Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Candid has a wealth of data and insights on decades worth of foundation grants. Every day, nonprofit fundraisers use our in-depth data to identify prospective funders to approach and requests for proposals (RFPs) to apply for.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Many receive a combination of both. has a different meaning?

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Candid

JUNE 10, 2024

The significant role foundations play in advancing the social good underscores the need to incorporate equitable and inclusive grant application and review practices. Perhaps one of the most effective ways to ensure a fair grant application and review process is to share constructive feedback with applicants whose submissions get declined.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? Purpose of the grant (e.g.,

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Often, the reason a foundation declines a grant has nothing to do with you. Funders seek a return on investment With so many applicants and limited funding to go around, foundations view a grant as an investment. A proposal focused on program impact includes: Need: What need does your program serve?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Wright proposed building the rainwater system, and created the first simple prototype. ” The work, to date, has been primarily funded through donations; Apple gave the organization a grant to build the systems at 131 schools in northern Vietnam, for example. Children often got sick from drinking the water.

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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. Let’s dig in!

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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. Let’s dig in!

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Grant Nonprofit Guide Proposal 78

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Gallucci and Roy jointly announced a partnership of philanthropic organizations investing more than $15 million in grants to 23 projects as well as an additional $13 million available in the coming year for innovative projects that will increase the participation, quality, and relevance of secondary education.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

There’s a long list of functionalities, but some of the highlights for nonprofits include: Grant Proposals and Reports : Copilot can assist in drafting grant proposals, reports, and other documents, ensuring they are well-written and formatted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Contracts and briefs in legal work, leases and agreements in real estate, proposals and releases in marketing, medical charts, etc, etc. At the core of XML was the idea that a document should be structured almost like a webpage: boxes within boxes, each clearly defined by metadata — a hierarchical model more easily understood by computers.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

In my more than 20 years as a philanthropy grants manager, nonprofit executive, and consultant, Ive seen how technology decisions can either amplify equity or entrench existing barriers. In the nonprofit space, large language models like ChatGPT can support overworked staff that operate with limited resources.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

An inclusive approach that values diverse perspectives, provides equitable access to AI tools and training, and considers the unique needs of different user groups can also help that organization address challenges such as reducing bias in service delivery models. Where can fundraisers and grant writers read more about using AI technology?

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Tips Technology Adopt Grant 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? Purpose of the grant (e.g.,

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Grant Homeless Foundation Proposal 72

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The pump and pipeline project to Georgetown, developed by California-based Upwell Water, is the largest of at least a half dozen similar projects recently completed, under construction or proposed to bring rural Carrizo Wilcox aquifer water into the booming urban corridor that follows Interstate 35 through Central Texas.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The Data Deluge in Grantmaking: Drowning in Information Remember the days when grantmaking relied on paper proposals and handwritten reports? Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

For many, that involves a combination of income sources that, together, make up their funding model. A funding model is defined as the methodical and institutionalized approach to bring in revenue to support an organization’s core programs and initiatives. Government Grants. Federated Funds.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

Carolyn Owens , Grant Writer & Partner. This is part two of Carolyn Owen''s series on gathering and using data for grant proposals. Data is a vital part of your grant application. So how do you intertwine data in the proposal so that it supports and amplifies your cause rather than obfuscate it? 501 Navigation.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ).

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2025

Included in the recommendations is an explanation of why it suggests a funder, with space for the nonprofit to provide feedback on whether they are a good fit so we can continue improving our model. AI writer: Candids new AI writer uses content from an organization’s Candid profile to generate a first-class letter of intent (LOI).

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

Proposals must identify a problem and offer a solution that promises significant and durable change. Some problems cannot be solved by grants of the size that foundations typically provide. Applications will be accepted online only , from May 22 to August 15, 2024. Complete applications are due before 5 p.m. times the original plan.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

In fact, over the past five years, MMT distributed an average $28 million per year in grants and program-related investment loans, surpassing $500 million with its most recent awards. Stamm noted that the million dollar idea challenge supplements MMT’s existing grant programs and initiatives, rather than supplanting any ongoing funding.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

Indeed, the report has always played a role in the Simple Development Systems’ Ask+Thank+Report+Repeat model, which skews toward building your strong base of individual giving (AKA general operating support). Taking precedence — for instance — over grants or business support. But what’s missing in GivingUSA is YOU.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

But, many of the others were eager to think through the challenges of adapting this model to their organization, and how it might work well. I used the example of Kristen Cibelli, one of our field human rights workers, who got a mini-grant to go to meet with grassroots human rights groups in Liberia.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

By making use of the Google Ad Grant , your organization will appear at the very top of the Google results page when a user searches a keyword related to your mission. Create a request for proposal (RFP). Consultants use these documents to build out proposals that demonstrate how they would approach helping your team.

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The Verge

MAY 2, 2021

There is a proposal currently under Gaming Leadership Team consideration to adopt 88 / 12 as a public PC games revenue share for all games in exchange for the grant of streaming rights to Microsoft,” reveals the document. We asked Microsoft whether this proposal went ahead, but the company refused to comment in time for publication.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Some of these tools include: OpenAI for Nonprofits: ChatGPT can help draft grant proposals, refine data analysis, or tailor communication strategies for diverse audiences. This increases the chances of securing funding from foundations and other grant-making organizations.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

My PhD research focuses on meta-learning and the full model selection problem. To me, this probably means, the decision rules for grant applications were somehow changed during 2007 and 2008. Repeat Step 2 for a fixed number of iterations or until all the models have been used. X=1 to 5) to nominal Person.ID.X (X=1

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Neon CRM

APRIL 10, 2025

If your nonprofit relies on grants, you know how hard it can be to keep all the different phases of the grant management process on track at once. Thats why finding the right grant management software solution is such a crucial step for nonprofits looking to build a sustainable grant strategy. Lets get started!

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

In the study in question, titled “A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using Image Processing,” researchers claimed to have created a facial recognition system that was “capable of predicting whether someone is likely going to be a criminal. Image: Xiaolin Wu and Xi Zhang, “Automated Inference on Criminality Using Face Images”.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? From grants to venturing. Fundraise, grant, spend – it’s not efficient. Finally, a lot of new ideas, the newness is the business model. Building an audience around the 6 ideas for the weekend.

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