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GivingUSA 2024 | What Small Nonprofits Need to Know

Pamela Grow

in 2023, down from 73% in 2013. Make it a practice to routinely scope out new sources of foundation funding. Develop a system where you’re sending out proposals or letters of inquiry to new foundations on a weekly basis. Individual donations dropped by 2.4%, with their share of total giving slightly decreasing from 67.4%

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Association of American Medical Colleges

RBW Strategy

Beginning in 2013, the AAMC first contracted with RBW Strategy to provide supplemental grant writing support during an especially busy time to increase staff capacity. The grants office consists of just two staff members. This includes contributions on larger federal grant applications that were awarded.

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Do Reviewers’ High Scores Predict the Best Grant Projects?

ProposalPRO

If you’re won a federal grant, you know you owe your good fortune to the independent grant reviewers who highly rated your proposal. 2014, Berg, 2013). 2014, Berg, 2013). Perhaps most concerning, Johnson (2008) found that reviewer bias affected as much as a quarter of funding decisions. 2016, Danthi et al.,

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Want Changes to Federal Grants? How to Make Your Voice Heard

ProposalPRO

Ever read through a federal Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) and exclaim, “What are these people thinking?” In the grants space, federal law requires that the public be made aware of proposed (i.e., You’ll be able to read the proposed rule as well as others’ comments, which also are publicly shared. What is Public Comment?

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

Here is just one example using common AI applications such as ChatGPT and Bard that shows the range of capabilities these tools offer as well as what to watch out for. Generating content : Suppose you’re writing a grant proposal for an arts organization and want to explain why the arts are essential for youth development.

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Working Toward Internet Access for Everyone

Tech Soup

The big recent digital inclusion news is the Federal Communication Commission's ( FCC ) proposal to extend the Lifeline Program , which has supplied discounted phone service to low-income people since 1985. If this proposal is enacted, it will, at a stroke, do more to close the U.S. Expansion of the FCC's Lifeline Service.

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What Is the Current State of Grantseeking? Community Development

Tech Soup

In a recent survey of nonprofit organizations in the United States, we learned more about where these types of nonprofits get their funding and where they find challenges to meeting the needs of their communities. CICB-focused organizations also listed local (33%), state (40%), and federal government (35%) grants as funding sources.