Good afternoon <<First Name>>,

I hope you’re well. 

I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce both myself and my colleague Geraldine Tovey (geraldine@threesixtygiving.org). We make up the (fairly) new comms team at 360Giving and will be the best points of contact for any comms related questions! 

We’ve emailed who we think are the right people to get in touch with regarding comms, if this is not the case please can you forward this email to the correct colleague or put us in touch with the team member it would be best for us to follow up with.

As a 360Giving publisher, we wanted to let you know that we’ve created publisher badges which you can add to <<Organisation>>'s website. These badges will inform anyone who visits your website that you publish open grants data and are part of the open grants movement. 

You can find the publisher badges here, and you can choose whichever badge works the best for your website. We recommend that you put your badge in the header or footer section of your homepage or on a dedicated open data page if you choose to have one. We’d also be delighted if you’d like to add a badge to your email signature. 

If you’re currently using the main 360Giving logo on your website we ask that you change this to a publisher badge instead. 

As well as using our publisher badges, we’d also like to encourage you to link to both GrantNav and 360Insights on your website. This could either be a link to your grants data on your specific GrantNav and 360Insights pages or a general link to the tool - if you need any help finding your specific links, do let us know. By linking to our tools, you are showing how your open grants data can be used practically and visually to inform decision making.

If you need any further information about the publishing process, do take a look through our Complete Guide to Publishing. 

And if you haven’t already done so, we encourage funders to sign up for our newsletter and follow us on Twitter for all of our latest news. In the meantime, do let us know if you have any further questions that we can help you with.

Many thanks,

Vicky and Geraldine