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Tool 11: Website and Social Media Hygiene Checklist

Supports Habit 6 of Ten Habits of Great Grant Writers.

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Do this quarterly, as a stranger with a checkbook.

  • Most recent website update is less than three months old, or the site is deliberately minimal and says where our active life happens
  • No stale content (old events pages, news frozen years ago): updated or deleted, not abandoned
  • Board members listed and current
  • Medical, scientific, or professional advisors listed, if applicable
  • Contact information works (send yourself the contact form)
  • Mission and programs described match what our applications say
  • Impact numbers present and current (from the Capacity One Pager)
  • Links to our active social media are prominent, and those accounts are actually active
  • Newsletter signup works; most recent issue is recent
  • Nothing on our accounts, or prominently attached to our leaders, that we would wince to see a program officer read
  • Searched ourselves on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search: filings current, information consistent