The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 2, 2024

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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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 28, 2024

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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

utilize data to build cutting-edge grant requests. identify current trends that can assist you in your 2016 and 2017 planning. If you aren't using real-world benchmarks in your grant applications, your organization will have a more difficult time positioning itself among other similar organizations. Image: GrantStation.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 29, 2024

Key types of non-cash gifts that should be on nonprofits’ radar include: Grants from donor-advised funds (DAFs). Nonprofits also received 32% more DAF grants and 56% more grant dollars in 2022 than in 2021. Patrick Schmitt and fellow co-CEO Jenny Xia founded FreeWill at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2016.

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Grant Professionals Association

AUGUST 13, 2024

This is why fundraisers like grant professionals exist. Being a grant professional teaches you just how crucial it is to get buy-in from program staff at all stages of the grant life cycle. Being a grant professional teaches you just how crucial it is to get buy-in from program staff at all stages of the grant life cycle.

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Grant Consulting Services

APRIL 25, 2024

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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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

Talk to anyone associated with a nonprofit organization, and they will tell you that there isn't enough grant money. Be aware that grant funding is available. Ninety-one percent of our respondents who submitted three to five grant applications received at least one award. percent in 2017 and by 6.0 percent in 2018.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 11, 2024

In fact, we think this is such a crucial part of grant funding that we identify over 6,000 grants in our grant listing directory in a special Grants for Nonprofits tab at the top of its webpage! From 2007-2016, nonprofit employment grew by 16.7% One of every 10 employees works for a nonprofit organization.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

According to Points of Lights report, of the $1 trillion in grant dollars awarded by foundations from 2016 to 2025, only 0.19% was allocated to volunteer engagement. Among the top 10 largest (by total giving) institutional foundations, just 0.07% of their grant portfolios were allocated to support volunteer engagement.

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Grants.gov

MARCH 27, 2019

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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2016

The new edition of the Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems is a 300-plus page downloadable report that provides detailed comparisons of 29 grants management systems. So what is new in grants management systems? So what is new in grants management systems? Quite a lot, it turns out. " How the Report Works.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In honor of Labor Day, this blog—the first in a two-part series—offers insights into the various roles that unions play within the social sector, based on data from available recent tax filings (2016 and on). . Unions award grants. According to the latest Candid data, unions paid out $252 million in grants. $

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Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Young/junior/early career investigators attending one of our Write Winning Grant Proposals seminars frequently ask whether teaming up with senior/established investigators on a grant application will increase their chances of meriting an independent grant award. PhD, PharmD, DSci, EdD, etc.)

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2016

These were the top 10 TechSoup tech topics of 2016 (say that 10 times fast). By flagging your transactions in QuickBooks with these handy utilities, you can quickly pull related data into relevant reports by a particular grant or program. Microsoft Office 2016. Microsoft Office 2016 — What Is New and Different?

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

It's that establishing realistic objectives for your grants program is always a bit of a guessing game. Most organizational leaders ask themselves these questions when projecting grant support: Who is most likely to fund my organization? What is a reasonable level of grant support to expect for my organization?

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 6, 2016

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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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MARCH 17, 2023

Federal grants could still be attractive in the low-interest-rate 2010s environment —the linked post is from 2016—since those grants were non-dilutive and could fund some projects much earlier than VCs typically would. As is so often the case, the law does the opposite of its name.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 15, 2021

He has worked in capital campaigns, major and planned giving (including charitable gift annuities) grant writing and donor research. In 2016, he received the CFRE designation. But aren’t mid-level donors who we take for granted the most? Strawhecker, Inc. Shouldn’t we spend more time getting to know who they are?

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 25, 2023

But long before this impact occurs, when the grant is still just an idea, the grant writer is trying to wrangle three or four other non-profits to all work together on this “collaborative project.” Has there been a grant or two that we ended up passing on because the group could not agree on splitting the funding?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 14, 2022

As I’m in the business of teaching grant writing online and I want my students to have incredible success , I think a lot about how to learn as a nonprofit professional. Since I started in 2016, I’ve had the opportunity to teach thousands of nonprofit leaders. Not all the grant writing advice on the Internet is good.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Using a you@YourOrganization.org email address will make you look more professional and established, which will help when you apply for grants or recruit volunteers. January 2016. Our free Office 365 workshops are designed to help nonprofits that want to use their domain name for their email service. December 2015. What Is Office 365?

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

One big improvement in the works is to engage foundations, which will be able to set up matching grant projects. For instance, a foundation would give a $20,000 grant to a cause or group of organizations and make the payment after the matching amount is achieved.

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Grant Consulting Services

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These are answers funders look for when they read your grant application. The ability to demonstrate program success is crucial when applying for grant funding, so how do you make the assessment? Retrieved from [link] The Bridgespan Group (2016, January 15). Is your nonprofit organization making a difference? If so, how?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Microsoft Office 2016 (for PC or Mac). The process for clearing an NGO to receive a grant is much faster and much less expensive than it used to be — starting at $250 per equivalency determination. These are foundations' current favorites: Microsoft Windows 10. Symantec Norton Small Business Security Suite.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 23, 2024

Walker has received 16 honorary degrees and university awards and was listed among TIME ’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2016 and Rolling Stone ’s “25 People Shaping the Future” in 2017, WSJ Philanthropy Innovator of the Year in 2020, and Inside Philanthropy’ s Philanthropy Leader of the Year in 2023.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

She argues, "Creating an email address, learning how to search for something online, learning how to talk on Skype, building a résumé on Microsoft Word — these are things that we think are very simple, and we take for granted, but you learn them automatically when you have access to the Internet. million today to 7.6

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Qgiv

MAY 24, 2023

Donations to places of worship are decreasing Places of worship saw a decrease in donations from 2016 to 2022, meaning that Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials are giving less to places of worship. This number has steadily increased since 2016. Matching gift grants motivate more donations across all generations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

M+R surveyed organizations about their onboarding strategies for its 2016 Benchmarks Report and found that "Sixty-four percent of respondents send at least one dedicated welcome message to new subscribers. It's important to respect that permission you've been granted and also to take advantage of the opportunity.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 20, 2017

As of the fall of of 2016, the U. This can't be done by a major gifts officer or grant writer as it requires a sales and marketing mindset and experience creating win-win partnerships. and CMN Hospitals saw totals exceed projections for 2015 and stay strong into 2016. had nearly 621,000 restaurants.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

Kisumu, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kisumu. Kakamega, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kakamega. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Kampala, Uganda: Story Makers 2016. Brattleboro, Vermont: Storytelling for Grant Proposals with Barbara Ganley. Monday, April 4, 2016. Tuesday, April 5, 2016.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Monday, May 9, 2016. Tuesday, May 10, 2016. Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Thursday, May 12, 2016. Washington, DC: May NTEN Happy Hour: Google Grant + Google Analytics = Better Results, Nonprofit Grant for Free Advertising. Friday, May 13, 2016. Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Wednesday, May 18, 2016.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Our contest begins today, August 29, 2016, and closes September 11, 2016. We'll announce the winners the week of September 26, 2016. August 29, 2016. The 2016 TechSoup Symantec Success Story Challenge (the "Challenge"). Challenge submission opens August 29, 2016 at 8:00:01 a.m. Official Rules.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Rutzen also requested that the Global Magnitsky Act of 2016, which authorizes the U.S. A free country is never granted even by the greatest allies,” she said. “It and the EU all against the will of the majority of citizens.” Gigauri made it clear she was not asking for U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2016

Grants, grants, and more grants. Building a Powerful Grants Strategy for 2016 – 2017. will take participants through the process of establishing a grants calendar for the next 12 to 18 months. Get great at grants. On September 13, this free webinar (normally $69!) spanhidden.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Traditional grants from companies have played a major role in helping Operation Warm achieve its mission. However, after an uptick in company requests for sponsorship and cause marketing in 2016, Operation Warm created a dedicated team to focus on corporate partnerships. But we were very conscious of doing it right.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 8, 2024

Between 2000 and 2016 some 20 million households moved away from giving roles. Wales presented her thoughts at Donor Trust and Participation , a recent forum in New York City hosted by BBB Wise Giving Alliance and Charity Monitoring Worldwide. Wales backed her thesis with several disturbing pieces of data.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

We know that the greatest challenges to successful grantseeking (according to over 3,300 respondents to the 2016 State of Grantseeking Survey ) are: A lack of time and/or staff. Researching and finding mission-specific grants. Researching and Finding Mission-Specific Grants: Find Relevant Funders Quickly. Register now.

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