Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session : Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. This social capital encourages employees to turn to colleagues to get useful assistance or advice about future initiatives.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Philanthropy back to the drawing board: Shaping a Future Agenda , by Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea)  In the face of ever evolving and mounting crises, this book by Rien van Gendt urges philanthropy to stop looking to the past for answers. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023. 

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Todays question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to increase donor-advised funds: Dear Charity Clairity, Ive been hearing a lot about donor-advised funds as a growing source of philanthropic dollars, but Im not sure how to go about leveraging some of this money. Your job, as a philanthropy facilitator , is to help them!

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Candid

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Without this directly reported data, Candid would be able to offer the field relatively little information on how philanthropy is addressing today’s challenges and helping communities thrive. Doing so can also be easy, thanks to Candid’s partnerships with several grants management software vendors. .

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s what fuels curiosity, energizes you, and uplifts you during challenging times in the dynamic realm of grant writing. Amidst this whirlwind, one thing remains constant — the grant writing community. Amidst this whirlwind, one thing remains constant — the grant writing community.

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Candid

JUNE 26, 2024

How to Write a Grant Proposal by Cheryl Carter New and James Aaron Quick. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions, real-life examples, and templates to help you master the art of writing successful grant proposals. Read Philanthropy News Digest ’s (PND) review.

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2024

Institutional funders are typically organizations with large budgets and long grant cycles, such as government agencies, corporations, and foundations. Assess your readiness to apply for grants You’ll need to assess your capacity before you start the grantseeking process and funder prospecting efforts.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Often when grant professionals come into new roles, they are responsible for standing up the new grant management function at their organization. If this includes the capacity to manage grants with a federal origin, the task can be daunting. Assess your organization’s past performance with grants.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation?

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Candid

AUGUST 11, 2022

Most people already know that corporations give grants. In-kind gifts are contributions by corporations of goods or services, other than cash grants. . CSR includes corporate philanthropy, but also environmental issues, employee engagement, and corporate governance. . What types of support do corporations give? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2012

Please follow any of these links to see our questions and to share your experiences, thoughts or advice on any of these areas. 5) Continue to assess our grantmaking, including building on the Goldmine Research Project and Monitor’s Network Learning to look at case studies of making multiple grants to a single grantee.

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. The Trust-Based Philanthropy Project states: “the work of nonprofits is long-term and unpredictable.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Levey Philanthropy professionals who work on behalf of hospitals listed major donor development, retention and upgrades and refilling the donor pipeline as their top three fundraising priorities, according to a new study. Image from Digitalhealthstrategies.com By Richard H.

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Candid

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The most significant hurdle facing “ crypto-philanthropy ” continues to be a gap in education. This Venn diagram highlights the overlapping ideals like transparency, real-world impacts, and mission-driven work that Web3 and traditional philanthropy share. Enter the crypto-philanthropy landscape!?. per transaction.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Requested Grant Funding Related (20 percent).

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

Nonprofit professionals working in this sector of philanthropy cite a strong belief in their organization’s mission and daily activities as critical to continuing to make an impact, even in challenging times. This desire to help others is also expressed in the philanthropy of those practicing Islam. Pandemic Impact.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We hear about Trust-Based Philanthropy and having a more grantee-centered approach to grantmaking. Empathy I have had the honor of being both a grant researcher/writer/steward and a re-grantor. I often wonder what proportion of the folks working in philanthropy have had the privilege of also working in a nonprofit, and vice versa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

And, as much as we can, we’ve tried to do this in public—sharing our thinking online in real time and asking grantees, colleagues, and the world at large for their feedback and advice. Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

And while we would welcome any input on our strategic questions we wanted to continue highlighting a few questions for which we would like specific advice: How do you use intermediaries to help non-profit organizations build their organizational capacity?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on the best fundraising strategy for new nonprofits. . annual appeal, grant proposal, special event, etc.) I would highly recommend a course like the one offered through The Fundraising School at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 4, 2010

Today’s blog post is provided by my dear friend and grant writer extraordinaire, Charlaine Hood. The biggest tip about writing a grant is to get over your fear: of failure, of not getting it right, of not including enough…what ever your mind is telling you to hold you back from ever trying to write that B-I-G grant.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer? Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. They hope to reach out to residents and spark conversations about philanthropic work and to give advice and assistance to residents who want to advance charitable causes. We got advice not to do that.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

But what about some of your highest-impact communications— grant proposals ? Do your grant applications tell stories that catch the attention of funders and illustrate the real impact their support will have on your community? Why Does Storytelling Matter for Grant Writers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. The report describes three possible scenarios in detail and analyzes the impact for social change an philanthropy. In addition to the stories, you’ll find additional resources related to each theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Source: Philanthropy 2.0 Last week, Geoff Livingston , Qui Diaz and I posted a summary of our findings from our Philanthropy 2.0 The goal of our Community Philanthropy 2.0 Allison Fine offers some great advice for getting "unstuck" . research, a survey of the giving habits of the social media savvy, over at Mashable.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on where to seek endowment funding for their local historic charity. . Not to mention the fact that they may have no demonstrated history of philanthropy ! . Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It goes to show that nothing stays the same for very long – even philanthropy. They often contact me after beginning their own market research and discovering that choosing a Grants Management System (GMS) is a highly complex affair, fraught with risk and uncertainty. Start with people. Or are they fairly straightforward?

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to build a nonprofit mailing list: Dear Charity Clairity, We’ve relied in the past on government and foundation grants, but since many of these sources are drying up we need to develop an individual fundraising program. Have a challenge grant from a business?

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2011

projects can be expensive, and not all foundations are excited to award grants for an IT overhaul. The Chronicle of Philanthropy summarized the debate nicely and features advice from Beth Kanter. To facilitate nonprofit blogging, she recently laid out an awesome strategy for getting started. Check it out ! Funding I.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

LCF annually raises all of its operating and grant-making dollars and is currently, a $1.2M LCF inspires philanthropy from the Latino community and invests in community driven solution lead by Latino-based organizations. In 6 weeks, we raised $10,000 and made mini-grants to three Latino based organizations.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. The more you grow corporate support, the more others in your community trust that you’re a worthwhile beneficiary of their philanthropy.

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Kindful

APRIL 28, 2021

” Granted, hybrid fundraising events won’t automatically accomplish this goal based on their format alone. Remember, there’s nothing that says your first hybrid event needs to be a complicated, large-scale affair.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Twitter Helps Intel Foundation Plan Grants - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : The Intel Foundation plans to award $100,000 in education grants to celebrate its 25th anniversary, and it turned to Twitter for advice on what programs and organizations to support. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Submitted by Lucy Bernholz, publisher of Philanthropy 2173. Everything I have seen in philanthropic innovation in the last two decades is predicated on this simple observation—there are two kinds of philanthropy products: financial products and information products. These are exciting developments.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is known as a culture of philanthropy. . A culture of philanthropy means that everyone in the organization understands that philanthropy and fund development are critical to the organization’s health and that everyone has a role in the process. Don’t take your board members for granted.

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Qgiv

MARCH 12, 2024

There are many ways a business can participate in corporate philanthropy to produce benefits for both the corporation and the nonprofits they partner with. Benefits of corporate giving programs Corporate giving program ideas Getting started with corporate philanthropy Corporate giving software What is corporate giving? Tax benefits.

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