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Building Capacity Without Breaking the Budget: Coping with Inflation’s Ongoing Effects

Grant Professionals Association

Although inflation has cooled, balancing budgets hasnt necessarily become easier. Dive Deep into Your Budget Cost-cutting isnt just a once-a-year task during the annual budget season. Dive Deep into Your Budget Cost-cutting isnt just a once-a-year task during the annual budget season.

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The Nonprofit Administration Dilemma: How Much Should You Spend on Fundraising?

Get Fully Funded

As the costs add up, you might be asking: How much of a nonprofit’s annual budget should be spent on administrative tasks and fundraising? Look at it this way: If you’re not spending at least 15% of your budget on fundraising, you may be standing in the way of your own success. You may find yourself spending money on the tech tools.

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How to Put Together Your Annual Fundraising Plan

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This blog post explores how to create an annual fundraising plan and even provides a helpful annual fundraising plan template to help putting together your fundraising plan easier. What is an annual fundraising plan (also known as a nonprofit strategic plan)? What does a nonprofit strategic plan include?

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5 Ways to Generate More Money as a Grant Writing Consultant

Grant Writing Made Easy

Calculate how much you are making per hour for different clients, especially if you are working on a flat rate or retainer that isn’t based on an hourly rate. If you find that you are not making enough, consider raising your prices or reducing the number of grants you write for the same monthly/quarterly retainer rate.

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How to Work Best with Your Grant Consultant

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

This means you will have to share information about your organization – from important documents like your current organizational budget and 510(c)3 determination letter to details about your programs and needs of those you serve. Some charge per hour, some per project, and some on a retainer.

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Psssst! Your Website Is Trying to Tell You Something

Tech Soup

Using data to educate management, boards, and other stakeholders for strategic planning. The report quotes nonprofit technology leader, Lucy Bernholz: "Nonprofits and foundations do all the same things with digital data that businesses do — they collect, store, use, share, mine, retain, and destroy it."

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6 Resourceful Fundraising Event Strategies to Maximize Impact

Greater Giving

This flexibility ensures that the event can proceed effectively regardless of budget constraints: Modular Planning Break down the event into modular components that can be added or removed based on resource availability. This ensures core elements are retained even if budget adjustments are necessary.