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Grammar rules you can’t break in fundraising copy and some you can

Grammar rules? For fundraising copy? Yes. Hold on a minute. Shouldn’t fundraising copy be all informal and conversational? And doesn’t “conversational” mean that we routinely break so-called grammar rules and begin sentences with “and” or “but,” use contractions, end sentences … Continue reading

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Why is the copy for direct response fundraising so weird?

It’s not weird, really. But it is way different from academic, business, or journalistic writing, and so it can seem weird to the (uninitiated) people at nonprofits who review copy. As my article in NonprofitPRO points out: Good copy is … Continue reading

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