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Writing a successful foundation application: Three principles instead of long checklists
How do you write a successful application to funding foundations? Is there "the ultimate good request" that you can learn and use anywhere? The question itself already reveals it: there is no such thing. And yet we are constantly looking for a checklist that offers exactly that. But most of them are useless. Especially those that are provided free of charge as a recipe to promote the sale of "personally" compiled foundation lists (also from online platforms), according to the motto: Here the list, there the instructions - there the money. In reality, there is much more at stake. Here are the three most important principles.