How to Win Grant Funding To Build A Website
There are several ways to fund building a website using grant funds, even if the grant your applying for does not advertise they fund websites. Website grants available depend on location, type of business or group it is for, and how the website is meant to be used.
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Develop a fact supported need statement. Besides just telling the funding organization that the website will help your mission as well as theirs, give them data from a reliable source to support the need for the project.
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Create a logical budget that shows the expenses of building the website for the project. Avoid just jotting down what the website will cost, give the grant reviewers detailed budget information.
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Avoid fluffing a grant budget to get extras. To win a website grant you must be able to account for all budget expenses in the need statement.
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Show sustainability. A long term plan to pay for upkeep and ongoing expenses of a website is crucial. Grant funding sources that give grants to build websites receive way more grant proposals then they could ever fund. They must not only choose the grant applicants that show the largest need and give the compelling story, but they must weed out applicants that can not with stand the long term. Most grants will not pay for ongoing costs past the first year of the program.
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Tips & Warnings
Grant funding sources that fund IT grants, business development grants, and/or teen outreach programs are great sources to find grants to build a website.
To win a website grant the grant proposal show a strong need for the projects, as well as a good plan to keep the project going after grant funds run out.
Website grants usually do not include upkeep costs.
