Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

Finding the right foundation to write a grant for is confusing, especially if the organization has no prior relationships to build on. Some foundations have open RFIs (Request for Information), open LOIs (Letter of Inquiry), RFPs (Request for Proposal) and others have open calls for applications around a campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 11, 2023

When most people think about funding a nonprofit, they think they should look for grants. After all, there are thousands of foundations out there that exist to give money away. In order to raise the most money for your cause and create a stable future for your organization, you need several different sources of funding.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

“Where do I look to find grants for my nonprofit?” Getting grant funds is REALLY exciting! Also, getting a grant means a funder values your nonprofit and trusts you’ll put their money to good use. A Grant is What We Need (or is it?) Plus, grants are never guaranteed from year to year.

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sgEngage

MAY 13, 2022

Philanthropy has had a history of being notoriously opaque and inaccessible to organizations seeking funding. In my years as a grantseeker and nonprofit consultant, I’ve waded through dozens of ambiguous foundation websites that make it impossible to know how to get even a foot in the door to be considered for funding. Be accessible.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2024

At the same time, there is often a visceral emotional reaction to the idea of not doing an annual report as it can often be one of the few times your organization celebrates what it has accomplished. Let’s make it an incredible resource for sharing your organization’s story and engaging supporters. So don’t give up your annual report.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

In recent years, relationships between nonprofit organizations and their auditors have seen positive change. The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The application process is an organization’s first real look at how you work with grantees. It’s also your chance as a foundation to see if this organization is a good fit for your program. Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

Data is the foundation for every technological initiative. Data that accurately reflects your members and their preferences is the key to trust, engagement, and enduring relationships. The inability to safeguard personal information puts those relationships at risk. A security incident is a disaster of the highest order.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Many foundations focus much of their philanthropy work on youth empowerment—and for good reason. The foundations on this list are just a few of the many that understand the importance that youth empowerment plays in helping young people from all backgrounds grow and excel during this critical stage of their life. Kellogg Foundation.

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Candid

JULY 8, 2024

Foundation program officers and government officials can unintentionally limit the impact of community-based organizations by funding them to serve only a specific demographic group and a narrow set of activities. Community-based organizations doing this work enable regular people to build power.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 19, 2021

Grantmaking foundations have the financial resources that nonprofit organizations need to accomplish their work. Nonprofit organizations are doing the work essential to further the grantmaking foundation’s mission. Grantmaking practices are important to grantmaking foundations. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Mellon Foundation.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Foundations play a crucial role in supporting nonprofit organizations and driving positive change within communities. However, in recent years, there has been a growing recognition that foundations possess the potential to offer more than just monetary resources.

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Roles Foundation Leadership Community 82

Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

In 2023, foundations contributed 19% of overall giving ($103.5 In contrast, the Giving USA Foundation’s annual report highlights that donations rose to $557.16 Foundations: Contributed $103.53 Taking precedence — for instance — over grants or business support. in 2022 to 67.2% in 2023, down from 73% in 2013.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Essential Grant Writing Tips for Your Nonprofit. Grants are a great funding resource— over $50 billion dollars are awarded by foundations to charitable organizations every year. As a grant writer, you certainly carry an important responsibility. Make sure you are a good fit.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2024

news organizations, specifically local news outlets, have been rapidly dwindling. MacArthur, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations have recognized the importance of a vibrant local news ecosystem. A 2021 study by the foundation found local outlets struggling to secure new revenue streams. The number of U.S. Knight, John D.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Many nonprofit organizations struggle to engage their board members with fundraising, especially the act of asking another person for money. Make a one-time or monthly financial contribution to the organization. Give in-kind support to the organization in a way that actually helps. This could be done annually or just one time.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Over the course of 2020, MacKenzie Scott announced grants totaling almost $6 billion. As gestures of transparency, she released lists of recipient organizations in July and in December. At the time, we did not know anything about the grants themselves. These grants represent about $2.4 Grant size distribution.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2024

Two days after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the Boston Foundation set up a special fund to provide rapid-response support to local nonprofits serving communities disproportionately affected by the outbreak. Over 10 weeks, we distributed 181 grants totaling $4.5

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Candid

AUGUST 15, 2024

Fundraisers need support to help their organizations sustain day-to-day operations, implement and expand programs, and ensure financial stability for future planning and long-term projects. Is your nonprofit organization ‘grant-ready’? Are you seeking a grant from a foundation for the first time?

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Tips Fundraising Grant Nonprofit 81

Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Five Salesforce Clouds to consider using at your organization. Because Nimble AMS is powered by Salesforce, your association can easily integrate any of the Salesforce Clouds, granting you immediate value and meeting your association’s needs. Is your organization hoping to boost productivity, generate leads, and increase revenue?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? . That’s where the power of grants can come in. In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Grants can be a great way to diversify your nonprofit’s revenue.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you know there are more than 87,000 foundations that award grants? . That’s where the power of grants can come in. In this blog post, we’ll first explore why grants are important to nonprofits. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Grants can be a great way to diversify your nonprofit’s revenue.

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Grant Guide Proposal Nonprofit 78

sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These are core elements of trust and of any good relationship. Empathy I have had the honor of being both a grant researcher/writer/steward and a re-grantor. I have felt the frustration of completing horribly constructed online grant applications and experienced the exhilaration of being awarded significant funds.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As Blackbaud’s second virtual bbcon event approaches, we’re very excited about the fantastic session topics and speakers we’ve lined up within the Foundations track. To-date, close to 14,000 people are registered, and we’re expecting over 1,000 of your foundation and grantmaking peers to attend the event on October 13-15 this year.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Organizations that specialize in directing funding are believed to bring deeper expertise and impact to their fields of focus, have insight into best practices within specific issues and areas and concerns and be more adept at funding initiatives and organizations that advance knowledge in their fields, according to a new report.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 29, 2024

Grant professionals have historically used Form 990 tax information filings as a central resource for cutting a long list of maybe-maybe-not foundations down to a short list of solid prospects. Part XV, Line 3 of that form requires foundations to list the amounts, recipients, and purposes of grants made in the fiscal year.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

For every $100 foundations give to an Ivy League school, how many dollars do you think foundations give to a historically Black college and university (HBCU)? In fact, for every $100 foundations gave to the average Ivy League, they gave 56 cents to the average HBCU. HBCUs have long played a pivotal role in the United States.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

Giving to religion-based organizations often tops lists of philanthropic statistics. In fact, in the recent Giving USA 2020 report , donors gave more than $131 billion to religion-based organizations in the United States in 2020. . Unique Opportunities for Those Working for Religion-Based Organizations.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Yet when I was writing that article, it was an afterthought, just like it is for far too many charitable organizations, though it shouldn’t be. Simply put, stewarding a donor is what a non-profit does (or should be doing) from the time of the first gift, and lasting until that donor no longer has a relationship with the organization.

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The Fundraising Authority

JANUARY 2, 2021

Like great sales organizations, great development operations need a constant stream of prospects… individuals, companies, and foundations that are, or are likely to be, interested enough in your mission to donate funds to your non-profit. Non-ask events are just that: non-ask… the fundraising asks will come later in the relationship.

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Candid

MAY 28, 2024

For a nonprofit organization, there’s nothing better than a grantmaker you can count on for regular support. Your goal is to preserve and, if possible, strengthen your relationship with that funder. And like all organizations, Candid is affected by rising costs. What if you want to expand your services?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Avoiding fundraising mistakes requires a delicate balance of strategy, communication, and relationship-building. Keeping your database on spreadsheets While spreadsheets might seem like a simple and cost-effective way to manage donor information, they can quickly become unwieldy and inefficient as your organization grows.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. Still, many foundations shy away from working together, assuming it will require considerable time and a loss of independence. . Benefits of Funder Collaboration .

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. Here are a few: More Effective Decisions : It makes sense to involve the people impacted by philanthropic dollars in setting strategy and making grants! published by the Ford Foundation. Those at the top decide.

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sgEngage

MARCH 21, 2023

While there will always be a baseline of information needed to make sure your grant funds are stewarded well, the best place to start is with trust. Creating stronger relationships with your grantees is at the heart of trust-based philanthropy, and a key part of helping you make a bigger impact on the community you serve.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Today, knowledge work is coming into fashion in foundations and the nonprofit sector. But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. More people working in or with grantmaking organizations now have some term related to knowledge work in their titles or job descriptions.

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