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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sgEngage

MARCH 25, 2025

But some organizations might benefit from a financial review as a first step to, or in place of, a formal audit. Both financial reviews and audits serve important purposes, but they differ significantly in scope and detail. What is a Financial Review? The review process also involves fewer personnel hours than an audit.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A 10-page application doesn’t make sense—for the applicant or the reviewer—but you need enough information to know if you are making a good decision. Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. Organization Background and Experience.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There are four core reports, known as financial statements, that nonprofits should create to review financial data and activities. This allows you to compare your planned versus actual financial activities and evaluate how closely your organization was able to stick to its budget. Four Main Financial Statements for Nonprofits 1.

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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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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.

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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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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. After reviewing the data, they found that the paper checks were often credited to the wrong account, arriving too late, or not getting received at all. Reserves at least one hour each week for research.

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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

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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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

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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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

From toilet paper and tacos, to vacation rentals and online courses, a star rating is the status quo for reviewing pretty much any customer experience. More fairly designed systems could, in theory, mitigate racial, gender, and language biases (among others) and the negative effect they have on workers, leading to more accurate evaluations.

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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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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

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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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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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. Offer to draft, edit, review and improve the acknowledgment emails or letters the organization sends to donors. Miscellaneous.

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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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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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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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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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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. This includes reviewing your process documentation or creating it if necessary.

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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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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

Review Systematically How do you evaluate whether your organization’s data is pristine, polluted, or somewhere in the murky in-between? Assessing the status of your data involves reviewing activity across several areas of competence. Granting access while guiding usage builds a culture where data is valued.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A huge thank you to Audrey Kidwell, Grants Manager for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, for providing many of the resources and tips included in this article. Conduct a Risk Assessment Evaluate your organization to identify which processes would be most impacted by a climate event. Hurricanes. Prolonged droughts.

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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. GrantAdvisor allows anyone in the nonprofit community to anonymously write reviews about their grant experiences with foundations. Buffer :: buffer.com. Emojipedia :: emojipedia.org. GrantAdvisor :: grantadvisor.org.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2025

If your nonprofit has ever tried to revamp its website , acquire a grant, or prepare for an audit, you know there are some roles for which your team simply isnt prepared. Lets review the best practices your nonprofit should implement to write an outstanding RFP. As your nonprofit grows, so will its need for outsourced expertise.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. And you’ll know exactly how much you need to raise during that season if you take the time to do a midyear evaluation now.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

We streamlined the application process, eliminated the written reporting requirement, and, 18 days later, awarded the first round of grants in Greater Boston. Over 10 weeks, we distributed 181 grants totaling $4.5 This process is repeated across three full review meetings, ensuring a cooperative decision-making process.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2024

Review funding history, including donations, grants, sponsorships, or program income, to determine which sources can be repeated for the budget year, what areas have room for growth, and where diversification is needed. Review Expenses Independently Budgeting by department helps break down the budget into manageable pieces.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For those familiar with the process, developing an application for any type of financial support (grants, corporate sponsorship , contract, etc.) These are often aligned with the funder’s strategic priorities and should also align with the criteria for evaluating a successful proposal. Review the criteria for an award.

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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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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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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Year-end performance reviews can be time-consuming. After all, performance evaluations directly impact professional reputations, salary increases, bonuses, and promotions. A separate MIT study found that both employees and managers rarely review these same goals and objectives throughout the year.

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