Seeking Funding or Other Support? A Crisp Case Statement Can Help

Fine Gauge Strategy drafts case statements for advocacy organizations, campaigns, and coalitions. Here’s a few groups whose challenges we’ve helped address in recent years:

  • An organization that leads in advocacy, training, and technical support, but struggles to communicate how its work stands out from groups with similar missions
  • A nationwide campaign whose diverse organizational members each wish their expertise to be highlighted in funder-briefing documents
  • A talented emerging coalition lacking “paper” to illustrate the value of their innovative service-provision approach

We’ve learned a great deal from these clients about creating a case statement that helps funders and supporters connect the prospective grantee’s mission and goals with theirs.

This month, we’ve put many of these lessons in a case statement tool that can be downloaded from our Resources page.

As the year comes to an end, a heartfelt “thank you” from Fine Gauge Strategy. Your support has enabled us to serve many inspiring advocates and organizers in 2024.

And stay tuned for these topics in our 2025 Cog & Gear posts:

  • Defensive advocacy: How to think about it; how to measure it
  • Amicus litigation as an advocacy and organizing tool
  • How consultants view your RFPs (the RFP “Decision Matrix”)
  • Measuring how Operations supports mission

Best wishes for a restful holiday season and for much success in 2025.

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