The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Successful grant professionals are masters of detail. They can burrow into 100 pages of single-spaced, fed-speak instructions and emerge prepared to translate hundreds of granular requirements into a competitive proposal narrative. In grants work, being detail oriented is an absolute requirement.

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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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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Our objective was to develop grants and programs as a group to strengthen our individual community media centers and support the movement as a whole. The goal of the day was to develop a collaborative grant proposal for a project that would be pertinent and beneficial to each CMC. We had our fundraising meeting on March 25.

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Candid

JULY 15, 2024

Early evidence suggests that many funders have stayed the course, especially in the areas of grant reporting requirements, funding restrictions, and proposal processes. However, there remain areas to monitor for additional progress. based funders whose grantees we surveyed before the pandemic and again in 2021 or 2022.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 30, 2024

Three ways your CFO can help your nonprofit apply for grants. Most nonprofits strive to include grant funding in their revenue streams but often find that large amounts of know-how (as well as a time commitment from the executive level down to the front line) are needed. Read on to find out more! will be handled in the application.

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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. And you’re right.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Grant research tip: When searching for grants, using geography is an effective way to target funders. Start small and work your way out. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

How is it structured? I mentioned a mini-grant program that my organization, Benetech, had for a while (and which I would love to have again if I had more innovation funding), where any staff member could propose to spend $25,000 or less on an exciting opportunity. How does it interact with your existing, core programs?

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

For example, one nonprofit could receive forty percent of their funding through donations from individuals, thirty percent from corporate sponsorships, and thirty percent through grants, while another organization could receive all their funding through a major donor program. Government Grants. Federated Funds.

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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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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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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. A responsive design adjusts the structure, content, and presentation of content in response to the users screen size (and many website builders take care of this for you).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. The state of grant seeking. Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. Showing Up with an Equity Lens.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. Through the principles they list on their website, they give multi-year, unrestricted funding with a low-barrier grant process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Old Clearinghouses rapidly became out of date, especially after the initial grant expired. Old Clearinghouses rapidly became out of date, especially after the initial grant expired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Monitor Group senior consultant Heather Grant McLeod made the fascinating point that many of these established organizations began life as networks but adopted centralized organizational structures to bend to their funders or funding model. The visual is vertical as is the work of a traditional organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. The art aspect refers to how well an inspired writer describes a project and the grant-seeking organization. Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

If machine learning is to bring about the “social good” touted in grant proposals and press releases, researchers in this space must actively reflect on the power structures (and the attendant oppressions) that make their work possible,” write the authors.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 11, 2015

Nonprofits are turning more and more toward grants as a source of funding for their causes, and that’s not a bad idea—if and only if you can devote the necessary time and energy into it. You’ll apply for the wrong type of grant or screw up the formatting or forget to include a necessary component. You’re going to mess something up.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. The Foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking system, and to expedite the timing, grants managers completed applications on behalf of island employees. “I

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

You hear so much about data these days that you might forget that a huge amount of the world runs on documents : a veritable menagerie of heterogeneous files and formats holding enormous value yet incompatible with the new era of clean, structured databases. But for Paoli the solution is the same. Image Credits: Docugami.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising. Grant writing is a skill, and it’s also a full time job.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. Maybe you want to run a campaign for awareness around one of your proposals and want to showcase teachers in the process. But, it doesn’t have to be that way! Start with Metrics.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Three ways your CFO can help your nonprofit apply for grants. Most nonprofits strive to include grant funding in their revenue streams but often find that large amounts of know-how (as well as a time commitment from the executive level down to the front line) are needed. Read on to find out more! will be handled in the application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Structure: How will they estimate, describe and test the operational structure? Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. He shared some the basics of what grantmakers should look for in a nonprofit business plan: 1. Market: Is there a need for this? Competitors?

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Required documents: To obtain grants, you need proof of your nonprofit status or fiscal sponsor. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Organized recordkeeping is key.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

and all over the world, that focus on essential topics like: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants / #IFC2016 / @TheResAlliance. Fundraising & Grants. Annual Conference of Grant Professionals. Annual Conference of Grant Professionals. Grant Professionals Association / Atlanta, GA / $840.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

This trend poses two important questions: Will people embrace and use it to make complicated processes (like writing grant proposals) easier? Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for a long time, but the use of recent technologies— like ChatGPT— is new and still being explored.

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. Maybe you want to run a campaign for awareness around one of your proposals and want to showcase teachers in the process. But, it doesn't have to be that way! Start with Metrics. You have one.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising & Grants. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Fundraising & Grants / #CPI2019 / @NorCalGrant. Jan 16 - 19.

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2022

Some grant funders might require your organization to conduct a financial audit as a requirement to accept the grant money. Sometimes, multiple grantors might require audits, so be sure your grant management processes are up-to-scratch. . This will help you better align with an auditor that meets your needs. . Write an RFP.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

September 23, 2021 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced grants totaling at least $300 million in support of thirty-three investigators who are tackling some of the most challenging problems in biomedical research. Hewlett awards $17 million in 'adaptation grants' to arts groups.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Michelle: Came from a college-level academic background but a side project in grant-writing was very satisfying. Sarah’s list of necessary skills for consultants: Product management. customer service. organizational. speaking and presentation. Need to meet client where they are in terms of skill level.

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sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

Despite its best intentions, traditional philanthropy has inhibited its grantee relationships by perpetuating structures and practices that treat grantees as supplicants rather than partners. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.

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