{"id":321,"date":"2019-04-13T20:48:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2019-04-13T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T19:48:16","slug":"20-20-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"20 20 Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/walking-on-the-beach-871297516032sFP-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Talking to lots of different charities, I am often asked what one thing will help to raise the money they really need.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, if there was one simple answer to that question, I would have written the book and retired on the proceeds by now!\u00a0 Of course, the reality is\u00a0complex, but one important factor is undoubtedly vision.<\/p>\n<p>There are thousands of excellent charities doing wonderful work, but my experience\u00a0\u00a0is that many struggle to articulate the vision that leads them to do what they do; if you like the &#8216;why&#8217; that underpins the &#8216;what&#8217;\u00a0of their charitable activity.<\/p>\n<p>Funders receive many more applications that they can possibly fund and are often faced with tough choices about which of the excellent projects they are presented with will receive their grant.\u00a0 Each funder will have different criteria they use to make their decision, but a sense of clear vision is often one of them.\u00a0 Understanding what underpins and motivates the applicant charity, what gives it life and excitement can be a powerful incentive for support<\/p>\n<p>If your charity struggles to express the &#8216;why&#8217; of what you do, however good you are at the &#8216;what&#8217;, maybe I can help.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?page_id=8\">Contact me<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to lots of different charities, I am often asked what one thing will help to raise the money they really need. Sadly, if there was one simple answer to that question, I would have written the book and retired on the proceeds by now!\u00a0 Of course, the reality is\u00a0complex,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,7,3,8,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charities","category-churches","category-communication","category-fundraising","category-leadership","category-organisational-development","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}