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Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition
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Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition

by Beverly A. Browning
March 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
368 pages
9h 16m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 22

Requesting Matching Funds and Other Goodies from Corporate Grantmakers

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Soliciting for the right types of contributions

Bullet Establishing funder communications

Bullet Writing a winning corporate request letter

Bullet Following up with the letter’s recipient

Many Fortune 500 corporations and smaller corporations reduce the taxes they pay on their bottom-line profits by creating community reinvestment programs that give away money, goods, and services to nonprofits and units of government located in or near corporate headquarters and operating locations. When a company’s end-of-financial-year profit is $5 million, it can give away 5 percent of the profits in the form of deductible contributions (according to Uncle Sam). In many regions across the country, this annual transition of taxable to non-taxable dollars drives big bucks into small and large communities. Grassroots nonprofits, mid- to large-size nonprofits, and units of municipal government can request matching funds and a myriad of program-related items.

How can your organization get a piece of a corporation’s philanthropy ...

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