Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. That approach to grant writing doesn’t work, by the way. You want to stretch, grow, and learn new skills.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Say you rely on one platform for your organization’s accounting work, another for grant management, and another for online fundraising. Strengthen your financial reporting efforts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Of the surveyed nonprofit employees, roles included responsibility for programs, fundraising, grants management, technology, HR/office, or marketing. Challenges remain, however: 87% of respondents agree that it’s important to take measures to ensure gender and racial diversity across all levels of the organization.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising & Grants. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Fundraising & Grants / #CPI2019 / @NorCalGrant.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

Still, with cases on the rise, mutations popping up, and a post-holiday wave, organizations across sectors are preparing for at least several more months of quarantines, safety measures, and virtual work environments. The work isn’t done yet, but as grants run out, they’re harder to renew in a changed economic climate.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Volunteer opportunities: Describe each volunteer role, including expected time commitment, required skills, and what the volunteer will be doing. Nobody wins when a volunteer ends up in a role that requires more time than they can commit or skills they do not have. Be clear on discipline measures and reasons for dismissal.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising & Grants. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Fundraising & Grants / #CPI2018 / @NorCalGrant.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your Board members should not be family members, but people who are interested in your cause and have an applicable skill, such as accounting, marketing, social work, or social media, that they are willing to bring to the table. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? Will your Board support this program?

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Check your organization’s website, recent RFPs, grant proposals, etc. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Fortunately, much of this information is likely to exist already. Choosing your team. Ready, set, goals!

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Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

It’s important for every nonprofit to have multiple revenue streams to build a healthy, sustainable organization, and a common source of funding for nonprofits is through grants. Grants aren’t always easy to get, but with a well-written proposal, you can blow your competition out of the water. What is a grant? Types of grants.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

What the organization was measuring had nothing to do with what any external stakeholders — from foundations to donors — actually wanted to know about the organization's work. Think beyond surveys: make qualitative measurement an everyday activity by listening to and engaging staff for feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission. For instance, let’s consider a total operating budget of $200,000.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

SMART Fundraising Goals SMART goals give you a structure to follow in setting your goals. M easurable: Specific criteria that measure your progress toward the goal. For example: “acquire 100 new donors this year” or “write 10 grant proposals before March.” M = Make sure your goals are easily measured. See the difference?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As your organization strengthens those relationships, you can create a network of partner companies that are willing to support your nonprofit with other initiatives like sponsorships, in-kind donations, matching gifts, and volunteer grants. Hone your storytelling skills. What is cause marketing? Create “win-win” promotions.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. and all over the world, that focus on essential topics like: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants / #IFC2016 / @TheResAlliance. Nonprofit Management.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it. " The second question is the more important of the two, and the more difficult to answer.

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 23, 2024

When nonprofits value the worth of their employees by creating competitive financial packages, recognizing that staff are choosing service work as a career, and prioritizing time to develop their skills and nurture their leadership, we can change how we have historically undervalued nonprofit employees, and everyone will benefit.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. If your institution cares about delivering on mission, measure indicators that reflect your core values.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Discover how-to details and strategies for fast, measurable digital marketing success. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. If your institution cares about delivering on mission, measure indicators that reflect your core values.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Most often, organizations develop technology plans when they’re in the market for new solutions, with the plan providing a structured approach to the research and purchasing process. Remember, it’s impossible to accurately gauge your successes without a concrete method for measuring them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

How do you measure success of a project like this in Second Life? You would measure it in the same way you measure the success of an exhibit or a museum. You could reorganize the museum, move things around, create new structures for content flow, in a way you can’t do in physical space. What’s the mission of the museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There is no better way to structure your thinking that the POST which stands for People, Objective, Strategy, and Tools. What metrics will you use to measure success? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. Click to download worksheet. And everyday until….

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. Facilitation: The Secret Sauce of Participatory Processes Especially when it comes to participatory decision-making, we believe that a skilled facilitator is essential. But these “soft skills” are not magic.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

Will charitable foundations shy away from making grants designed to advance racial justice and racial equity or efforts to fund community-based organizations led by people of color? How will this ruling affect nonprofits that provide grants or scholarships that aim to benefit historically disadvantaged individuals/communities?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

When we first got together to do The Meatrix , we actually had this idea to do a Gratitude Grant to our clients as a way of just saying thank you and also getting more known in the field, so we put out this call for grant applications and said, we'll give away a free flash movie. Jonah: Well, I forget now how when we did it.

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