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		<title>Professional is based on personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional relations are always build upon good personal relations. You can never expect that proficiency in what you intend to build, your outstanding expertise or negotiations skills will make your point in fundraising, if you don&#8217;t build good trustworthy personal relations.
Though grant writers do not interact directly with their funders, there are some do and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afundraiser.wordpress.com&blog=3497194&post=13&subd=afundraiser&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hand out free money?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the idea that foundations, companies, and the government would hand out free money to groups that intend to develop some practical projects sounds for any reasonbale person in the world?
Are we out of the mind to think something on earth is completely &#8220;free of any charge&#8221;?
So called grants, these money are actually awarded based [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afundraiser.wordpress.com&blog=3497194&post=12&subd=afundraiser&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being fundraiser: good to know</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOOD TO KNOW
1.  Grant writers need to plan ahead &#8211; sometimes far ahead;
2. Grant writers should be comfortable handling all kinds of research - from knowing what funding opportunities are coming along to knowing where to find the substantiation and data that will support your organization&#8217;s case for funding;
3.  Grant writers must be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afundraiser.wordpress.com&blog=3497194&post=10&subd=afundraiser&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being fundraiser: myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MYTHS
Some grant writers are successful more often than not, some grant writers are most likely to be rejected.
There isn&#8217;t any such person as a &#8220;perfect&#8221; grant writer. Good grantsmanship isn&#8217;t about a person &#8211; it&#8217;s about doing your homework when it comes to seeking funding, following guidelines, clarity of communication and otherwise making the case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afundraiser.wordpress.com&blog=3497194&post=9&subd=afundraiser&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iSupport</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[let&#8217;s define: iSupport
= a personalized way to support, trust and reccomend social causes and civic movements that YOU entrust they share the same values that guides YOUR life
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		<title>Formalize informal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technically, informal relations are of significant contribution to our emotional life. Good aspect of this is that we can have meaningful relations with our intimate or personal friends and close acquaintances, but it also effect negative on emotional crashes when we become disappointed by own unfulfilled expectations.
Formalizing informal relation may reduce or avoid emotional damage. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afundraiser.wordpress.com&blog=3497194&post=6&subd=afundraiser&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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