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Grants for Business Owners: Purpose-Driven Business Models

GrantNews

Transitioning to a purpose-driven model can be costly, but grants can help cover the expenses of these eco-friendly upgrades. Verified business grant s are available for industries like agriculture, electronic manufacturing, mental wellness, green building initiatives, environmental services, and more. So why not explore grants today?

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American Red Cross Sued Claiming Haitian Relief Funds Misused

The NonProfit Times

Their hopes and struggles and agonies Get us grants and consulting fees. There’s a market for their pain, Votes and glory and money to gain. Let us celebrate the poor. Their ills, their sins, their faulty diction Flavor our songs and spice our fiction. Celebrate thugs and clowns, Give their ignorance all renown.

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How to Develop Your Nonprofit Operating Reserves

Blackbaud

A reserve can provide the flexibility necessary to pay for items that arent covered by restricted grants. Consult your auditor and CPA to identify the options that work best for your organization. This post was originally published October 2016 and updated January 2025.

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Grant Professionals as Advocates

Grant Professionals Association

A recent State of the Sector webinar on Advocacy in Nonprofit Organizations in my community led to reflection on how opportunities to be an advocate present themselves in my career as a grant professional. I came away with a fresh perspective on how grant professionals advocate for the causes, populations, and organizations they serve daily.

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GRANTEGY: Don’t Leave Your Grants to Chance Series

Grant Consulting Services

Part II: Grant Optimization After the feasibility study, the next step is creating a workplan to identify any gaps. We call this step Grant Optimization. Using these findings will help you determine the next best steps to create a grant optimization strategy. What Is Grant Optimization?

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Recap: #CMF2016 Was Awesome!

Selfish Giving

The 2016 Cause Marketing Forum Conference was held in Chicago last week. You can see a full listing of 2016 Halo Award winners here. As usual, it was excellent and full of learning, inspiration and friendship. Congrats to David Hessekiel , Megan Strand and the whole CMF team for an outstanding event. I'm definitely recharged!

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Grant Writing: 3 Tips for Crafting Need Statements in Federal Grant Proposals

Grants.gov

In this space, we have previously shared tips about the pre-writing phase of completing a federal grant application – for example, the importance of reading (and re-reading) the grant announcement, and the importance of understanding the criteria by which your application will be evaluated. These tips are adapted from the U.S.