Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. Come along with us as we explore how nonprofit grant management software is evolving and what cool new things it can do to help organizations like yours get and use funding to make a real difference.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Better Giving launched its Better Giving Manifesto, a declaration for change in how nonprofits access funding and resources online.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Members pay annual membership dues for access to peer learning and thought leadership opportunities, events and more. As a result, many companies, including startups, are finding flexible ways to match funds, allowing people to donate in flexible ways that ignite them and their passion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

One of the major barriers for the billions of people who lack safe water and sanitation is access to financing to fund the solutions they need to survive. Families in need can access small, affordable loans and expert local resources to make household taps and toilets a reality, immediately. Creating powerful solutions.

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Foundation is investing more than $5M to support organizations that leverage community organizing to shift power by helping underserved communities access federal and local funding and control how those funds are spent.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Those low-cost tools can be a great way to launch and gain momentum, but there comes a point for every nonprofit when the time it takes to manage your fund accounting workarounds outweighs the cost of upgrading your system. It may be time to look for a fund accounting system with subfund capabilities when you notice these three signs.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 7, 2022

The very funds this good CEO needs are right in front of her. But she cannot, no matter how hard she tries, reach out and access them because she actually thinks that it will offend the donor. A CEO listed 60 to 100 people she knew who either had given some financial support already or could give if asked.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

By Kyle Brown , COO at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. By reducing the friction for donors and nonprofits, stock gifting is now accessible and easy for everyone – and now donors can donate stock to their favorite cause in just a few clicks. . Why Stock Gifting?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Compromised Audit Trail Without a clear and consistent audit trail, it can be challenging to trace transactions and ensure that all funds are accounted for. You dont need to decipher where the funds need to go when your systems are connected. This creates a single source of truth that everyone can access.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

A good finance team will make sure bills are paid on time, reports are accurate, and the Board of Directors has access to the current financial statements. Providing view-only access to your fund accounting dashboards allows board members to acclimate to nonprofit financials. A good finance team will help you stay where you are.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This means distinctly separating net assets with donor restrictions, such as grant funding, from those without donor restrictions to better understand the liquidity of your resources. An organized record-keeping system ensures your nonprofit can easily access key financial data when the time comes to compile your financial statements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Steve Latham , CEO & Co-founder at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. Philanthropy is at an inflection point and fundraisers are looking opportunistically beyond cash and credit as their sole sources of funding. That’s a big piggy bank.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Maintaining compliance can protect existing funding, as well. The Importance of Accurate Time Allocation for Nonprofits Accurate time allocation is a cornerstone for nonprofit organizations, especially those with grant funding. Grants often come with specific stipulations on how funds should be allocated and reported.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2024

One funding trend Candids Research team recently unearthed is that education fundings share of philanthropic giving, especially from institutional grantmakers, is shrinking. Education remains a funding priority but with a shrinking share Education has been a top priority for both institutional grantmakers and individual donors.

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Candid

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In Sarasota County, it destroyed million-dollar homes on barrier islands, impacting the donors nonprofits and foundations rely on for disaster relief funding. Hurricane Helene: The challenge of underinvestment Floods dont attract as much funding as hurricanes and tropical storms. million was disbursed, despite much more being pledged.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Strategic donor engagement, transparent reporting, and meaningful community involvement create the foundation for sustainable funding that powers long-term homelessness initiatives in underserved areas. Hidden barriers in rural communities The ripple effects of limited financial access touch every aspect of housing stability.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hospitals are increasingly finding that mobile clinics fulfill their community benefit requirements and revolutionize access to healthcare for underserved populations in both urban and rural areas. They are a testament to creativity, compassion, and a touch of logistical wizardry.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Embrace Cloud-Based Processes Cloud-based digital processes enable your staff to access necessary systems from anywhere. As the Center for Disaster Philanthropy notes in their tips for disaster giving, funders should be patient in planning their disaster funding, because the impact of the disaster will unfold over time.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The data reveals important insights into disparities in leadership, funding, and support. Susan Taylor Batten, president and CEO of ABFE, highlights what Black-led nonprofits are missing out on by not receiving adequate funding. These leaders are already delivering results in their communities.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Add those up and then compare that amount to whats in your emergency fund and figure out how much runway you have to live on with only that money, she says. Rather than treating yourself to a new dress, treat yourself to more money in your emergency fund, Rebell says. Practice politely declining invitations, Rebell says.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

From funding uncertainty to overlapping natural disasters to the possibility of another global pandemic, the modern grantmaker must be prepared for a variety of challenges. What used to take weeks can now take days, which is crucial if someone has been displaced by a natural disaster and cant access their mailbox.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

As a funder, you probably wish you could fund them all. To avoid wading through funding applications that dont meet your program criteriaand wasting the time of those nonprofits submitting those applicationsyou should include an eligibility quiz before the formal application. What is an Eligibility Quiz for a Funding Application?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Segregation of Duties and Cross Training It is not uncommon, especially for small organizations, to have challenges with segregation of physical access, recording, and authorization functions. Because most nonprofits are already highly digital, physical access is becoming less of an issue than electronic access to your organization’s assets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It can be helpful to lead a planning process within your own organization that examines your organizational assets and access so you can translate them into benefits. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Shout out to Get Fully Funded !

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

They must work with advancement teams to understand scholarship funding, find students who fit donors specific requirements, shepherd those students through the application process, manage scholarship review committees, disburse awards, and report back to the donors how their funds were utilized.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Far too many times in history we see nonprofits struggling to keep up with the latest technologies due to limited resources and limited funds – but not with Web3! Benefits of Web3 for Nonprofits: Security for donor PII and funds. Transparency to keep donors updated on how funds are used.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 1, 2025

We interviewed Jan Komrska, a pharmacist then serving as the ready-to-use therapeutic food procurement manager at UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children; Tiddo von Schoen-Angerer, a pediatrician who was leading the access to medicines campaign at Doctors Without Borders, a medical charity; and Thomas Couaillet, a Nutriset executive.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2025

Show You Have Nothing to Hide in Allocation of Funds Blackbaud Institute research found 76% of donors are concerned about what portion of their donation goes to overhead. Or, if a donor wants to know where their funds are going, pull up an accountability summary of the gift. Remember the donor who wanted an accountability summary?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

Submit three grant applications by March 31, targeting $100,000 in potential funding. Owner: Annual Fund Manager. Keep everything in one place where your team can easily access it. Once youve captured all the moving parts, youre ready to start setting priorities and turning plans into action. Owner: Development Team.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Mary’s Pence funds women-led organizations and groups working for social change in the U.S., A High Achiever in Pursuit of Education The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation opens doors for low-income, high-achieving students to access a quality education. Mary’s Pence is creative in funding ESPERA. Central America, and Mexico.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2024

These programs are often ineffective because they do not address the unique needs of Black-led organizations such as funding disparities, budgetary constraints, lack of operational support and access to the same networks as their white peers, and the broader structural barriers that Black leaders face, including anti-Blackness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Sponsored by GalaBid – a digital fundraising platform that helps thousands of nonprofits raise funds through live and online silent auctions, digital raffles, and donations. Online silent auctions help non-profits raise funds effectively without having to organize a full-scale in-person event. Want to see for yourself?

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VisionLink

AUGUST 20, 2023

Here are a few examples: A single case record accessible across the NGO sector will allow for faster access to vulnerable households and also help to equitably manage financial assistance and direct services. Donated funds from a variety of sources may be made available and dispersed directly from the case record to increase equity.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

If losing tags is putting you one step closer to finding a new fund accounting softwareor you are just scrambling to figure out how to track restricted revenue in QuickBookshere are some tips for what you can do in the short term, and what you need to look for in the long-term. There is a better way.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

And Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, announced gifts totaling $150 million to hospitals in Hawaii to increase access to health care. 22 million to Nonprofit Finance Fund; $15 million to Craft3; and $10 million to Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs in Atlanta.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. Accessible Social :: accessible-social.com Accessible Social is a free resource hub for digital marketers to discover how to make social media content accessible. Wix :: wix.com Squarespace is a do-it-yourself, low-cost website builder.

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