WAYS NOT TO GET FUNDED
 1. Fail to read this list
2. Mis-spell funder's name
3. Look sloppy in your approach
4. Assume you're "owed" funding
5. Make unreasonable time demands
6. Be bland: become the lowest common denominator
7. Focus only on raising money, not resources
8. Try to scare the donor into giving
9. Try to make the potential donor feel guilty
10. Assume your funders don't know what you're really doing
11. Don't know your own facts
12. Try to con your funder
13. Don't do your homework about them
14. Forget to ask for the money
15. Beg
16. Be late for your appointment
17. Drone on beyond your allotted time
18. Ask after funding decisions are made
19. Ask someone who can't make the decision
20. Ask for the wrong thing
21. Chew gum
22. Send someone who has lost faith in your cause
© 1987.McCurley &
Vineyard. 101 Ways
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