Public Relations

Communications templates for your promotion

Sharing the news about your grant and what it will help you accomplish in your community, helps to establish your reputation and build credibility. It shows the community that you’re taking proactive action to solve problems and improve the work you do every day. To make it easier for you to share this great news, we provided a few templates below to help get you started!

Blog/Newsroom Template

Visual:

Show a picture of the equipment your grant helped you purchase or consider an image that represents the impact you can achieve thanks to the grant funding. Visual examples can be found here: https://fundingnav.org/impact/

Copy:

In a blog/newsroom article, you can tell a story about what it means to your agency to win this grant and the impact this will have on the community you serve.

Headline: consider a headline that focuses on the problem this grant helps you solve
Body: the best articles tell a story about the positive impact that the grant will help you have on the community. You can provide background on why the funding was needed and how you got it. Consider including a quote from someone in your agency, a partner, or member from the community.

EXAMPLE: St. Joe’s Police Department Receives $XXX in Grant Funding to Combat Impaired Drivers

In 2024, nearly XXX people were killed in DUI crashes in our state, with XX in our county. This grant funding goes to more patrols, improved public awareness, and training for officers to be able to stop impaired drivers. “The funding will save lives in our town,” said John Tribune. “We’re grateful to this funding to help us protect lives and prevent tragedies from happening.”

The funding will go towards drug identification programs to help officers identify and understand different types of drug impairment and will also go to community awareness, presentations, and education events.

The initiative to combat impaired drivers was made possible with support by Funding Navigator, a grant application management solution that simplifies the grant application process, helping public safety agencies nationwide to find, apply for, and win grants.

Social Media Template

Visual:

Show a picture of the equipment your grant helped you purchase or consider an image that represents the impact you can achieve thanks to the grant funding. If you use an image in your blog post/newsroom article and link to it, the image will likely pull-through when you post on social. Visual examples can be found here: https://fundingnav.org/impact/

Copy:

Explain the funding you received and what it will go towards to help improve the community

Link:

Provide a link to the article on your blog/newsroom for people to read more about it.

EXAMPLE:
St. Joe PD:

We’re pleased to share that we received $XXX in grant funding to help combat impaired drivers and save lives in our community. The funding goes towards more patrols, improved public awareness, and officer training. Read more in our newsroom: link.

[Project/equipment/solution] is supported by Funding Navigator, a grant application management solution, designed for and trusted by public safety agencies nationwide.

Connect with Funding Navigator

Social media

Connect with us on Social! And feel free to tag us in your social media posts.

You can find us on:

Website link

We welcome you to provide a link to our website to help others find us so we can help them through their grant process. You may use: https://fundingnav.org

Success stories

We’d love to share your news on our website! Help us highlight the impact you’re making with this grant by reaching out to us at [email protected].

Using the Funding Navigator logo

You are encouraged to include the Funding Navigator logo in your communications to celebrate our shared success. Please link it to fundingnav.org so others can learn more about the program and how it supports organizations like yours.

Use the logo in places like:

Press releases or social media posts announcing your award
Webpages, newsletters, or presentations highlighting your achievement

Featuring the logo helps recognize Funding Navigator’s role as your partner in progress—and shows how collaboration leads to meaningful results.

How to Download: Simply right-click on any of the logos shown here and select “Save image as…” to download a JPEG for your materials.