Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 8, 2025

AI can automate labor-intensive tasks and improve the quality of grant proposals, but ethical considerations are critical to maintaining trust and credibility in highly regulated sectors. However, organizations in regulated industries must tread carefully, ensuring AI use adheres to strict ethical and legal standards.

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Grant Writer Team

MARCH 27, 2025

Risk Management From finances to reputation, the board identifies and mitigates risks. Governance & Ethics Boards set policies that keep operations ethical, legal, and mission-aligned. The board approves budgets, reviews financial reports, and ensures proper controls are in place to keep finances in check.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Spend the best 30 minutes of your day as Natalie Monroe, Community Engagement Manager at MemoryFox, shares the secrets to identifying and crafting compelling stories that drive engagement and inspire action. The ethical considerations of nonprofit storytelling, and strategies to ensure you are a good steward of your community stories.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Grant Ethics: The Ethics of Program Implementation and Reporting After a Grant is Funded Session 7 of the Ethics Series While ethics must be considered in all stages of the grant lifecycle, the part that most people worry about is program implementation and reporting. Continuing Education Unit (CEU). points in Category 1.B

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Blackbaud

JULY 8, 2024

That is wonderful—if you have the tools to accurately track and manage all the moving pieces. From maintaining donor intent to tracking distributions and appreciation across funds, endowments have a lot of details to manage. The Importance of Strong Endowment Management Endowments symbolize strength for an organization.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Welcome to the continuation of the October Ethics Month article series! We are diving deeper into the GPA Code of Ethics this week, focusing on the “Professional Obligations” section. It is your professional obligation to recognize and acknowledge your limitations (GPA Code of Ethics 7).

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MARCH 6, 2023

Making sure the most valuable events get the attention they need, revitalizing or eliminating those not so successful, and considering ethics in storytelling were a few of the topics discussed at a recent Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum Conference.

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Grant Training Center

JULY 31, 2023

The NIH closely scrutinizes the Data Management Plan (DMP) as a fundamental part of the grant application, for it demonstrates how data will be handled and generated during the research project. Roles and responsibilities: Clearly define the roles and responsibilities of team members regarding data management.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 24, 2024

The management team members must all use time sheets themselves, get approval for travel expenses, have their credit cards scrutinized. Emphasize the importance of ethics and controls at staff meetings, and demonstrate that everyone follows the rules, all the time.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Members shall, if applicable, take care to ensure that grants are used in accordance with the grant’s intent and that timely reports accurately describe the management of such funds. Ethics in the grant world can be subjective. We need to consistently return to GPA’s guidance and resources to assist us with ethical judgement calls.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Thankfully, the GPA Code of Ethics provides clear guidance on the presentation of information. It would be a violation of the code of ethics for the grant professional to disclose privileged information to unauthorized parties (GPA Code of Ethics, 13). The grant professional feels uneasy and is uncertain about what to do.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Ethical Considerations in School FundraisingTransparency, Safety & Legal Compliance What Are the Ethical Considerations in School Fundraising? Ethical considerations in school fundraising ensure that activities are transparent and legally compliant and the well-being of participants is prioritized.

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As professionals, we face situations that can potentially compromise our ethics and values, sometimes without even knowing it. Reasons why this is not a best practice are complex, but the GPA Code of Ethics , numbers 17-20, outlines more: 17. Or been told they will not compensate until the grant is awarded? Author Bio: Lisa Mead, M.S.,

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive. In my more than 20 years as a philanthropy grants manager, nonprofit executive, and consultant, Ive seen how technology decisions can either amplify equity or entrench existing barriers. Adopt equity-driven frameworks. Foster collaboration.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Given my tenure in the corporate and nonprofit worlds, I believe I can serve as the bellwether for predicting healthy management practices and diagnosing toxic ones. Should I bring this issue up to executive management? I decided it wasn’t worth my effort to report the consultant’s behavior with executive management.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 9, 2023

I've had many careers over the past 30+ years and in all of them, the companies and professions have defined codes of ethics. But even with these guidelines that all employees had to agree to, I've encountered quite a few situations where I've been asked to do something I thought was questionable from an ethical or moral standpoint.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In the wake of the October Ethics Month articles, you are all now experts on the GPA code of ethics! Even with an irrefutable command of grant writing the GPA Code of Ethics , you will encounter situations that give you pause. It’s important to recognize that ethical decisions aren’t always black and white.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

According to BoardSource , the board [of directors] is responsible for ensuring that the organization is appropriately stewarding the resources entrusted to it and following all legal and ethical standards. This commitment by an organizations governing body is the crux of fiduciary responsibility. Celebrate the wins.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 14, 2024

Ethics are moral principles that govern an individual’s or group’s behavior or activities. Within the grant profession, the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) has defined a clear code of ethics for members to abide by and establish boundaries within practice that uphold the integrity of the industry.

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Strategic Grants

MARCH 17, 2025

The research team at Strategic Grants spend hundreds of hours each month reviewing newsletters, funder sites, LinkedIn and many other resources to find funding and grants to update in our Grants Expertise Management System (GEMS) , ensuring our clients have a strong pipeline of funding prospects that align with their funding priorities.

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Grant Ethics: The Ethics of Program Implementation and Reporting After a Grant is Funded Session 7 of the Ethics Series While ethics must be considered in all stages of the grant lifecycle, the part that most people worry about is program implementation and reporting. Continuing Education Unit (CEU). points in Category 1.B

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Grant Training Center

MARCH 8, 2023

Equally, leadership training has become increasingly significant for those who need to be successful at managing and implementing grants, for their leadership skills will have an important effect on their teams and their ongoing efforts to continue procuring external funding.

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Think and Ink Grants

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The bottom line is that it's against the Grant Professionals Association's Code of Ethics. This work is rooted in grant management, relationship building, and stewardship. This tip is FALSE. It will take some additional strategy, but it is definitely not impossible. We have mastered how to overcome this common issue.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 21, 2025

As we navigate this new era, keeping Who at the heart of our work is no longer just a best practice - its our ethical responsibility. Danny Blitch, MPA, GPC , from Woodstock, Georgia, is the Managing Consultant of Federal Grants at Alloy Fundraising in Atlanta.

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GiveSmart

JANUARY 23, 2025

Storytelling Storytelling is paramount to achieving success with your fundraising and donor management strategies; it drums up emotions, creates deeper understanding, and bridges genuine connections with your support network to your mission. Stories stay with us. Many free AI-based tools for nonprofits can help save you time.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? Even in cases where subject matter experts carefully manage data, biases can creep in. Understanding the limits of a given AI is crucial in defining ethical use.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

Over the past five years of researching and writing about AI adoption for the nonprofit sector, we have argued for nonprofits to use AI ethically and responsibly—which means taking a human-centered, strategic, and reflective approach. And, third, AI technology should never be used primarily as a way for management to reduce headcount.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When seeking new donors and building relationships with prospective grantmakers and individual donors, it's important to consider how ethics plays a role. Nonprofits rely on the work of dedicated staff and volunteers and on charitable gifts.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

To use AI effectively, a proposal team must set ground rules for ethical deployment and ensure that AI serves as a tool, not a team member. Subject matter experts are often working beyond their capacity to manage their proposal duties. To support them, understand the RFP thoroughly, and spell out what you need from each partner.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 3, 2025

Hire a cybersecurity specialist to conduct penetration testing, also known as ethical hacking. Use IT security measures like Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) email authentication processes or email filtering. Require multi-factor authentication on all accounts.

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Grant Professionals Association

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Despite the changing landscape, the code of ethics remains our north star, guiding us with principle and in practice. Together, we will build and create once more with the Code of Ethics and our integrity in tow. Question: As a grant professional how can the code of ethics guide you during times of change?

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Grant Professionals Association

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

To use AI effectively, a proposal team must set ground rules for ethical deployment and ensure that AI serves as a tool, not a team member. Subject matter experts are often working beyond their capacity to manage their proposal duties. To better support them, understand the RFP thoroughly, and spell out what you need from each partner.

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Strategic Grants

JULY 16, 2024

Despite the donation being at a level of significance to the organisation, their CEO felt it was important to be ethical and has publicly spoke about how donor-nonprofit relationships run two ways. Ethics Check : Verify alignment with your organisation’s mission and values.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 24, 2024

A grant management system is no place for your garbage. Without good data management examples and expectations, your team may not be aware they are making these mistakes. Data governance is the cornerstone of data management. Identify Critical Data You can’t manage data you don’t know you have, or don’t know where it’s located.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This innovation is particularly beneficial for managing chronic diseases and cognitive decline, which are common concerns among the elderly. The Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers offers respite care, education, and mental health counseling to help caregivers manage their responsibilities more effectively.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

You’re connecting the dots to create a picture of what your organization is and who you are, who you stand for, and your values and ethics. You have to be constantly talking about your values, your ethics, and what you stand for so you attract the right kind of person to your social media. That’s what the really big organizations do!

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The Fundraising Coach

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Work with trusted providers, follow best practices for data security and ethics, and be transparent with your community about how your organization uses AI to prevent risks and maximize the benefits of these tools. What are the next steps to take after conducting prospect research?

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