are a marketing strategy for the company.
Network for Good gets the Razzie Award for most obtuse question ever: how will you change the world with $1,000? Seriously?
Suggested answers:
Do you mean the world today or back in 1600, when $1,000 was actually a significant amount of money?
Purchase a copy of Wayne's World and hire a teenager to edit the ending.
Buy $1,000 in lottery tickets and hope for a big payout so we can actually do something.
Use the $1,000 to offset a week's worth of grant writing in hopes we will actually get a grant that offers some resources?
I could change the world for one dog with $1,000, but that's only $143 in dog money.
I could take out $1,000 in ads warning people not to apply to this grant, which would reduce the number of people applying and make it more likely I would get an amount of money I could actually make an impact with.
Use the money to go to Hawaii. It would change MY world. Wait, that's not even enough to do that. Ummm....go to Muncie and buy a six pack?
Combine the $1,000 with a $100 million grant from the Gates Foundation.
And here is the answer I am pretty sure they want to hear:
Purchase your products and use them to change the world!!!
Oklahoma
Grant currently pending
2019
Average
Bad
I'm not convinced they have philanthropic goals. Pretty sure this is just marketing.
Get real.
Creative marketing.
5
Grant Applicant - applied in 2019
This funder also sells software to nonprofits. If you apply, you will receive a lot of solicitations via email and mail.
Inadvertently exerts negative influence in the field, Doesn't "get" nonprofits and issues, Difficult to work with
Minnesota
Applied and not funded
2019
Bad
They don't designate a contact person for applicants. They don't notify you if your application has been declined. There's no opportunity to ask for feedback.
Average
Their stated goal is to help nonprofits with fundraising and capacity-building. By bombarding me with solicitations, they didn't help me achieve that. They say applicants can always unsubscribe, but I feared that doing so would damage my nonprofit's chances in being awarded a grant.
Be transparent in how your grantmaking intersects with your sales prospecting. Be sure you've thought through the ethics of that intersection, and share your ethical perspective with prospective applicants.
They have a short, online application.
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