How to Get a Grant for Communications Capacity
Score your organization’s communications capacity and leave with a draft funding request built around your specific situation.
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For Nonprofit Executive Directors, Development Directors, and Communications Staff
Presented by Lori Bower, President of BowerComm
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How to Get a Grant for Communications Capacity
Score your organization's communications capacity and leave with a draft funding request built around your specific situation.
Free Live Webinar
Tuesday, July 21, 12:00PM CST
Can’t make it live? Register, and we’ll send the recording after the webinar.
For Nonprofit Executive Directors, Development Directors, and Communications Staff
REGISTER NOW
Presented by Lori Bower, President of BowerComm
Overview
Most organizations are known by the people who already believe in them. Building visibility beyond that circle takes communications infrastructure. For most organizations, that’s never been in the budget (and likely not on their radar).
Funders are paying attention to this now. They’ve tried funding one-off solutions and seen what sticks and what doesn’t. What they’re looking to fund is a communications system an organization can actually run and sustain, not a vague ask that risks being a dud.
Most requests either sound like general marketing spend, which raises questions about readiness, or they ask for a specific tactic without explaining why that tactic fits the actual problem. This webinar is about making an ask that works.
You’ll score your own communications capacity and leave with a draft funding request — built around what your organization actually needs.
In This Webinar, We'll Cover
1. Why funders are ready to invest in communications capacity right now
What’s changed, what they’ve already tried, and what they’re now looking for, so you know how to position the ask.
2. Why most communications requests don’t get funded — and what does
Most asks raise one of two doubts. We’ll look at what resolves them: a diagnosis, not just a description, and a request for something that builds rather than just produces.
3. How to score your own communications capacity
Four patterns where nonprofit communications most commonly breaks down, in language you’ll recognize from your own organization. Knowing which one is doing the most damage tells you what to ask for.
4. How to build your funding request
You’ll draft your request during the session, using your scorecard results. Named gap, connection to mission, realistic ownership, definition of success. You leave with something in hand.
You Should Attend If...
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You’ve tried to get communications help funded and couldn’t make the case
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You know something is off in your communications but can’t name it precisely enough to build an ask around it
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Your board asks why more people don’t know about your work, and you don’t have a good answer
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You’re tired of being well-known to the people who already support you and invisible to everyone else
Who This Webinar Is For
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Nonprofit executive directors
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Development directors and fundraising staff
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Communications and marketing staff
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Board members involved in development or community relations
What You'll Leave With
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A scored assessment of your organization’s communications capacity
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A tool to build a funding request around a specific capacity gap
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Language to explain to your board and funders what’s breaking down and what fixing it requires
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A clear match between your situation and the type of support that fits
About the Presenter
Lori Bower
Founder & President, BowerComm
Lori Bower has spent more than 25 years helping nonprofits, community foundations, and regional funders build communications systems that hold up over time and across leadership changes.
Her work focuses on the infrastructure behind visibility; the strategy, workflow, and ownership structures that let organizations communicate consistently without starting from scratch every year.