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 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. A Guide to Evaluating Networks – Guest Post By Madeleine Taylor. Real network examples.

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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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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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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. Risk Analysis – what could threaten the project or the organization? Who might be a suitable partner to support the project? What needs are missing?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

When it worked, the project grew into a nonprofit. While the organization still builds the basic models in areas that dont have electricity, most projects are now more complex, using sensors to run automatically and switch between a utility water sourcesuch as a pipe running to a village welland stored rainwater.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Like it or not, grants are a necessity for nearly all nonprofits to stay alive and do good work. One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal. Once you plan your project, it will be easier to evaluate specific funding sources (our next step!)

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The analytics tool evaluates the effectiveness of your posts and provides the best times to share your content. Coolers is a color scheme generator that allows users to explore hundreds of color palettes for graphic design projects. See also the Noun Project. Buffer :: buffer.com. Emojipedia :: emojipedia.org. See also Snappa.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While most nonprofits find funding from a variety of sources, one of the staples of charitable support comes in the form of grants. Consequently, nonprofit professionals should be well versed in crafting and compiling well-written grant proposals. Method for evaluating your success. Goals, strategy, and evaluation (1 page each).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

See also the Noun Project. The analytics tools will also evaluate your posts to deduce the best possible times to share your content. Slack is a cloud-based tool for teams of staff and volunteers to collaborate on projects and communicate through focused messaging. Iconfinder :: iconfinder.com. Social Media. See also Asana.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Sustainability has also been a driver for development: Bristol City Leap , in the UK, is a citywide decarbonization program that will create hundreds of local green jobs; while Lamu Blue Carbon Project , a blue carbon credit program, will preserve mangrove habitats in coastal Kenya. 5,000 businesses have joined so far.In

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Theres also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. As you consider your next project, you, your internal project team, and your potential vendors all need to ask, Whats the Return on Mission for this project? That, then, is the bridge that connects overhead and mission costs.

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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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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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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. Reduction of time spent on grant reports. Increase in single donations.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

But inertia is not an option when your grant programs outgrow your current solution, or your vendor sunsets the software you use, like Salesforce is doing with their grant management software, FoundationConnect. It’s also important to understand how you determine success for your current grant programs.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cash Donations Lump Sum Contributions Lump sum donations are one-time financial gifts that can provide a significant boost to your nonprofit’s projects or initiatives. Volunteer Grant Programs Volunteer grant programs are offerings where employers provide grants to organizations where their employees volunteer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available. Is the donor renewal rate low?

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Her third round of grants in less than a year, Scott wrote that grant recipients were “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.” Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . Our analysis of Scott’s 2020 grants is available here.) .

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

In my more than 20 years as a philanthropy grants manager, nonprofit executive, and consultant, Ive seen how technology decisions can either amplify equity or entrench existing barriers. The AI Education Project provides AI-powered resources that streamline lesson planning and integrate AI literacy into classrooms. Build AI literacy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2011

How do you project short and long-term outcomes that are realistic, important, and feasible to measure? The answer is not "let the grant writer do it!". an effective results-oriented program evaluation system? As you implement the evaluation, discuss the findings with them and together create meaning from the data.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Grant management is the comprehensive process of overseeing all activities related to grants: from identifying recipients, to awarding funds, to reporting on outcomes all while maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Table of Contents Grant Lifecycle Who Handles Grant Management for Grantmaking Organizations?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2011

Paula Goldman shared some thoughts about foundation intent in using social media, particularly amplifying grantees work and thought leadership. In addition, Kathy Reich, mentioned the potential of using social media to help inform and improve grant-making strategy. The last evaluation of this work was a decade ago.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Of course nonprofits’ ability to accurately evaluate their impact is married to their funding. Grantee evaluation is a perennial hot topic in the foundation world, nonprofit evaluation is a lucrative industry in universities, and there is a whole high tech industry emerging to rate charities online led by Charity Navigator.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

Granted, it has been on the agenda of every executive ever since Henry Chesbrough’s seminal Open Innovation came out in 2003. " Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC) – "The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

According to the Well-being Project , changemakers experience high levels of burnout, stress, depression, chronic illness, and weak personal relationships. Even when that’s our intention, our practices of extractive, time-consuming, unnecessary grant applications, reports, meetings, and inflexible grant awards achieve the opposite.

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Candid

APRIL 15, 2024

Whether for expanding programs, launching new initiatives, or sustaining current projects, securing institutional funding is crucial to your organization’s ability to deliver on your mission. Institutional funders are typically organizations with large budgets and long grant cycles, such as government agencies, corporations, and foundations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who&# thought it up or campaigned for it. Leadership and decision making come from adoption not from executive authority.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

What’s clear is that a nonprofit’s resilience requires regular evaluation of its technology stack, the cost of letting antiquated systems linger is too great in the midst of a turbulent macro and micro environment. But how should a nonprofit approach evaluating their technology? The answer to that is in two parts.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

However, you can strategically cut other administrative costs by: Evaluating your organizations insurance plan to ensure youre getting the right amount of coverage for the best price. Track grant progress, either within the software or through an integration with a dedicated grant management system.

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