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title: "PLV Communications & Fundraising Guide"
description: "**Your Role as a PLV** As a **Project Lead Volunteer (PLV)**, you act on behalf of Devxchange in an official volunteer capacity. Your job is to support Devxchange’s oversight, communication, reporting, and fundraising for an assigned grantee. ## **What You…"
url: "https://member.devxchange.org/betterdocs/fundraisingpolicy/fundraising-policies/"
updated: "2026-05-13"
category: Fundraising
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# PLV Communications & Fundraising Guide

**Your Role as a PLV**

As a **Project Lead Volunteer (PLV)**, you act on behalf of Devxchange in an official volunteer capacity.

Your job is to support Devxchange’s oversight, communication, reporting, and fundraising for an assigned grantee.

## **What You *Can* and *Cannot* Do**

### **✔ PLVs Can:**

- Answer general donor questions and direct them to proper links
- Represent Devxchange when communicating with the grantee
- Gather updates, reports, photos, and financial info
- Help Devxchange verify activities and monitor progress
- Support Devxchange fundraising for the project’s annual budget
- Draft grant materials for Devxchange to review
- Promote Devxchange initiatives using approved wording and images

### **❌ PLVs Cannot:**

- Approve funding, budgets, or grants
- Collect or hold donations personally
- Use grantee logos without Devxchange being primary

**Important:**

PLVs **do not** have authority to:

- approve grants
- release or commit funds
- make promises to donors or grantees
- negotiate agreements
- bind Devxchange legally

Devxchange staff and board make all decisions.
PLVs support — they do not decide.

### **Approved Language Examples (Copy/Paste)**

### **✔ Safe Phrases**

- “I volunteer with Devxchange to support Devxchange’s \[Project Name\] initiative.”
- “Devxchange delivers charitable activities through a grant to **\[Grantee Name\]**.”
- “Donations support Devxchange’s approved charitable activities.”
- “Devxchange oversees all planning, funding, and reporting.”

**✔ Allowed Images**

- Photos that reflect Devxchange’s approved charitable activities
- Photos taken by the **grantee**, approved by Devxchange
- Photos of **beneficiaries with consent**
- Images showing dignity, strength, daily activities

## **Grant Writing Guidelines for PLVs**

**PLVs may:**

- Help gather information
- Draft content
- Submit drafts to Devxchange staff for review

**Please Do Not:**

- Submit grants directly
- Describe the project as belonging to the grantee