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Navigating the nonprofit RFP process

EveryAction

She asked for some advice around her (bumpy) request for proposals (RFP) process at her nonprofit. Her board had approved the budget for a new CRM and asked her to follow this process to find the right software. I thought we’d be done with the selection process in a month, but it’s month four with no end in sight.

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5 Essential RFP Writing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Request for Proposals (RFPs) are a critical tool for nonprofits seeking services from vendors or consultants. Pulling from experience with thousands of RFPs, Prosal shares five best practices to enhance your RFP writing process. 1) Start with Research Before an RFP The RFP really should be the second step in your process.

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5 Steps to Prepare for a Successful Nonprofit Website Redesign

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Additionally, you might face the prospect of rallying stakeholders and staff towards a common vision, goal, and outcome. Below is a list of processes and procedures you can take to prepare yourself and your organization to start your website build or redesign on a solid footing. Well-defined technical and design scope and constraints.

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Preparing for the Selection Process

Bloomerang

Define your project and the project goals. By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success. These will likely include: Goals – The S.M.A.R.T. Why is this goal important? How will we reach this goal?

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8 Actionable steps for any nonprofit RFP

EveryAction

An RFP, or a request for proposals, is a process disguised as a document. Whether it’s finding the right candidates, having to wrangle their department to “get on board” with the details, or just spending so much time running the entire process, everyone agreed: RFPs can be a pain. Outline your ideal process.

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Open for comment: Proposed changes to Candid’s taxonomy

Candid

Every year, Candid processes data on nearly two million organizations and more than three million grants. Based largely on input we’ve received from individual organizations and partners, we’re proposing 205 changes to the PCS. Starting today and through August 5, 2023, we are making the proposed changes available for public comment.

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Four common grant proposal documents (free samples included)

Candid

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.