Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As a nonprofit finance professional, you want all your data to be accurate. And payroll and grant reporting are two areas of your financial processes where accuracy is non-negotiable. You want your staff paid fairly, and you want to maintain good relationships with your grant funders.

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Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 2, 2025

If you havent already, now is the time to evaluate your organizations grant readiness from pre- to post-award, ensuring alignment with funders, competitive proposals, and strong fund stewardship. Understanding how your organization makes grant submission decisions is critical. Do You Have Strong Support from the Grants Team?

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 13, 2025

Your revenue is overly dependent on a handful of major donors or a single government grant. Ask the finance team. Finance teams can help their nonprofit organizations evaluate new revenue streams, enhancing the organizations stability and mitigating risk while intentionally experimenting with varied income sources.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 31, 2025

An efficient grant distribution process builds trust with your grantees and improves transparency across your organization. Here are five tips for streamlining how you get grant awards to your recipients. This is also where you can set up your grant distribution process for success.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 13, 2025

You can apply for grants and hold events, but those sometimes require more effort than its worth. Donors who opt for monthly giving find its easier on their finances. Individual giving has proven to be successful. A lot of small donations can add up! Start or grow your monthly giving program (more on that below). Even gifts of $5.00

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The World of Grant Money for Artists Understanding the Importance of Grants Grant money serves as a vital resource for artists, providing financial assistance to pursue creative projects. Grants also promote artistic innovation and diversity by funding a variety of artistic expressions, from visual arts to performing arts.

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Just Write Grants

OCTOBER 29, 2024

When it comes to securing funding, nonprofits often encounter various types of grants, each serving a different purpose. Understanding the distinctions between capital, program, and operating grants is crucial for effectively managing your organization’s finances and meeting its goals. Capital Grants 1.1 Program Grants 2.1

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 20, 2024

There are several exciting times of the year for nonprofit finance professionals—budget season, audits, year-end close. They will discuss the importance of having both your development and finances teams involved in donor stewardship. Reporting is a key part of any finance professional’s role.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 23, 2024

You have multiple income streamsdonations, grants, service feesas well as all the ways you use the money. Imagine tracking the revenue and expenses of hundreds of programs funded by scores of grants within a dozen or so cost centers in a system like QuickBooks. You Need Better Internal Controls Your organization is built on trust.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Because your organization cant turn a profit by definition, the goal of tracking your finances is to demonstrate to donors, funders, the government, and the community that youre using your funding responsibly to further your mission. Accountability is at the heart of nonprofit accounting.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As a grant professional, you have identified a great grant opportunity but the lead time is short. It’s a perfect match, but you know you’re going to have to set up meetings with the program director, finance, and possibly the executive director. The struggle is finding a collective time to meet. You’re tempted to do just that.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Nonprofit leaders are invited to Beyond the Ledger: Nonprofit Finance Summit, a free virtual event on March 13. Earn free CPE credit, network with other finance leaders and get inspiration to optimize strategic planning, reporting, grant management and accounting operations.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 20, 2025

Use Budget Scenarios in Your Fund Accounting Tool If youve already thought about what would happen if a large grant didnt come through or a major donor didnt send a check this year, youre already halfway to a solution if it happens. This proactive approach ensures you have a fallback option if needed.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Coastal Enterprises in Brunswick, Maine received $25 million, the Nonprofit Finance Fund was awarded $22 million, and Craft3 in Seattle announced it received $15 million. This is Scott’s second grant to LISC, one of the nation’s largest community development organizations. Rubin, LISC’s chairman, said via a statement. “We

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 3, 2024

With federal grant writing help, our client secured a $2.5 Million HUD grant to address homelessness in HIV population. Every grant writer understands exactly what this means. At Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates, we are celebrating a huge funding success story from one of our clients. Find a good fit.

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Grant Writer Team

MARCH 27, 2025

The board approves budgets, reviews financial reports, and ensures proper controls are in place to keep finances in check. Risk Management From finances to reputation, the board identifies and mitigates risks. Grants are competitive, and you will not win every grant you apply for. Should You Hire a Grant Writer?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Getting your programs off the ground, ensuring legal compliance, recruiting staff and volunteers, and correctly managing your nonprofit’s finances can be daunting. Businesses can support your organization in a number of ways, including matching gifts, sponsorships, volunteer grants, in-kind donations, and profit sharing. Event revenue.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This includes a grants manager to handle day-to-day implementation tasks, as well as consistent leadership to support the change. If you don’t have the right people in place, you may consider postponing the move to a new grants management system. Make sure you have the right people in the right roles to manage the switch.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Introduction to Grants Definition and Purpose of Grants A grant is a financial award provided by a government agency, foundation, or corporation to support initiatives aligned with their objectives. In essence, grants play a critical role in fostering growth and innovation by providing the necessary financial backing.

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GrantNews

JULY 19, 2024

Grants serve as critical financial aid for individuals and organizations across various sectors, supporting endeavors ranging from education and scientific research to entrepreneurial ventures. But here’s a big question: Do you have to pay taxes on grant money? We also have sample grants for each category.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As a nonprofit finance leader, you are constantly aware of the many different pulls on your funding availability. For example, you need to make sure the grant or endowment money you are spending for a particular program is being spent according to the grant or endowments terms.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Decoding Grant Writing Understanding the Basics of Grants Grants are financial awards provided by government agencies, foundations, or corporations that do not require repayment. Understanding what constitutes a grant is essential for applicants. Understanding what constitutes a grant is essential for applicants.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Grant funding looks beautiful in your income statement, but if you’re not careful, the reporting requirements can be prickly. In our webinar with Rachel Werner and James Spencer from RBW Strategy, they covered steps to help nonprofits that receive—or are looking to start receiving—government grant funding.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Grant Writing Essentials Understanding Grants and Their Purpose Grants are financial awards provided by governments, foundations, or corporations to support a specific project or initiative. Organizations or individuals seeking grant funding should clearly understand how grants function and the requirements they entail.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 8, 2024

While board members play an important role in assuring agency finances and grant funds are treated ethically, they are also partially responsible for resource development that is, ensuring their organization has the resources needed to fulfill its mission. certifications, grant agreements). braided funding strategies, direct v.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 12, 2023

And does your boss even understand the world of grants? The answers vary with every grant professional. We bring in funding for our organization, so some agencies lump us in the finance department. But where is the right fit for a grant professional? You want your grant professional to be taken seriously.

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Grant Professionals Association

MARCH 25, 2025

To expand their grant seeking, organizations often ask for more funding prospects but more doesnt always mean better. Applying to every possible grant opportunity, even ones that arent a good fit, wastes time and money and risks alienating funders. How many grants did they fund per year? She holds a Ph.D.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 9, 2025

A reserve can provide the flexibility necessary to pay for items that arent covered by restricted grants. What the Nonprofit Finance Fund calls consistent surpluses is the best way to build reserve funds. The more dependable and regular your funding is, the less risk you have and the lower your reserves can be.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act (H.R. Senate staffers are saying the bill will probably not be accepted by the Senate with the onerous language on granting the Secretary of the Treasury authority to revoke an organization’s tax-exempt status, without requiring the disclosure of evidence.

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Fundraising HayDay

JANUARY 9, 2025

As grant professionals, communication is the root of our work. Not only are we responsible for conveying information through the written word, but we must communicate with a variety of colleagues, subject matter experts, program directors, finance personnel, leaders, elected officials, funders, and more.

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Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

Understand Your Organization’s Capacity Your organization should consider these four components before applying for any grant, especially those connected to federal dollars. How will the program continue after the grant concludes? Risk Analysis – what could threaten the project or the organization?

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Blackbaud

MARCH 17, 2025

F undraising Best Practice Resources On-demand webinar: Everyday Actions, Extraordinary Potential: Engaging Everyday Donors Communicating with Donors in An Uncertain Funding Environment Get Your Grant-Funded Nonprofit Started in Fundraising Finance and Operations Best Practice Resources Webinar (March 25): Navigating Federal Funding: Essential Risk (..)

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Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Develop a more accurate overall budget In collaboration with your organization’s finance committee, create a more accurate overall budget by using project or program-based budgets. You can clearly see which revenue sources or grant-funded parts of your organization might be draining your budget instead of adding to it.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

By Eden Stiffman IF/THEN® Collection The TV series “Mission Unstoppable,” which Lyda Hill Philanthropies financed and helped develop, is aimed at girls ages 12 to 17 and features women succeeding in STEM careers. It’s been nominated for multiple Emmy awards.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Coffman stated in their GuideStar article : Theres no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. Unfortunately, philanthropies are typically (and problematically) judged by the first two criteria. As Chuck McLean and Suzanne E.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Unlike many cycles of nonprofit operations, grant reporting doesn’t really have a season; it’s all year long. Grant reporting also varies widely by funder. Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. We call this our narrative report.

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Candid

MARCH 25, 2024

Foundation grants can be one of several revenue streams in a nonprofit organization’s sustainable fundraising plan. As a share of all revenue streams, including government funding, program revenue, and investment income, foundation and corporate grants made up 15.3%. Naturally, most nonprofits will try to secure a grant at some point.

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