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Pre- and Post-Award is like PB&J

RBW Strategy

Thinking through the post-award experience from a pre-award vantage Picture this – you work at a nonprofit and have a big, audacious project that you are looking to get off the ground. Do those documents provide a path for handling the unexpected? Start with the highest priority policies and then go from there. Were here to help.

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How to Kickoff Your Federal Grant Project

RBW Strategy

Whether you are a recipient, pass-through entity, or subrecipient, you have been given the unique responsibility of becoming a steward of federal grant funds. Through these policies and procedures, you’ll want to answer the following questions: Has management designed policies and procedures to handle a wide variety of circumstances?

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Estate Planning Essentials: 10 Crucial Documents for Organizing Your Affairs

Planned Giving

This entails organizing various legal documents to ensure your wishes are respected. Below is a comprehensive checklist of the essential documents needed for effective estate planning, why they are important, and how to obtain them. Sign the Document : Ensure it is signed and notarized.

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What are your nonprofit’s priorities and goals for 2025?

Blue Avocado

We will be able to point out and document what we have done and ask for increased funding to do more, such as work on some public arts projects. We will empower our supporters to be champions of our cause through engagement and through our volunteer opportunities. Or change it with donor approval?

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Untangling the New Uniform Grant Guidance

RBW Strategy

This is a natural consequence when several different administrative requirements documents and cost circulars are consolidated into one document, and meant to be universally applied. I co-led a session through MyFedTrainer in which we discussed these topics more in-depth. Let’s examine each one. Plus, there’s more….

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Colmena Consulting, in partnership with Philanthropy Together, collective giving through giving circlesinformal convenings of people with aligned values, identifying and collectively deciding where to direct pooled fundstotaled more than $3.1 But what makes giving by women unique?

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Bequest Marketing: The Ultimate Guide to Your Most Essential Planned Giving Strategy

Planned Giving

Legacy gifts through bequest marketing require no immediate financial commitment from donors, removing a significant barrier to participation. Simple bequest language can be provided to donors for their attorney to incorporate into their will or estate documents.