Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 24, 2024

Protip: Grant application data and goals should be based on fiscal years or calendar years (whichever is more appropriate for your organization). Provide budget-to-actuals comparison through the last month. If you are seeking an expert partner to join you in your work to raise more funds, we are ready to join you in this work today.

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Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2024

Then mark your calendars for bbcon 2024, happening September 24–26 in Seattle, Washington. Sharpen your budgeting skills or learn how to organize your donors based on their behaviors and characteristics to boost fundraising efforts. Ready to Register? Calling all K–12 educators and administrators!

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

MARCH 4, 2021

First up, a disclaimer: Some of you reading this are not ready for NEA grants. You probably aren’t ready for federal grants at all. Is my organization ready to apply for a NEA grant? If you’ve ever read any of my other articles you probably already know how much importance I place on being “grant ready”.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Here are 8 fundraising tools that should be sharpened and ready to go in your fundraising toolkit. You must have stories ready to share about people whose lives have been significantly impacted by the work your nonprofit does. People will check you out online before they make a gift, so be ready for them. Detailed budget.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 10, 2024

Within each year’s subfolder, create folders labeled application , budget, attachment , correspondence , and reporting. Use an Outlook or Google calendar for due dates and deadlines. The six-session course focuses on key elements that will prepare a new or small organization for grant readiness. Registration is live!

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it. Set a Goal: Hopefully, your nonprofit or charity has a clear, board-approved budget that you follow. Don’t hesitate to use this budget as a guide for your year-end fundraising efforts.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 16, 2024

Unrealistic Budget: The higher the funding amount, the more stringent the rules. Missing Items: Have all documentation ready and attached before you submit. GrantWatch offers a Personalized Grants Calendar that helps you easily keep track and monitor your grants. Format Guidelines: Always follow the funder’s guidelines.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2024

FIRST, Are You Indeed Grant-Ready? Assess your grant readiness Assessment take a moment to discover what type of grants you are eligible for. Finally, personalize your My Grant Calendar to plan out your future grant applications and organize upcoming deadlines. Then, keep track of your Grant View History using My Grant Views.

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The Fundraiser Coach

AUGUST 8, 2023

Looking at the calendar, I know it isn't long now before we all will be in the "fast and furious" of year-end giving. We'll have so much to do with the fundraising, budgets, event planning, or that board thing. With our time often split between fundraising and "can you help with this?" Invest in inspiring THEM.

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Grant Consulting Services

MARCH 28, 2024

We are sharing our proprietary assessment tool that is designed to help you take a deep look at your organization to determine your grant readiness and ability to take on the arduous process of applying for grant funding. Ensure the overall grant budget is aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

Going From Volunteer to Paid Employee To get an idea of when you can start earning a nonprofit salary, you need to examine your budget and revenue forecasts. If you don’t have a budget, well, that’s your first assignment. Create an annual budget and work with your Board to adopt the budget. That would be convenient!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

*Diane’s note: You are used to our team talking about how both pre-award and post-award work connect to create an organization’s overall grant readiness. In fact, we were just talking about this in our most recent webinar about How to Be Exceptionally Grant Ready with Lucy Morgan from MyFedTrainer.com. Custom workflow options.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Ready to download the template? It’s a good idea to put together an annual fundraising calendar to include with the plan that details when things are happening and who is responsible for making them happen. Take a look at: Technology Volunteers Board Partnerships Staff Current budget. Here you go! Download Template.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 13, 2024

Financial Oversight: Keep your finances as neat as a new pin with stellar budget tracking and expenditure monitoring. Google Sheets: For those working with a tight budget, Google Sheets offers a free, flexible tool that can be customized to manage grants effectively. After all, who says grant management has to be as dull as dishwater?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Basically, if you haven’t already taken the time to create an annual budget for your nonprofit, you need to do that first. If you can find 10 good grant leads — we can usually find at least 10 hot leads when we do grant research for our clients—then you can fill your grant calendar and keep your grant pipeline full all year long.

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NextAfter

MARCH 11, 2022

A solid project management system, along with a rock star project manager, will ensure that your direct mail fundraising projects run smoothly, on time, and on budget. Essential Tasks of a Direct Mail Project Manager ANNUAL PLAN: Ensure the annual plan, including marketing calendar and budget, is drafted, and then finalized.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

Picture this: you’ve read our post on running a capital campaign , you’re wildly psyched, and you’re ready to get started! From choosing your project to the day before launch, we’ll walk you through every step so you jump into your campaign confident and ready to raise some funds. Making a Budget for Your Plan. Don’t despair.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 20, 2020

There are three key phases to the typical proposal development process: the planning phase, the writing and budget preparation phase, and the assembly and submission phase. Do you need a dedicated budget person? Every part of the proposal process needs to be associated with a milestone, and every milestone needs to go on the calendar.

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Qgiv

JUNE 6, 2023

To optimize your advertising budget, create a marketing strategy to establish the best time for your organization to use ads. Include your ad campaigns in your content calendar to maximize their return on investment. Boosted Posts Once your Facebook page is ready to go, it’s time to create your ads.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

So don't be nervous — we're ready to create amazing tech training and networking events in your community! If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Find your closest NetSquared group. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

There are some common pitfalls and rookie mistakes that many nonprofit leaders experience when trying to raise money — like these 5 funding models that we consider broken because they aren’t sustainable long-term, won’t secure your future, and won’t fully fund your budget. Avoid them!). Broken Model #1: Self Pay.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Projects like these can drain resources, take more time than necessary, and quickly become your least favorite meeting on your calendar. Are there budget requirements? Have you ever been pulled into a meandering project with no clear direction or goals?

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Cain Nonprofit Solutions

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

PROPOSAL WRITING TIP #1: Mark all important dates on your calendar This sounds like such a no-brainer but time and time again I see people miss important dates and timelines, all because they didn’t have a simple system for tracking it. Put them on your calendar. Then mark it on your calendar. You can get your copy here.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Instead, many organizations rely on grant dollars to fund a significant portion of their budget. Grant consultants tailor service packages to fit your organization’s needs and budget. If you miss this deadline, it may be a full calendar year or two before you have the opportunity to apply again.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your fundraising plan should include a detailed activities calendar showing all the various ways you plan to generate funds during the year. Are you ready?? You’ll never fully fund your budget with lots of little events, so don’t try. So skip grants until you reach year 3 or 4 and are grant ready. Rich people.”

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Grant Consulting Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These steps include: Grant Feasibility and Readiness Grant Research Building and keeping relationships with funders Budgets and Grant Applications Grant management and internal relationships Evaluation and Impact Each aspect of our process is critical to become grant optimized.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Download Our Free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar. Creating a comprehensive calendar will keep you organized this year-end so that you can focus on bringing in donations! Download the free 2021 Year-End Fundraising Calendar: 2. Are you ready for #GivingTuesday on November 30th? In 2020, donors gave over $2.47

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Community Boost

MARCH 1, 2024

Mark your calendars for March 5-7, 2024, because this action-packed three day event is just around the corner. Get ready to join us from wherever you are, no plane tickets or hotel bookings needed—access the summit from the comfort of your own space. And the best part? It’s all available to you for FREE.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Does the text-to-give software fit into your budget? From there, you’ll be ready to take off with text-to-give! Make sure you briefly walk them through how to use it so they’re ready when the event takes place! When you’re ready to add text-to-give to your next fundraising campaign, research a provider that best fits your needs.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

But … be ready to do it next year. If your Board adopted a budget for the fiscal year, your fundraising goal is the same as the total expenditures, plus at least 5 percent for cash reserves. Do ONE special event: You’ll never fully fund your budget with lots of little events. If your nonprofit is new, you get to skip this step.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The nonprofit industry stands to gain the most from this trend and the most proactive ones are already gearing up for the typical hiring binge that happens at the beginning of a calendar year when new budgets kick in. Ready to explore more jobs in the nonprofit sector? months; and health care at 13.2 months, the article cited.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

Does my budget, location, or mission affect my organization's ability to be awarded grants? The answers to those questions vary — sometimes dramatically — by annual budget and mission focus. In addition, grant funding comprised over 25 percent of the annual budget for 43 percent of survey respondents. Learn more.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Take a look at your fundraising totals for the year so far, along with any changes in your organization’s budget that need to be accounted for. Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Ready, (Re)set, Go!

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Qgiv

JULY 8, 2021

It was extra important to the team to keep the event on the calendar, not only because of its impact on their annual budget, but because it was an anticipated event that brought attention to their mission and historically resulted in adoptions and donations. Ready to see what Qgiv’s online donation forms can do for you?

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OneCause

MARCH 14, 2023

Successful events require creating a nonprofit event fundraising marketing plan well before the date to make sure guests know about the fundraiser and come in the door ready to donate. Once the foundational pieces of the event are secured, it’s time to build out a marketing calendar. In fact, it’s just getting started!

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Many organizations have to strategize around limited budgets while trying to reach the largest audience possible to get their mission out there. Developing a content calendar Consistency in marketing delivery is crucial for enhancing recognition of your nonprofit and boosting engagement with your target audience.

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DoJiggy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Frozen Cookie Dough An irresistible choice for many, offering ready-to-bake cookie dough can appeal to families and individuals alike. Calendars Custom calendars are a great sales item as they offer year-round visibility for your cause, especially if they are themed around your organization and feature impactful imagery.

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