Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I've spent my whole adult career working for nonprofits that I believe do pretty darn good jobs of serving the needs of their communities, providing valuable services, advocating and educating on behalf of important policy decisions, and do all around good work for the world. TechSoup is high on that list from my vantage point.

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Nonprofit Policy Policies Software 43

Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 1, 2023

Grant applications often ask for racial demographics of board, staff, and clients as well as LGBTQ+, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disabilities, age, etc. 2 It may be helpful to point this out in your grant applications. But racial representation seems to be a focus. It can feel invasive or even irrelevant.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

JULY 17, 2023

While the post focuses on aging and academia, it has implications for grant seekers and grant writers: most federal grants for the delivery of services to the elderly come are derived from the 1965 Older Americans Act administrated by the DHHS Administration for Community Living (“ACL”).

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Readiness Policy Policies Education 40

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. Full disclosure, she also manages Simplify , a new partnership between TAG and GuideStar, which is a new approach to applying for grants. John Merritt. Lucy Bernholz.

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Nonprofit Media Award Publishing 89

Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. While the timeline of a grant – from the initial call for proposals or opportunity listing to actually receiving the funding – can take months, it still goes faster than academic projects.

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Ethics Publishing Grant Writing Contract 98

Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. And we need advocacy for new levels of excellence and for policies that support our work. million in grants annually.

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Nonprofit Finance Policy Policies 39

Planned Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Policies shift, tax laws change, and rhetoric gets loud. This further proves that reliance on policy-driven benefits is risky. Relying too heavily on one revenue streamwhether government grants, corporate giving, or annual fundraisingleaves organizations vulnerable. But lets get one thing straight: Its not. Build stability.

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Fundraising Government Policy Policies 93