Twice a year, Pacific Horticulture Society sends fundraising appeals via printed letters. I’ve worked on several of those letters, and have also trimmed and tweaked some of them to be used for fundraising emails, such as the one these excerpts were taken from. Have you thought about what the West Coast gardening community would be …
In contrast to the shorter and less formal pieces I’ve written for The Health Trust when they’ve solicited grants from family foundations, this proposal to the County of Santa Clara had to be very detailed in order to justify THT’s request for part of a $3 million fund. Executive Summary The Health Trust (THT) has …
I’m proud to have been working with Community Services Agency in Mountain View, California for the better part of a decade now. Mostly I write grant proposals for them, but in 2016, they asked me to write their annual report. Every weekday, CSA’s Food & Nutrition Center distributes food to our hungry neighbors—over one ton …
Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International is a nonprofit based in Santa Cruz, California, that teaches personal-safety classes. They’re one of the groups for whom I’ve written an annual report. We’ve seen the faces or read the stories of the jogger who fought off an attacker, the mid-level manager who filed a sexual harassment lawsuit, the distraught …
The SNBW website had a vital mission: to let abused women know that help was at hand. The existing website had an almost academic writing style; I replaced that with warm, reassuring copy. The questions on the home page helped women recognize dangerous forms of emotional abuse that they might otherwise brush off. This was …
