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How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

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As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. It may also not align with the latest trends and best practices in philanthropy. This means that they may have more options and choices when it comes to applying for grants.

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Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

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Grants managers are adept problem solvers. 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. Writing RFPs and managing technology migrations detract from grants managers’ ability to process grants.

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4 Ways to Help Your Grantmaking Organization Adopt an Emergent Learning Mindset

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In our webinar with Satonya Fair, CEO and President of PEAK Grantmaking, she shared these tips for shedding the idea of “best practices” and how grantmaking organizations can cultivate a culture of learning and unlearning. Be committed to your own internal change as an individual.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. Ask what they want to see as a result of grant funding and how they will know that it has happened?

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How to Write Job Descriptions for Your Nonprofit

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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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I Signed up for What?! A Primer for Pre- and Post-Award Grant Readiness

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This trend is not limited to a specific size or experience level of nonprofits, as both large and small, experienced and new, are venturing into these funding opportunities. However, many organizations are unprepared for the multitude of regulations and requirements associated with managing federally funded programs.

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Advice from Grantmakers on Streamlining Your Tech Solutions

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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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