NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

New this year, AWS is proud to announce three IMAGINE grant categories! Whether you want to accelerate foundational IT projects or think big with Generative AI, each grant includes unrestricted funding, AWS cloud credits and numerous technical, training and marketing resources.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Trends in evaluation are worth paying attention to. They may not take over your social media feed with witty memes or become the latest office buzz, but they are profoundly important for nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 7, 2024

– a Google-certified digital marketing agency focused on the Google Ad Grants Program and recommended 600+ clients. Google Ad Grants is a program that offers a unique opportunity for nonprofits to harness the power of Google Ads, providing them with up to $10,000 per month in free advertising credits. What is Google Ad Grants?

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NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Is your team equipped to get reporting, budgeting, grant management, audits, and payroll right? This guide covers the bases – download to understand nonprofit-specific functionality, how to navigate the process, FAQs, and ways to ensure your team is positioned to support your organization’s long-term financial health.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 14, 2025

Now your grant management system (GMS) is the hub of your grantmaking organization, and simple API integrations allow you to plug in the systems that work best for you. Evaluate how well the potential partners systems integrate with your existing technology stack and whether they support seamless data exchange. Data visualization.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

By Jackie Sue Griffin Securing grant funding is crucial to a nonprofits growth, and it starts with crafting a well-planned and realistic budget. Before diving into the budgeting process, its essential for nonprofit managers to thoroughly review the grant guidelines and restrictions provided by the funding organization.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

By Shauna O’Toole, CFRE, GPC You encountered inefficiency, frustration, or even conflict when working with a group to develop a grant proposal. Adjourning: The team completes its deliverables and evaluates the project. Sometimes a grant professional is overlooked as a leader because their work tends to be task-based and independent.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Organization Background and Experience.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 28, 2024

By Jackie Sue Griffin Securing grant funding is crucial to a nonprofit’s growth, and it starts with crafting a well-planned and realistic budget. Understanding the specific requirements and limitations outlined in the grant application is crucial for developing a budget that aligns with the funder’s priorities and expectations.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 8, 2024

The 2024 IMAGINE Grant cycle is now open. Visit the submission portal today to download guidelines, review criteria for evaluation, and submit your proposal!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Two Ten is using a survey to evaluate their processes and remove barriers so they are continually improving their grantee experience. Establish Multiple Grant Pathways When you identify a different need that still fits within your mission, a new grant pathway allows you to stay flexible while also maintaining your core funding program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds. Raising funds and winning grants is difficult and requires significant staff time and resources. Similarly, a grant might have specific conditions like the types of activities it can fund or allowances for overhead expenses.

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Charity Village

AUGUST 22, 2024

Disability Alliance BC invites British Columbia-based not-for-profits to apply for Accessibility Projects Grants. The 2024 grants total $450,000 available to BC-based not-for-profit organizations, with eligible organizations set to receive up to $40,000.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This allows you to compare your planned versus actual financial activities and evaluate how closely your organization was able to stick to its budget. 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.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Most people don’t write grants with this in mind. Most grant writers just start with long responses to grant applications, instead of first setting up their own plan. This 6-step GRANTS Writing Formula can help!

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 14, 2023

To avoid overwhelming your team, standardize how you receive and process grant applications at your organization. Having a predictable and consistent grant cycle will ensure your team members are able to evaluate each request efficiently and effectively. Teams can even build statuses that are specific to grant types.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As of May 2024, the MMMU benchmark , which evaluates responses to college-level questions, scored GPT-4o at 60%, compared with an 83% human average. Benchmarks created to assess the performance of AI tools compared with humans on tasks such as image classification, visual reasoning, and English understanding show the gaps narrowing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Check with your team’s designated web expert to evaluate your website regarding basic technical standards. 5) Apply for a Google Grant. While Google carefully guards their search engine algorithm, they do offer in-kind grants for nonprofits (up to $10,000 per month) for their paid search (Google ads) platform.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

Understand Your Organization’s Capacity Your organization should consider these four components before applying for any grant, especially those connected to federal dollars. How will the program continue after the grant concludes? Risk Analysis – what could threaten the project or the organization?

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Grants can be a wonderful vehicle to fund a new program or expand an existing one; however, if your organization is new to the “grant world,” you may be unfamiliar with the work involved with both applying and managing grants. In other words, let’s look at the readiness to apply for grants and readiness to manage grant projects.

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Candid

AUGUST 14, 2024

Greg Stanley at PEAK Grantmaking has argued that generative AI tools can streamline the grant application process by enabling grantmakers to summarize, categorize, and pre-screen applications and by making it easier for grantseekers to fill out application forms. Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant applications?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike many cycles of nonprofit operations, grant reporting doesn’t really have a season; it’s all year long. Grant reporting also varies widely by funder. Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. We call this our narrative report.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Candid has a wealth of data and insights on decades worth of foundation grants. This translates into a personalized grants prospecting experience designed to meet fundraisers unique funding needs. Finding a grants prospect is a daunting task, especially for small nonprofits that cannot afford to have dedicated fundraising teams.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Enabling Complex Scientific Research Established in 2021 with $650 million from its founding donors, Arc Institute empowers researchers to tackle long-term scientific challenges by providing scientists with multiyear funding letting scientists focus on innovative research instead of grant writing.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 7, 2024

A list to make evaluating ELT/ETL tools a bit less daunting Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash We’ve all been there: you’ve attended (many!) meetings with sales reps from all of the SaaS data integration tooling companies and are granted 14 day access to try their wares.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

A small gap with huge consequences Existing research has shown that when customers submit evaluations, individual workers from ethnic minority groups are more likely to be negatively evaluated, even if their performance and quality is the same. We often take for granted how apps are designed, says Botelho.

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Kindful

JULY 8, 2021

Whether it’s a gala, golf tournament, marathon, trivia night, or online wine tasting, the number one thing that gets overlooked in evaluating event costs is the human capital required to produce the event. To get better at understanding the trust cost of an event, you need to evaluate the event’s return on investment (ROI). .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

These may include delays in grant approvals, rescheduling of major events due to unforeseen circumstances, or sudden increases in demand for disaster relief services. Ongoing crises such as COVID or policy changes that eliminate funding for your organization require you to re-evaluate your strategy.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Grants and Donations: Actively seek grants and donations to support your disaster response initiatives. Conduct After-Action Reviews and Continuous Improvement After the immediate response phase, conducting after-action reviews is essential to evaluate your performance and identify areas for improvement.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In the Fall of 2023, organizations top-rated by their peers advanced to a second round of review by an external Evaluation Panel recruited for relevant experience to the cause and underwent a final round of due diligence. This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

While Candid is working to reduce that burden broadly, here is one specific way we are trying to help: by providing sample grant proposal documents. In this blog, we share the major types of grant proposal documents, their components, and free sample resources to show you what a successful version of each one looks like.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

The judges also determined the rules of the granting process in Fearless Foundation’s “Fearless Strivers Grant Contest,” constituted a contract and were therefore subject to anti racial-discrimination statutes found in 42 U.S. We are evaluating all of our options.” The ruling from the U.S. Code § 1981.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As Winston Churchill said, with great power comes great responsibility, and nowhere is that felt more acutely than those who are successful enough to receive federal grants. In these days of increased cost-effectiveness and budget cuts and redirects, being awarded a grant is an important accomplishment, but it is also a responsibility.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By actively bringing together different departments and leading discussions around revenue diversification, you can set measurable goals, evaluate the ROI of each funding source, and make informed decisions about where to invest time and resources. How to Measure: Evaluate cost per dollar raised, donor acquisition costs, and conversion rates.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In line with this signature clause, Google offers nonprofits an exclusive resource that can help them make the world a better place: the Google Ad Grant. Google Ad Grants are considered in-kind contributions. Once an organization receives an Ad Grant, it gets to keep it indefinitely, as long as it meets basic compliance standards.

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