Greater Giving

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Whether your events included auctions, galas, or virtual campaigns, understanding key metrics and takeaways will set you up for even greater success next year. Heres why you should prioritize a thorough review: Measure Performance Track goals like attendance, revenue, and donor engagement.

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Fundly

JUNE 20, 2024

Your nonprofit’s donors lead busy lives—managing their careers, maintaining social relationships, and pursuing their personal goals. Nonprofits can raise funds, acquire new donors, build community partnerships, and spread awareness of their missions. Set a goal and budget. Crowdfunding 9. Promote your campaign.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Even as overall giving slumps, this increase is significant because it means that more organizations are receiving reliable funding on a monthly basis. Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. Determine your objectives.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2024

In this guide, we’ll dive into what you can do to discover, analyze, and appeal to donor motivations and maintain a healthy level of funding for your cause. Consideration: The donor deepens their engagement by navigating to the nonprofit’s website and reading resources about its mission, programs, and goals.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JULY 24, 2024

Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates has helped nonprofits earn more than $100 million in funding. As we have worked with nonprofits, some of those nonprofits love to delve into data and constantly adjust goals and metrics, and other nonprofits need more guidance about how to structure their goals to be data-driven.

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 9, 2025

To stand out in the competitive grant landscape of 2025, aligning your proposals with your organizations strategic goals is not just advisableits essential. Are your goals and objectives still relevant for 2025? Ensure that your strategic goals are: Specific and Measurable: Clearly define what success looks like.

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Just Write Grants

JANUARY 2, 2025

Understanding these projected trends will help nonprofits stay ahead of the curve and optimize their funding strategies. Predictive Analytics : Grant seekers will use predictive analytics to identify potential funding opportunities and tailor proposals based on trends and funder preferences.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2024

The most obvious benefit to a partnership is the possibility of additional funding—but these collaborations have much more to offer. Your partner may share more than just funding with you. Get an idea of the funding or other resources the partner is willing to provide. What are the benefits of building community partnerships?

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Candid

JANUARY 28, 2025

Smaller shares of grantmakers providing technology and tools, unrestricted funding The good news is that a significant majority of funders are now committed to streamlining grant applications (67%) and reporting processes (56%). Funding technology for equitable outcomes Why should this matter to grantmakers?

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Blackbaud

MARCH 15, 2024

The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. If you are not sure which metrics are essential or how to convert your data into something stakeholders can grasp and absorb, start simply by setting clear goals. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Picture this: as donations roll in, a progress bar fills up automatically, showing exactly how close you are to hitting your matching goal. Plus, when there is a match in place, these metrics automatically double! Multiple matches make giving feel like a team effort, as donors know they’re helping to unlock additional funds.

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Assel Grant Services

JULY 6, 2024

Yet data helps leadership and the board of directors quantify the year-to-year success and progress toward department goals. All too often, an organization will set unrealistic goals without adequate resources or available opportunities or set unreasonable expectations for the number of applications an individual needs to submit.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 2, 2024

Keeping thorough, accurate records of your organization’s finances allows you to know how much funding you have on hand and effectively allocate it to further your mission. It’s less useful for future planning and goal-setting since you don’t have official, complete records of expected revenue or outstanding payments. future growth.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

JUNE 4, 2024

How to Set Realistic Goals for Your School Fundraiser Blog Summary: This blog offers a comprehensive guide for school administrators, teachers, PTA members, and community stakeholders on how to set achievable SMART goals for school fundraisers. The SMART goals framework provides a practical approach to setting these objectives.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

While goals are vital to success, SMART fundraising goals help make sure you’re setting goals that you just can’t miss. Can’t miss” goals! In some form or fashion, we’ve all heard how essential goals are. Set a goal! Set a goal! Set a goal! Goals, goals, goals….

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Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Do we have the funds this year to maintain our programs? Most organizations face frequent budget cuts, which creates organizational uncertainty and a scramble for new funding options. 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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GrantNews

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In essence an RFP is a solicitation released by a funding agency who has money to donate to a good cause. An RFP makes it clear whether the goals of a potential grant maker either do or do not align with the mission of a nonprofit. To begin, the Project Goals section lists the critical community needs the funder wants to address.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Your website can be a great marketing tool, but it can also help your nonprofit raise funds. Clearly outline your immediate funding priorities, such as specific programs, campaigns, or goals. Offering insight into how funds are allocated demonstrates accountability and reassures donors that their money is being used effectively.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Donor data can help you understand you donors and reach new ones, set goals and track successes and ways to grow, and—most importantly—data can keep your nonprofit on track to fulfill your mission! To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits.

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The Fundraiser Coach

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

One of the biggest challenges we face as major gift fundraisers is balancing two distinct ways of thinking: our internal, metrics-driven mindset versus the donor-focused approach that builds relationships. Dollars vs. Impact: Shift the Conversation to Outcomes The Fundraiser Mindset: "We need to close this $50,000 gift to hit our Q1 goal."

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 23, 2025

At some point, every entrepreneur asks the same question: Is my business eligible for grant funding? Researching and applying for grant funding requires dedication, time, and effort, and there are several important things you need to know before applying. This type of funding often comes with specific requirements.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

So, using the same kind of language as every other charity repeatedly expressing their need for funding may not be the most effective strategy. If we don’t follow through on our rhetoric, we will fail to sustain the trust critical to securing more funding. This brings the listener into a uniquely powerful frame: “We don’t seek gifts.

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DonorSnap

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Unfortunately, some years nonprofits might not hit their goal. In this blog post, we will cover how nonprofits should handle not meeting a fundraising goal and how they can communicate the results of the campaign with their supporters. Should nonprofits tell their supporters when they don’t hit a fundraising goal?

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Grant Writer Team

JANUARY 2, 2025

Securing grant funding is a primary goal for many nonprofit organizations. Support your proposal with concrete data and research that substantiate the need for funding and the potential impact of your project. Articulate clear interim and summative metrics to demonstrate the impact of your project. Seems simple, right?

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Blackbaud

JULY 24, 2024

Unlike a for-profit business’s accountant, who would review the company’s data to determine how to maximize profitability, a nonprofit accountant will use your organization’s financial information to decide how best to use your funding to pursue your organization’s mission. Tracking financial metrics.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 30, 2024

To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success, lets look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. You will have the elements to translate between and marry the business metrics that ROI measured and your mission impact criteria.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

They provide essential funding that helps these organizations execute their missions, develop programs, and serve their communities. Here is a breakdown of how grants impact nonprofit organizations: Impact Area Description Financial Stability Grants offer critical funding to sustain and grow operations.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 28, 2024

Securing funding can often feel like an uphill battle in nonprofits’ fluctuating economic landscape. This blog post delves into practical strategies for nonprofits seeking to enhance their grant writing skills and secure necessary funding during challenging periods. Why Is This Considered a Tough Time for Nonprofit Funding?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A very common “go-to” funding idea for small nonprofits is fundraising events. They’re transactional by nature and not a good long-term solution for funding. Diverse funding streams are the key to success. But if the event meets your goals for revenue and awareness, it might be ok. Probably not!) Point blank.

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Blackbaud

MAY 27, 2024

With all the spreadsheet juggling that comes with budget season, it’s easy to forget the primary goal of your organization’s budget: to gain visibility into your organization’s finances and plan for the future. Luckily, your fund accounting software helps you tackle all these situations. Which programs will receive it? Congratulations!

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Grant Writing Essentials Understanding the essential aspects of grant writing is critical for success in securing funding. Understanding the Purpose of Grants Grants are financial awards provided by various funding organizations or agencies to support specific projects or initiatives.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 18, 2024

These include disparities in funding allocation, lack of representation and diversity among leadership, and a tendency to prioritize short-term outcomes over long-term systemic change. This means moving away from rigid funding structures and timelines toward more agile and responsive approaches.

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Candid

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The money from French Gates is mostly being disbursed through donor-advised funds (DAFs); in the spirit of helping boys and girls, men and women, my new DAF is called Rise Together. Instead, they can fester and turn into grievances which can be weaponized in service of reactionary goals. Gender equality is not a zero-sum game.

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CauseVox

MAY 29, 2024

Now you can sit back and watch the funds pour in. No more manually adjusting your progress, donors can see instantly how close you are to your goal, which encourages greater generosity. For example, on the campaign Together For Gambia, anytime someone donates $8, another care package is added to their impact metric counter.

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Grant Writer Team

AUGUST 15, 2024

Start-ups face stiff competition in securing funding. It’s All About Monitoring Metrics Develop a solid budget for your business and track key metrics, demonstrating your performance. It’s important to understand that it can take time for funds to be disbursed.

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Candid

JANUARY 20, 2023

Platinum  Impact—showcase your nonprofit’s mission-driven goals and impress donors with the difference you’re making.  Only two key components are required to achieve a Platinum Seal :  Strategy and goals: Upload your strategic plan or briefly answer two questions.  Metrics: Share at least one impact-based metric from 2022. 

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AmpliFund

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Monitoring your organization’s grant recipients is crucial for accurately measuring outcomes and making informed decisions for future funding. This can lead to incomplete or unreliable information on outcomes and impact, which hinders your organization's ability to assess the effectiveness of funded projects and make data-driven decisions.

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