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Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential

Blackbaud

Make Progress and Stay Organized with Project Management When I joined the foundation in 2019, I met Warren Campbell, a wonderful database consultant and project manager with Campbell Consulting LLC. We had similar methods of writing weekly data check maintenance queries in our CRM, Blackbaud Raisers Edge NXT.

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Proposal Writing Skills: Transferable?

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Let’s say you’re an experienced development staffer, or a consultant , and you’ve been submitting grant proposals to support the organization’s mission—call it child care, or mental health counseling, or any other program focus. How far afield is the new field?

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Proposal Writing the SMART Way

Grant Consulting Services

This is where the SMART approach comes into play to assist you with effective planning and embodying your vision of being realistic and adept at submitting the best possible and qualified proposal. Need some additional tips?

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Let's Talk About the Problem, Part 1

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking The heart of program planning is problem analysis. Use these four questions to challenge thinking throughout planning so that ultimately, not only is the proposal compelling and clear, but the actual program will be effective.

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Do Not Fear Outcomes

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking The whole purpose of community programs is to make a change for the better. Susan Chandler is a former trainer for The Grantsmanship Center and an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations. How much better? How well did we do? Im afraid to ask.

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Let's Talk About the Problem, Part 2

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Lets Talk About the Problem, Part 2 (or The Lack of a Program is Not the Problem) Planning programs proactively makes good sense. Patty Wolfe is an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations. Proceed as indicated (or dont.)

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Logic Models, in Plain English

The Grantsmanship Center

Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking There comes a time when a proposal needs to include a logic model. In proposals, you’re reassuring the funder that you’re not simply shooting an arrow, hitting something and calling it the target.