Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

All board members reviewed the organization, top to bottom, made changes, and seven years later, they are back on solid ground. They had recruited a nearly all-new board in critical professions. This task required serious, engaged, “Get ‘er Doners” to save the much-needed rural regional organization.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively. Change management: What is it?

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Neon CRM

APRIL 10, 2025

If your nonprofit relies on grants, you know how hard it can be to keep all the different phases of the grant management process on track at once. Thats why finding the right grant management software solution is such a crucial step for nonprofits looking to build a sustainable grant strategy.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. The Foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking system, and to expedite the timing, grants managers completed applications on behalf of island employees. “I

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. Collect and review any qualitative feedback you’ve received from applicants in the past. This means that they may have more options and choices when it comes to applying for grants.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge work is growing because it sits at an important intersection between grantmaking and equitable change. These are often perceived as disconnected from and less important than grant strategy. Fast forward to today….

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Audit firms have now, however, transitioned to long-term partners, particularly for nonprofits contemplating transformative system or operational changes. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Dave Doig, Director of Grants and Community Initiatives, Vancouver Foundation. Roshan Paul, Senior Change Manager, Ashoka. Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success. Teri Behrens, Director of Special Projects and Editor-in-Chief of The Foundation Review , Johnson Center for Philanthropy.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Just over one in five respondents (22%) have augmented their writing efforts, such as grant proposals, annual appeals, ad creation, social media posts through the use of AI. Part of this analysis might include reviewing the efficacy of short- and longer-term investments. “As But, which tech?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Dave Doig, Director of Grants and Community Initiatives, Vancouver Foundation. Roshan Paul, Senior Change Manager, Ashoka. Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success. Teri Behrens, Director of Special Projects and Editor-in-Chief of The Foundation Review , Johnson Center for Philanthropy.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s start by defining each type of solution, respectively, in the context of grants management software. No need to duct tape on a separate piece of software to manage your outside reviewers or get more in-depth reporting. What is the Difference Between Customized and Configured Software?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is the case whether the focus is eligibility criteria for applicants , determination of a slate of grants, or input into grantmaking strategy. This might include sharing a presentation in advance so people with learning or visual impairments have time for review. You can sign up for our newsletter on the website.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. The integrations between these solutions enabled Headwaters not only to accept the increased volume of donations but also to convert the funds to community grants.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

This can boost volunteer satisfaction and save your administrative team time that would have otherwise been spent managing shift sign ups. Review their personal schedules. Ensure your volunteer management app allows volunteers easy access to their schedules to help reduce no-shows. Review their personal schedules.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. The Center staff includes just five staff members (four full-time) plus one very part-time social media manager at five hours a week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant’s ” When Millennials Take Over ,” written with Jamie Notter.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Create a link to the guide anywhere that would be convenient for your team members to find, such as on your organization’s internal website or in a Links tile on your grant management system dashboard. Rely on record fields such as “added by,” “changed by,” or “changed by date” in your software’s query tool.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2010

On taking on the "tech leader" role more purposefully: At my last performance review, I requested and was granted a change of official job title from "Public Relations Coordinator" to "Public Relations and Technology Coordinator." we'd love to hear your story and your advice to others.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Before the migration to NPSP, it would take Foundation employees one full business day to pull reports and build this dashboard, another full business day for a team to review the data gathered, and then finally, on the next day, the dashboard would be unveiled to the whole of the Foundation featuring the previous month’s information.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Just over one in five respondents (22%) have augmented their writing efforts, such as grant proposals, annual appeals, ad creation, social media posts through the use of AI. Part of this analysis might include reviewing the efficacy of short- and longer-term investments. “As But, which tech?

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Stream Gift Fundraising Data 64

sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

employees, their families, the community, grant)? If you already have a vision statement, I invite you to review it and assess how well you’re doing at realizing it. What core values are important for promoting well-being within our organization? Who are the primary beneficiaries of our efforts (e.g.,

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. The integrations between these solutions enabled Headwaters not only to accept the increased volume of donations but also to convert the funds to community grants.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, if you were creating a job description for a development associate at your nonprofit, you might have a purpose statement that says: “The development associate will source and recommend grant applications to the development manager to ensure that the organization is exploring all of the funding resources available.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

According to Marsha, grantmaking organizations should look for ways to grow their Board and review committees to include community leaders. Show that your organization is willing to do the work—and that your DEI statement is not just words on a website—by finding opportunities to share power with community leaders.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

There are a few general steps that you should follow when looking to hire a nonprofit consulting firm for any type of project: Review your needs. Review your candidates. Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Data hygiene.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Say you rely on one platform for your organization’s accounting work, another for grant management, and another for online fundraising. To do so, follow these core steps: Review your needs.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

Grants managers are adept problem solvers. We review wire transfer forms for the global distribution of financial resources. These migrations slow us down considerably and distract us from the high-risk compliance and risk-mitigation work primary to our grants manager job descriptions. This is not the case.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Nonprofit Solutions, Sage Business Solutions. These measurements will form the basis of employee reviews. Managers in those organizations did observational "ride alongs", or recordings of calls and meetings with customers. You can follow Grant on Twitter: @geekbyte.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I saw that in an article I paraphrased, a part of an article I read about resilience in leadership in the Harvard Business Review probably six or seven months ago. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. I don’t know why.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Step 1: Assess Your Grants to Protect Existing Grant Funding If you are like many organizations with federal funding, you are in crisis management mode. Why is this important When you are crystal clear on the status of your current grants, you can more accurately understand where your risks are and better forecast challenges.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Before choosing a new vendor, review its product roadmap. Make sure you have the right people in the right roles to manage the switch. This includes a grants manager to handle day-to-day implementation tasks, as well as consistent leadership to support the change. What is the vendor’s roadmap?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2025

This focus on one solution is tied to many of the dysfunctions in the sector, but two, Overdependence on Data and Quantitative Metrics, and Funding Constraints and Grant Dependency, are most intimately tied to how we typically bring solutions to life. We like to represent our work like its clean, under control, and spot-on.

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