Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API. It’s well-documented at this point that people are hungry to engage with causes they care about in various forms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Reading, research, collaborating with others, getting my hands dirty with servers and code, playing with new applications and new APIs – all of those things keep my technology expertise fresh. And I can’t stay a technology expert without continually learning. at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! 2 admin 07.11.08

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2024

To receive a grant, you’re typically required to submit a proposal, progress reports, and a final narrative and financial report. This includes grants data, peer organizations’ donors, news articles, and information about funder organizations’ officers. Here’s how I research prospective funders before approaching them.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2019

The good news is that, no matter where you are, there are a lot of potential grants. If your organization has fundamentally different values from those of the grantor, writing a compelling application could be challenging. Likewise, government grants tend to be more time-consuming and require more documentation. In the U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —the largest private foundation in the world—launched standard, streamlined procedures for its grant processing that included new tools to focus documentation and analysis on the key topics supported by its philanthropy. Why the Environment Changed: Federal Grant News. “It

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. Most people will forgive an occasional grammar or spelling error, but writing letter after letter and document after document littered with spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and choppy sentence flow will dilute the credibility of a writer—and a nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

They raise money by crafting documents that reflect the terms of those who give it. The fit between mission and program is among the most frequent topics on applications. Over many years, my colleagues and I at The Rensselaerville Institute have learned that proposals based on process, structure, and beliefs are needlessly long.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How do I navigate and write grant applications? How do I navigate and write grant applications? And the “How do I navigate and write grant applications?” So what are some of the main questions I hear from folks like you? They want to know, “How do I know what to apply for? You can select as many as you want.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So first of all, the very bad news. The good news about that is they’re given out 15% to 19% of their assets. But what if you’re looking for some new foundations or you heard of a foundation you really want to get in touch with and it says, “We do not accept unsolicited proposals”? No, no, no.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. Nonprofits are held to a high standard of accountability, and news of noncompliance can breed distrust.

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