Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Along the way, nonprofits need a service that offers a low barrier to entry, prioritizes user experience, and provides exceptional video and sound quality. Threaded conversations, document management, and simple UI, make it easy for teams to collaborate on a grant proposal, communicate constituent needs, and even organize a lunch meet up. #5

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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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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on where to look for grant opportunities for new nonprofits: Dear Charity Clairity, I am a new nonprofit and want to pursue a grant(s) to fund our mission. Any advice on where to look for grants that fit our mission or other funding sources? Sounds great!

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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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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The editors also decided that guacamole with blue cheese in it sounds disgusting, but we’d try it. Nonprofit Grant Proposal Budget Calculations: A Road Map Whats the best way to make your nonprofits budget stand out on a grant application?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Offer to write letters of intent or grant requests for the organization and possibly even submit them to foundations or companies. Help the organization by researching and compiling information on government grants that may be available.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 31, 2017

Grant writing is a great way to secure funding for your organization and has a multifaceted pathway to success. Finding the grants is half the battle, writing the grants is a whole other animal, and we’re not even going to start on reporting after the grant is awarded. Did we leave something out? What it Costs.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2022

What is a proposal project budget? . Proposal project budgets are the budgets you submit to a funder as part of a grant application. Many funders say that the proposal project budget is the first part of the application they look at so they’re a great way to make your case for funding. . How should I get started? .

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Candid’s training offerings provide detailed instruction to help you build skills in fundraising, grant writing, nonprofit management, and more, and they are designed to serve different levels of expertise. Some of our most highly attended classes include: Introduction to Finding Grants. Introduction to Proposal Writing.

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

"Getting actionable financial data for grant writing all comes down to the setup of your financial systems." You know that you need to finish this grant request, but you’re stuck. The narrative is coming along, but your roadblock is the financial justification for the grant. Does it sound like we know our stuff?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Landing a grant can be so exciting—those big gifts hold so much potential! But most grants come with some strings attached; funders want to know that you’re using that money to fund the programs or objectives you mentioned in your grant proposal. That’s where grant accounting comes in. What Is Grant Accounting?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

However, nonprofit accounting is often more complicated than it sounds. While this solution works temporarily, spreadsheets arent equipped to handle complex recordkeeping needs that will likely become more prevalent as your organization grows, such as payables, receivables, and grant management.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. On-demand trainings can be taken any time, with recent topics including fostering an inclusive culture , finding funding , and writing grant proposal budgets. Grants to Individuals .

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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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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. As they wait, organizations, ideas, and potential progress suffer, and the riskier and newer a proposal feels, the more it is placed in the wait-and-see category.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 14, 2022

annual appeal, grant proposal, special event, etc.) It sounds like you may not be quite ready for a big fundraiser. These have to do with your (1) Institutional Readiness; (2) Human Resources; (3) Markets; (4) Management; (5) Dynamic Functions, and (6) Fundraising Vehicles. As you see, you only get to the vehicles (e.g.,

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Is it statistically sound? This is a good start, but to be usable in a grant proposal, it needs to cite sources. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? What you get out: Always validate content generated by AI at every level. Is it accurate?

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2022

The buds are the sixth iteration of the company’s smart hearing aids and feature nifty new tech that automatically adjusts sound levels on the go. Hearing aids work by converting sound picked up by a microphone into a digital signal that’s then amplified. But the big update this year is a new feature Eargo dubs Sound Adjust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

One core belief has driven the Organizational Effectiveness program for nearly 30 years: Organizations are more effective at meeting their goals when they have thoughtful strategy, strong leadership, and sound management. Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Who’s the community? Libraries & Community.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We don’t build a network of entrepreneurs, but rather function as a sounding board with social sector leaders on how technology could better help their organizations or communities. The follow-on funding we have to raise comes from philanthropic donations or grants. We have a pipeline of ideas, not teams.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

There are a few core attributes of communities that I think contribute to the ability to identify opportunities, propose solutions, and effectively make change in a very different way than organizations, including: Communities are flexible. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

Sounds familiar, right? Include technology needs in grant proposals. These items should be part of every one of your proposals. Include technology needs in grant proposals. These items should be part of every one of your proposals. We all have ongoing technology expenses. Buy discounted technology.

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NTEN

APRIL 7, 2011

As long as the grantmaker keeps these quizzes fairly general, and they don't get too specific with their questions, I think this is going to be a wonderful new way for grantseekers to pre-screen their own organization before going through the process of writing a letter of inquiry, or even a full proposal. and throughout the world.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Founded by former executives from Microsoft and Google, Zunum proposed building several models of hybrid aircraft, one with a 700-mile range by 2022, and another with a 1,000-mile range by 2030. million into the company in Series A funding, according to a Zunum fundraising pitch obtained by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Grant Proposal And that’s not all. ChatGPT can also help with the time-consuming grant writing process. Having a human voice ensures content that doesn’t sound cold, clinical, or insensitive. For more specificity, simply provide ChatGPT with more relevant details. Chat GPT can help with that too!

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

They generally have several core functions that work well: collecting, reviewing, and revising ideas and proposals; voting on proposals; and reporting outcomes. At FundAction , a European community of activists has used one such platform to make decisions about funding priorities and grants.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work - both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made. Revisit your Story. What's your organization's story? You have one.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2018

I'm cranking away on a grant proposal, when suddenly, a classical rendition of "All the Single Ladies" wafts up the stairs. It's late in the afternoon. In the office, colleagues lift their heads. "Is someone asks. Yup," another nods. This is the magic a piano in the lobby makes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Communications Director and Content Strategist Highway Twenty A Request for Proposal (RFP) is a common way nonprofit organizations invite bids for products and services. If you do issue an RFP, you should not assume all proposals you get back will be similar in scope, so that all you have to do is compare price tags. Like this article?

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Strategic Planning: When it’s time to do strategic planning, you want board members to have respect for you, listen to your ideas, and take your proposals seriously. You use the same subject line on every one, like: “Insider Newsletter,” “Top of the news from the Teen Action Program,” or “Sound bite from the Teen Action Program.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

To me, these sound like the questions that all good evaluation starts with. As a lifelong believer in the power of story — and other creative work – to advance social change, these days I’m spending a lot of time trying to prove it. But if you ask a filmmaker, “How do you know if your film is making a difference?” Who are we trying to reach?

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

Sure, “hot-tubbing” sounds fun, but in a court context, it’s just a judge encouraging lawyers to argue — which is how Epic v. And Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers pointed out that it was possible Epic’s proposed remedy — allowing other app stores onto the iPhone and allowing side-loading of apps — destroyed consumer choice.

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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. It sounds obvious, but it’s a real limitation. “Oh, we’re not running on grants! “Many people think that documents are like cats. This isn’t our business.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

These might sound obvious, but when you think about how they relate to bad participatory processes, it becomes apparent where things can break down. Grant application feedback. You spend hours agonizing over the language for a grant application. Exhibition proposals. The process is unequal.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For this reason, having great impact management tools and a sound impact management strategy is an essential part of the nonprofit sector’s accountability and effectiveness. For example, when a new grant is received, both teams can have a shared source of data around when and what needs to be reported back to the funder.

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Achieve

JUNE 7, 2021

But even then, training in fundraising could be effective and based on sound principles. If we’re just talking about methods, there’s major gifts, bequests and trusts, corporate relations, grant proposals, direct mail, social media, virtual and in-person events. The Science of Giving. were published in 2015. Even more so.

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