Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Figuring out how to fund your vision can feel like a steep mountain to climb. Should you fund your work out of your own pocket? Here’s something to keep in mind, starting now: self-funding a nonprofit is not sustainable. To fully fund your mission, you have to become a fundraiser. Where do you start? Just beware!

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is the secret to successful grant writing?” Know what they fund and what matters most to them and know who you are as a nonprofit and what your funding priorities are. That’s what I do to increase our grant approval rate.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Often, the first step in getting a grant is a Letter of Inquiry (sometimes called a Letter of Intent ) – or LOI, for short. If a funder likes your Letter of Inquiry, they’ll invite you to submit more details about what you would like them to fund. Grant writing doesn’t get any better than that!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Diversifying your funding is critical to your nonprofit’s stability and ability to achieve your mission. With the ups and downs of the past few years, many nonprofit organizations that were heavily dependent on just one or two funding sources found themselves in a tight spot. Major Gifts. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

What can we learn from last years largest gifts from individuals about the latest giving trends and what to expect in 2025? Candids Philanthropy News Digest and the Chronicle of Philanthropy covered 24 nine- and 10-figure gifts from U.S.-based But the total dollar amount of those mega gifts fell more sharply, to about $4.35

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 22, 2021

billion in grants, a 27% increase over the same six-month span of 2020. Fidelity Charitable, an independent public charity and the nation’s largest grantmaker, distributed those gifts to more than 123,000 charities. In the first half of 2021, donors have recommended a record $4.3

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Finance plays a crucial role in building a sustainable and scalable funding strategy. 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.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 31, 2025

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memorandum to all executive departments and agencies requiring that Federal agencies identify and review Federal financial assistance programs and temporarily pause funding for these programs. As fundraisers (be it individual fundraisers, grant writers, event planners, annual giving, etc.),

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Candid

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In the wake of last weeks news regarding the Office of Management and Budget memorandum instructing federal agencies to temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, many of us are trying to understand the potential impact of a freeze on federal funding on the nonprofit sector.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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. If you are using fund accounting software built for nonprofits, these reports will be native in your system.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its hard to choose to put funds into operating reserves when that could help one more person transition out of homelessness. These may include delays in grant approvals, rescheduling of major events due to unforeseen circumstances, or sudden increases in demand for disaster relief services.

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

You’ve been grant shopping for some time now, but are you prepared for what’s next once you start to receive them? Many grants come with significant—and detailed—compliance requirements. If you are a grant-funded organization, it will be important to manage spending restrictions and meet reporting requirements.

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Bloomerang

JULY 26, 2022

How can your nonprofit access those funds? Although the Twitter thread doesn’t dive into how the foundation will spend the money, we have a few recommendations for staying on top of that news: Keep an eye on their grants page. If you head to the foundation’s website, you’ll see their grants page.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. It is a Series B funding round with the latest infusion of $30 million in March 2022.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Those low-cost tools can be a great way to launch and gain momentum, but there comes a point for every nonprofit when the time it takes to manage your fund accounting workarounds outweighs the cost of upgrading your system. It may be time to look for a fund accounting system with subfund capabilities when you notice these three signs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They find great satisfaction and pride in funding growth and expansion. 1) Invite major donors to be an integral part of the work they’re funding. The specifics of what their money would be funding. Be as transparent as possible about the path your donor’s funds are taking from contribution to action to impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

By Steve Latham , CEO & Co-founder at DonateStock – a fundraising platform that makes stock gifting to nonprofits easy and accessible. Philanthropy is at an inflection point and fundraisers are looking opportunistically beyond cash and credit as their sole sources of funding. That’s a big piggy bank.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Many non-profit organizations rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to round out their fundraising efforts. If your non-profit is looking for new grant opportunities, here are six tried-and-true places to find them: #1 – Your Board I always start my grant research with my board.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to credit and acknowledge donor advised fund gifts in their donor database: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m unsure how to enter donor advised fund gifts in our database so they’re credited and acknowledged appropriately. T he IRS is serious about this.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 9, 2025

The real takeaway here is to be able to articulate why the operating reserve fund exists for your organization and clearly understand the purpose, rather than getting hung up on the aggregate number. The more dependable and regular your funding is, the less risk you have and the lower your reserves can be.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 23, 2023

MacKenzie Scott’s Yield Giving will provide 250 $1 million unrestricted operating gifts to small nonprofits. The application process is now open, with awardees expected to be announced early next year.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 1, 2024

Having a comprehensive strategy for soliciting donations from donor-advised funds is almost as important as breathing.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The LISC gift was not a solo. Coastal Enterprises in Brunswick, Maine received $25 million, the Nonprofit Finance Fund was awarded $22 million, and Craft3 in Seattle announced it received $15 million. The gifts come a few weeks after a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that showed she sold 61.66

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Instead of generating a profit that can be disbursed to shareholders or reinvested in the business, nonprofits funnel their revenue into things like research funding, program expenses, outreach, and work that directly impacts their mission. Others receive grant funding from governmental agencies, private foundations, and community funds.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2025

Submit three grant applications by March 31, targeting $100,000 in potential funding. Owner: Grant Writer. Launch a GivingTuesday campaign by November 15 and secure 150 individual gifts. Owner: Annual Fund Manager. Secure $50,000 in sponsorships for the annual gala by November 1. Owner: Development Team.

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Charity Village

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

, we were keen to explore how Canada’s philanthropic sector could do a better job of funding Indigenous-led organizations and communities.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Foundations: Relying on experienced, proven grant writers to research and write proposals. Government agencies: Using experts to review the federal grant register and target new grant opportunities. This brings the listener into a uniquely powerful frame: “We don’t seek gifts. Fundraising mistake #2.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Make a “ stretch gift ” that is very generous and is outside your normal giving pattern. Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.). Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Mary’s Pence funds women-led organizations and groups working for social change in the U.S., The first program is Mary’s Pence Grants , which funds women-led grassroots organizations in the U.S. Mary’s Pence is creative in funding ESPERA. Grantees are eligible for a mid-cycle capacity-building grant of up to $750.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 30, 2023

Trends have shown both annual and major donors pulled back their charitable gifts last year due to economic uncertainty. Despite that, giving from donor-advised funds (DAFs) remained strong last year. And so far this year — or fiscal year for some DAF grantors — that remains true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2021

One of the major barriers for the billions of people who lack safe water and sanitation is access to financing to fund the solutions they need to survive. Water.org’s monthly donors are a powerful driver of long-term change and scale because their sustaining gifts create sustainable solutions. Creating powerful solutions.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Digital campaigns eliminate expenses related to venues, printed materials, and travel, enabling nonprofits to allocate more funds directly to their cause. Matching gift platforms: Software that assists nonprofits in finding corporate matching gift opportunities to potentially double or triple donations.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While Scott is far from the first to focus on giving major gifts with no strings attached, the scale of her philanthropy is causing many funders to rethink long-held beliefs about what requirements should be paired with a donation. What Are Restricted Funds?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

A matching gift is a great opportunity to leverage a generous donation from one donor, or a group of donors, to bring in even more money from other donors for your nonprofit. Their support lets you tell other donors: A generous donor has offered to match every gift made toward the laptops dollar-for-dollar up to $3,000!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Much has been written about the extraordinary grant making of businesswomen, MacKenzie Scott. With a net worth of $65.3B, there are a lot of MacKenzie Scott funds available. . Here’s What We Know About How To Apply To Receive MacKenzie Scott Funds. A donor advised fund is NOT a private foundation, nor does it operate as such.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2025

Your revenue is overly dependent on a handful of major donors or a single government grant. Why Organizations Should Experiment with Revenue Diversity Even when your revenue channels are strong, nonprofits should always be experimenting with their funding models. You see the writing on the wall.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 2, 2024

7 Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team With a dedicated nonprofit fundraising team, you’ll execute more effective strategies, plan impactful events, and attain more funding for your mission. Grants Specialist Fundraising doesn’t just consist of revenue from donors—grants are another valuable revenue stream for nonprofits.

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