Candid

MAY 9, 2022

ABFE held their annual conference “Harambee: Let’s All Pull Together” recently with a mix of in-person and hybrid sessions. We each had many reflections from the conference. These are six key takeaways: . Racial equity is having a moment in philanthropy, but it needs to be a movement.

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Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Over the past few years, however, this practice of ceding decision-making power about grants to communities has been gaining wider traction. Set up in March 2020, the Participatory Grantmaking Community developed as a place to share resources, challenges, and cheerlead the practice. The vast majority support human rights. .

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I took the helm as President of the Grant Professionals Association on January 1, 2020. Our annual conference was selling out often. But you already know the ending to this timeline – March 13, 2020, hit, and the world stopped in my corner of the country thanks to COVID-19. And isn’t that what grant professionals do?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If he was on television today, he’d be telling us, “In 2020, the world changed.” Just about every nonprofit made major changes in 2020. On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. Remember Captain Obvious? No kidding! Not so fast.

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Sharpshooter Communications

MARCH 12, 2021

We made it through the dumpster fire that was 2020, and we’ve kicked off 2021 with a renewed excitement for our work. From health and human services to arts and communication, writing grants for these clients gives us a deeper understanding of the services they provide, along with the circumstances that created these needs in the first place.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 13, 2022

In September 2020 I penned an article entitled Battling Burnout as a Grant Professional where I shared several resources to help overcome the struggle. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 5 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such.

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Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

Last month, over 1,300 grants professionals gathered virtually for PEAK2021. LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, underscored a major theme during the opening keynote that carried through the rest of the conference: together. We also need funders to share their grants data directly with us through e-reporting.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

In March 2020, Candid canceled all in-person events until a time to be named later. In this article from our 2020 annual report , Candid employees share how these changes affected them and the stakeholders they serve. Later in the month, we closed all of our offices and began working 100 percent remotely.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

nonprofits (79 percent) plan to prioritize talent acquisition in 2022, up from 59 percent in 2020, a report from human resources firm Nonprofit HR finds. PCORI announces medical research grants totaling $49.5 The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has announced grants totaling $49.5 Grants totaling $23.5

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

In fact, we’re going to begin with tips for working remotely, because if you can’t collaborate online, you won’t be able to prepare a grant application or launch a successful fundraising or crowdfunding campaign. Screenshot from loom.com website, march 2020. Raising Funds Can grant money help in this time of crisis?

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Think and Ink Grants

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I had the esteemed pleasure of presenting at the Grant Professionals Conference (www.[link] That's why when it comes to our clients at Think and Ink Grants - we do the tough work of completing a logic model. :) In the last newsletter, we talked about the holy grail of grant writing: how to write goals, outcomes, and outputs.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Amid the racial reckoning of 2020 and the inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Based on Candid data processed as of October 2023, approximately 78,133 grants valued at $16.8 billion have been awarded to advance racial equity since 2020. billion have been awarded to advance racial equity since 2020.

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HSF House

AUGUST 19, 2024

Ford Undergraduate Research Awardee Amidst the vast social unrest and economic uncertainty in the year 2020, residents in my hometown of Pasco County, Florida, were faced with anxiety beyond the rampant global pandemic and the inequality it heightened. Ella Windlan, Editing, Writing, and Media major, David B.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

CauseVox’s Year-End Fundraising Fair was a mini-conference featuring 16+curated sessions with a big impact on year-end fundraising. Drive More Traffic To Your Site Using The Google Ad Grant. Studies have shown that the last few weeks of the year are a time of heightened generosity and philanthropy. with the promo code 50OFFYEFF.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

The long and short of it is that the Digital Fundraising Summit is a virtual conference designed to help nonprofit marketers and fundraisers thrive in today’s digital-first world. It’s Free: You can register for free to attend the 2-day conference! It’s easy to look back at 2020 and think that it was a fluke of a year.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . Yea us we got the $150,000 HUD grant! . Martin and Jasmine were coming up significantly short when we met them in July of 2020. . New business partnerships.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

In 2020, individual donations totaled $324 billion – whereas corporate giving was only 4% of this total. Volunteers or volunteer grants: when companies encourage their employees to volunteer with your organization, or even offer to paid days off in order to volunteer. So why should nonprofit spend time attracting corporate partners?

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

In 2020, galas and other fundraising events look a little bit different from the way they used to. Some options could be: Panel discussions with experts Breakout sessions or other educational sessions Virtual classes Webinars Virtual tours Virtual conference. Virtual Gala Fundraiser. Ok maybe quite a bit different.

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Peak Proposals

JANUARY 10, 2021

How do you reserve a conference room? For nonprofit organizations, another area where text is frequently recycled is in grant proposals. Similar to boilerplate text, nonprofits often archive copies of past grant proposals that were successfully funded, harvesting sections as needed for use in new proposals.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

In a recent Forbes article , corporate partnerships expert, Maureen Carlson, highlighted a trend to watch for in 2020, in which companies are looking to more clearly define their social and environmental commitment. Here a few of the most common specially negotiated terms, and key considerations for each. Donation Use Restrictions.

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Candid

APRIL 7, 2022

A 2020 Echoing Green study found that nonprofits led by Black women received less funding than those run by white women or Black men. Her work has led to more NDBN grant writing specifically to support Black-led organizations as well as a change in the intentional allocation of resources.”

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Candid

MARCH 5, 2025

A 2020 Candid analysis suggests that about half of nonprofits have less than six months worth of cash reserves. Social capital is also often a factor in securing invitations to submit grant proposals or work on initiatives. After all, it takes money to hire staff and to create and maintain programs and services.

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Tom Ahern

AUGUST 7, 2023

Location, location, location: although Katonah Village has a census-verified (2020) population of just 1,603 (including Martha Stewart and a long list of other famous names), the hamlet is a mere 41 miles from Manhattan (there's a train). She's the library's development manager (i.e., fundraiser) and now its newsletter editor. Case closed.

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