Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Organizations are always making miracles happen on tight budgets. Above all, planning for financial sustainability comes down to Budgeting and Expenses: First, sit down with your accountant. These funds are often depleted quickly, so act immediately when opportunities are announced. Funding For Good, Inc.

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The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 11, 2020

In my time as a nonprofit fundraiser, we've seen recessions related to the dot-com bust, the 9/11 attacks, and the housing market implosion around 2008 and 2009. And they raise the funds to change the world. Cutting fundraising and marketing budgets. And that work needs funding. Recessions and rumors of recessions.

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Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The article ’15 learnings we’re sharing from 15 years of working with grant-seekers and fund ers’ by the Strategic Grants team first appeared in the Winter 2024 edition of the F&P (Fundraising & Philanthropy) magazine. It is the quality and most definitely NOT the quantity of applications.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 18, 2024

Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? As grant writers, we’re sometimes in a position of responding to requests from well-intentioned leadership or program staff to “look at this grant opportunity” or asking, “can you help us find funding for this project?” Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 13, 2010

Does any nonprofit ask its CFO to “cut the budget by an amount greater than his or her salary,” or tell program directors that they need to “bring in program fees equal to or more than their salary?” Linda is one of fewer than 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle. Here is just a sample of representative comments from survey respondents: We completely cut one program and seven staff positions and have placed another program on hold pending additional funding.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

These people make up in creativity what they lack in institutional funding. In this talk , Warner explains how the program made it possible for a worldwide network of NGOs and activists to work together to monitor Afghanistan's 2009 election. Technology in particular is an area in which it's sometimes hard to see past the price tag.

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