Blackbaud

MAY 27, 2024

It’s budget season, and the spreadsheet chaos has begun. You want to document your process to save yourself valuable time next budget season. You want to be able to easily report on budgets in a variety of accurate, clear ways without too much fuss, and know what was approved versus what’s been modified. What if it raises more?

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Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Your nonprofit’s donors lead busy lives—managing their careers, maintaining social relationships, and pursuing their personal goals. Set a goal and budget. Decide on a goal that’s specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART). Create your Giving Tuesday content. Promote your campaign.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 1, 2024

If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For your nonprofit to expand its reach, make a greater impact in the community, and achieve financial sustainability, your leaders need to set clear goals and plan effectively. The planning document that serves as the backbone for financial sustainability—and by extension, successful growth—is your nonprofit’s annual operating budget.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

JUNE 4, 2024

How to Set Realistic Goals for Your School Fundraiser Blog Summary: This blog offers a comprehensive guide for school administrators, teachers, PTA members, and community stakeholders on how to set achievable SMART goals for school fundraisers. Volunteers: The backbone of any school fundraiser is its volunteers.

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Blackbaud

JULY 24, 2024

Analyzing budgets. Your accountant will use your recorded financial data to review your nonprofit’s annual operating budget and suggest revisions before it goes to your board for final approval. They’ll also perform budget vs. actual comparisons throughout the year to help keep your organization’s spending and fundraising on track.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

The scope of your nonprofit’s rebrand will depend on your goals. We’ll go over important factors to consider when you rebrand your nonprofit throughout this blog. The scope of your nonprofit’s rebrand depends on your goals. Ask yourself: Do you have the budget and bandwidth to invest into this project?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Once you understand what’s required for a successful auction—one that meets or exceeds its revenue goal—you can confidently set your procurement goals and define your event budget. The First Step: Know Your Revenue Goal Auction planning begins with knowing your revenue goal.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In this blog, we will share the key elements of a typical project proposal and best practices for how to approach drafting each section to help you secure the grant you seek. A brief description of the project, including your goals and objectives. The post How to write a winning grant proposal appeared first on Candid Blog.

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Grant Training Center

AUGUST 21, 2023

Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. Strategic Thinking: Crafting grant proposals requires strategic thinking to align your organization’s goals with potential funders’ priorities. appeared first on Grant Training Center Blog.

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Qgiv

MAY 15, 2023

Not everyone can be a math genius, but when you’re using a fundraising event budget template, you don’t have to be. Hosting an event requires your organization to do a lot of research and planning, but using a budgeting template can ease some of the stress of your staff.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At a recent webinar hosted by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Jennifer Chheang of The California Endowment (TCE) and Allie VanHeast of the Kalamazoo Community Foundation (KCF) shared how they are using Demographics via Candid in practice to better understand alignment with institutional goals and measure their progress.

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In this blog, we’ll cover some of the best ways to bring in more donations to your auctions—practices that you can use over and over again, without having to reinvent the wheel. Cater to different budgets: Not all attendees may have the financial means to bid on high-end items.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top 10 School Fundraising Blog Posts of 2023 A review of the best-shared information to help your school raise funds in 2024. To help you get started, we’ve compiled a list of the top ten school fundraising blog posts of 2023 shared with you by Big Fundraising Ideas. View all ten and learn how to reach and exceed your goals.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 13, 2025

This alignment prevents mission creep and maintains the integrity of your nonprofit’s goals. Factor in all costs, including staff time, and forecast different scenariosbest case, worst case, and most likelyto understand the impact on your budget. The goal is long-term sustainability with minimal additional resources.

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Blackbaud

JULY 22, 2024

Revenue diversity is a good hedge against the unexpected, but diversity alone is not enough when your budget is threatened or dismantled by outside forces. Use budget scenarios to plan for possible outcomes and contingencies. But creating budget scenarios helps you prepare for both the good and the less optimal outcomes.

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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Next, you should have a solid budget in place. Budget: Create a list of expenses and put together a solid budget. Consider a budget template. Timeline: While your grant donor is enthusiastic about your goals, they also want to know how you plan to make use of their grant funds. This is important to grant success.

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

The goals of the funder’s RFP align with your grant proposal and organizational goals  Grantseeking is always about need, but as Candid’s educational programming manager Lori Guidry says, “it’s not about your organization’s need; it’s about the need of the people or cause you’re serving.”

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

In this blog, we share the major types of grant proposal documents, their components, and free sample resources to show you what a successful version of each one looks like. Proposal budgets Proposal budgets may seem a bit dull, but many funders say it’s the first part of a grant proposal that they read. Proposal budget.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If, like my client, youre asking if its time to change your fundraising CRM , the starting point is understanding your current situation (your team, your data, and your needs) as well as your goals for the future. Save budget talks for the evaluation phase. Stay within budget : What are the true costs of changing CRMs?

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Greater Giving

JULY 5, 2024

Event Goals and Objectives Next, consider your event goals and objectives. Your event can cover one or more of these goals. Depending on what you choose, identify which format best supports those goals. appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. For example, you might want your event to: Educate or inform attendees.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

You need a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) to attract tons of attention and support for your cause. Has the blog been updated recently with a new article? And they tend to deal with the crisis du jour instead of working purposefully on things that will move them forward toward their goals. Detailed budget.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Make sure everyone knows why you are applying for each grant and what the specific goal is if you get it. Tip 8: Establish standing meetings with stakeholders to relay budget information, tracking systems, accounting codes, deadlines, and all other important, cross-cutting information. Review them regularly against the approved budget.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Have you ever been pulled into a meandering project with no clear direction or goals? Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. How does this project fit within your mission, values, and goals?

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Assel Grant Services

APRIL 7, 2024

After reviewing your award letter or agreement: Make sure you and all staff or volunteers who will be working on the grant project understand the project goals and proposed implementation plans. Review the project budget and how your grant fits into that financial structure.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

An Inclusive and Realistic Budget. The budget. Seems easy enough to put together based on conversations and what we know about the price of lumber, but without careful work based on real-time estimates, the budget can make or break the success of your campaign. Staffing Capacity to Match the Capital Fundraising Goal.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Our aim is to give individuals the ability to focus more time and energy on applying new learnings to advance their mission-driven work, without needing to find budget to simply partake in nonprofit training and learning opportunities. Creating a Sound Proposal Budget.

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

Ready to turn your campaign goals into reality? Your goal here is to briefly explain the need, and your response to the need. It outlines your campaign's preliminary plans, including the proposed projects you are planning and the overarching financial goals that you are shooting for. Don’t navigate the complexities alone.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Budget Line Item for Reserves: Include a specific line item in the budget dedicated to contributing to the operating reserves. Multi-Year Capital Budgets: Incorporate reserve contributions into multi-year capital budgets to ensure consistent replenishment over time.

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 12, 2024

In a perfect world, your budget will always be balanced. Show Impact: Tracking your revenue by fund will enable you to show how each fund is performing, how it aligns with your mission and goals, and what impact it has on your community. You will always get the grant and donors will never churn.

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Grant Writer Team

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Budget: Be clear in advance. There MUST be a budget for writing your grant proposal. Stay within that budget. Quota: A goal; most likely a goal required in order to retain some or all of the grant award. The post A to Z Grant Terminology You’ll Want to Know appeared first on GrantWriterTeam Blog.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Monday rolls around, and you find yourself posting yet another press release to your nonprofit website’s blog. You scroll through your blog roll and see post after post with long text blocks and little else. Captivating blog content is a prime opportunity to engage supporters and get them more invested in your cause.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Working with a lean budget means even the slightest unexpected expense can create a stressful situation. Lead a Revenue-Wise Strategy Session As a financial leader, you touch all areas of your nonprofit organization through budgeting, forecasting, and expense management. So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Even if it feels overwhelming at first, break it down into essential steps: Setting goals Identifying potential donors Defining your message Starting with a well-conceived plan helps you clarify goals, outline specific actions, and define your budget to achieve your goals. Ready to learn more?

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You only have a small budget allocated to the fundraiser, and you don’t have much time to plan between prepping for games and holding practice sessions. Reaching goals is easier through teamwork. Reaching goals is easier through teamwork. Set a collective goal and make team members responsible for meeting that goal.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2022

Here at Greater Giving, our goal is to help nonprofits achieve fundraising success. We hope it will provide the insights and ideas you need to achieve your goals, and change the world! Nonprofits are both meeting their goals at a much higher rate and setting higher goals in the future. What we learned from the data.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. For example: Does your application represent your mission?

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