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Writing Great Grants - A Murdock Trust Podcast

Writing Great Grants is a podcast produced by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to help support nonprofits across the Pacific Northwest. On this podcast, Murdock Trust staff, partners and colleagues will share insights and information on the grantmaking process - both the process unique to the Murdock Trust grantmaking cycle and overall best practices for grant applications in general - to help those in the nonprofit space to flourish and thrive.The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust is a private, nonprofit foundation in Vancouver, WA serving the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Since 1975, the Murdock Trust has awarded more than $1 billion in capacity building grants to organizations serving the common good.

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Writing Great Grants - A Murdock Trust Podcast

Telling Your Story with Drew Dyck

September 30, 2020 • M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust • Season 2 • Episode 2

One of the most effective tools in fundraising and nonprofit growth is telling your story well. Donors and supporters appreciate the value represented by hard data, but they are drawn to stories that help demonstrate how your mission is coming to life to serve real, human needs.

But telling your story well is far from easy. In this episode, we are joined by Drew Dyck, an acquisitions editor at Moody Publishers and a contributing editor at CTPastors.com. Drew is the author of multiple books as well as several pieces at USA Today, CNN.com, The Huffington Post, Christianity Today, Books & Culture, and Relevant Magazine. When he is not writing or editing, Drew helps nonprofits develop and hone their story across a variety of media.

In this episode, Drew dives into real, tangible steps and strategies every organization can put into practice right away to help tell their story in impactful ways.