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Learning from peers to refine your nonprofit funding strategy

Candid

These include categories like grants, donations from individuals, support from companies, and earned income from services or products. Those capabilities cant be built overnight, so youll need to share your findings and proposed funding strategy with key internal stakeholderswho are vital to implementing it.

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Grant Proposals: Problem or Needs Statement

GrantNews

It’s important to create a problem or needs statement before you write an effective proposal. To that end, we hope the following information helps you to better understand its importance when preparing your grant proposal. The functionality of your problem or needs statement is as the primary driver of your grant proposal.

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What are Matching Grants and Why You Should Want Them

GrantNews

Though there are challenges to meeting the criteria in order to apply for matching grants, the end result can yield a much greater return on the time and effort you put into writing and submitting this kind of grant proposal. Primary consideration for Foundation funding will be for proposals utilizing matching grants.

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The Time to Start Planning Your Year-End Fundraising Campaign is Now

Ann Green's Nonprofit

Work backwards to figure out how you can get to your proposed send date. You’ll want some good photos for your letter and donation page, too. Your current donors are your best source of donations. Acknowledge if someone has donated in the past or is a monthly donor. Is it easy to donate online?

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News to Use! What Fundraisers Can Expect from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Expiration

Gail Perry Group

While the TCJA didnt change charitable giving deduction limits - you could still deduct up to 60% of your adjusted gross income for cash donations - it reduced most tax rates and doubled the standard deduction to $12,000 for individual filers and $24,000 for couples. Here's the bombshell: Only 7.5% of Americans now itemize their taxes.

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Where Are Your Donations Coming From?

Greater Giving

For example, one nonprofit could receive forty percent of their funding through donations from individuals, thirty percent from corporate sponsorships, and thirty percent through grants, while another organization could receive all their funding through a major donor program. Donations from Individuals. Federated Funds. Major Donors.

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3 common fundraising mistakes nonprofits make—and how to avoid them 

Candid

Foundations: Relying on experienced, proven grant writers to research and write proposals. Instead of one-time transactions for small amounts of money, in Altruist’s experience working with top-level clients, this approach involves a six- to 12-month-long process for raising millions in new capital.