Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

They can fund ambitious projects that can transform your community and advance your mission. So, how do you know if your board is truly ready to lead the charge? This handy tool allows you to assess your board's readiness across seven critical areas, ensuring you're primed for a winning capital campaign.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 13, 2023

Is your organization grant-ready? When it comes down to it, grant readiness comes from preparation in three main areas: Resources, Collaboration, and Alignment. Use your organization’s strategic plan and the SMART goals within it as your guide to mission-aligned messaging. COLLABORATION: Get Your Team on Board.

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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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GrantNews

MAY 29, 2024

Celebrate Canada with Grant Funding! In the spirit of friendship, GrantWatch is providing a list of some of the many grant funding opportunities available in Canada! This category has both local, state/province, national and international funding opportunities available. The steadfast goal? A shared prosperity for all!

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 8, 2024

They fund ambitious projects that can transform communities and advance missions. So, how do you know if your board is truly ready to lead the charge? This handy tool allows you to assess your board's readiness across seven critical areas, ensuring you're primed for a winning capital campaign.

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GrantNews

MAY 15, 2024

Locating the correct grant funding sources can be a daunting task. If you have not considered grants, you will be happy to learn that they are a great way to secure funding. To illustrate, a grant is awarded to fund ideas and projects. To illustrate, a grant is awarded to fund ideas and projects. Where do you turn?

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Blackbaud

MARCH 21, 2024

Have you ever been pulled into a meandering project with no clear direction or goals? Any major project—such as implementing new fund accounting software—needs a well-developed charter to keep stakeholders focused on the goals and desired outcome. How does this project fit within your mission, values, and goals?

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Red Tape Busters

JANUARY 26, 2024

Are you ready to take your organisation’s funding potential to the next level? But before you dive into the world of grant applications, it’s essential to ensure that you’re grant ready. Understanding Grant Readiness Grant readiness is all about positioning your organisation to maximise your funding potential.

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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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Ignited Fundraising

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Meet your Giving Tuesday fundraising goal, that is. What was the financial gap between where the organization is today and where it must be by end of the day or end of December to fully fund their mission? What will it take for you to exceed YOUR fundraising goals? The post Did you meet your Giving Tuesday Fundraising Goal?

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 19, 2022

For some nonprofit leaders, it's also a time to start thinking about a new program year, new budget, and new goals and objectives. The same applies to seeking grant funding. New years is a time for celebration- from watching a ball drop, partying the night away with loved ones, or just celebrating in general. You get the drift.

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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. Are we expecting grant revenue?

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Blackbaud

JULY 16, 2024

Annual funds are crucial to the success of a nonprofit. They’re an incredible pool of unrestricted funds that can support your mission, keep the lights on, and pay your staff. Attracting and retaining new donors is a goal of every nonprofit since unrestricted funds are essential to our operations.

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Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 3, 2024

Are you ready for a reset? Better yet, is your grant strategy ready for a reset? From there, the steps I take are: Review agency/client goals and any updated strategic plans. I review the updated strategic plan to understand the high-level, overarching goals as I begin to create my grant calendar for 2024. It’s January.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

We’ve outgrown our space, we need a bigger endowment fund, we need to serve more people – it’s time for a capital fundraising campaign. to describe the development team’s feelings, but the question they all have is: “Are we really ready to do this?”. In the end, it will take you the same amount of total time to get to the goal.

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GrantNews

AUGUST 16, 2024

When preparing for a successful grant interview, it can feel nearly impossible to anticipate every question a funding source might ask. That’s why we’re sharing six valuable tips to help your nonprofit get ready for a successful grant interview! Remember, funders can tell if your passion is genuine or not.

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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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Grant Consulting Services

MARCH 26, 2023

Grant optimization and readiness helps you determine if your organization is eligible and helps prepare your organization to start applying for grant funding. In order to start the grant process, the organization’s capacity has to be evaluated to ensure the best chance for grant funding success. What is Grant Optimization?

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Assel Grant Services

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Funding Alert! There are several types of funding that correspond with those goals. With an estimated funding pool of $61,000,000, the IUSE program anticipates funding 135 total awards. What if I am ready to apply? The program is open for two and four year institutions where innovation teaching is happening.

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Assel Grant Services

MARCH 18, 2024

Awards range from $50,000 to $1million and there is a three-year period of performance beginning the date the funds are released. What is the program goal? The goal of the program is to acquire and install the equipment to provide distance learning and telemedicine. What if I am ready to apply?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The holidays are coming soon and that means you need to be ready to make the most of it, starting with getting your nonprofit website spiffed up, donor friendly, and ready to receive donations. Here’s a list of 6 things you can do to get your nonprofit website ready for the holidays. That’s a problem. First things first!

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AmpliFund

APRIL 24, 2023

Grant programs across the country are used to doing incredible things with fewer resources than they need, but right now t here is more federal funding available than ever before. S uddenly, grant s teams are finding that they may be able to get the funding they need for the projects they ' ve previously had to put on the back burner.

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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. You can manage a cash accounting system in a basic spreadsheet, which is helpful if your nonprofit isn’t ready to invest in specialized accounting software yet.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Why and how Candid updated our racial equity funding site . The nationwide racial reckoning triggered by the 2020 murder of George Floyd has resulted in a dramatic increase in funding for racial equity. The result is a refreshed site that gives a more complete picture of past funding and allows for stronger comparisons over time.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The need for nonprofit start-up funding is huge, and today’s post is your guide to finding it. So today, I’d like to share some advice and best practices for finding funds to start a new nonprofit, as well as some tips for setting yourself up for long-term financial stability. Your next steps. Register today!

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine this: you set what you think is an ambitious fundraising goal for your virtual event and then watch as you double, triple, quadruple that goal in the days leading up to the event. Then, you cross the finish line – and end up raising 12 times your fundraising goal ! Ah, the powers of technology.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In our story, the resolution would be raising enough funds to provide every school child with a nutritional breakfast and lunch. Amit and Priya both leave for work very early in the morning, so Fatima is on her own to get ready for school. A donation from you will help us meet this goal and continue to help families in crisis.

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Assel Grant Services

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The goal of the YHSI Grant Program is “to increase state and local capacity to better serve youth and create projects that are responsive to the needs of youth at-risk of or experiencing homelessness in the community.” With an estimated funding pool of $50,000,000, HUD anticipates funding 35 total awards. an entire state).

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Millionaire Grant Lady

APRIL 3, 2024

Government agencies offer many federal grants that fund a wide range of work to a wide range of organizations. These funding opportunities often promise much larger awards than private grants. Simply applying for federal grants that are a good fit for your organization will increase your chances of winning this funding.

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Grant Writer Team

AUGUST 22, 2024

Have you ever applied for grant funding and been rejected? Does your organization need funding, but you don’t have the time to write a grant application? These applications, created by funders, are designed to review requests from organizations seeking funding. What Is a Professional Grant Writer and How Do They Help?

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Blackbaud

MAY 6, 2024

A clear understanding of your core mission and short-term and long-term goals aligns the budget and financial decisions with the overall direction of the organization. Having your organization’s mission and short- and long-term goals as a guide will also allow for flexibility in the budget.

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Grant Writer Team

AUGUST 15, 2024

Start-ups face stiff competition in securing funding. It’s important to understand that it can take time for funds to be disbursed. Experienced grant writers tap into multiple grant directories and understand how to identify the opportunities that align with your specific goals.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

As we all begin planning for 2023, I want you to pause for a moment and consider how more grant funding could change your day-to-day nonprofit operations. And I’m talking about more funding. More funding makes a lot possible for organizations. What could you accomplish with more grant funding? This makes sense.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 12, 2024

Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just dipping your toes in, we’ve got the tips and tricks to help you reach your goals. Fundraising campaigns are like the secret sauce of your nonprofit’s funding strategy. It’s perfect for specific projects or emergencies where you can tell a compelling story and set a clear goal.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JUNE 5, 2024

Always check what AI gives you, and make sure it fits with your organization’s goals, brand, and voice. Humans, though, can cognitively process what has been written and predict, based on their understanding of their organization’s goals and the funder’s goals, what needs to be written next. Understand context. You know that.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Create an Operating Reserve Fund (or Review Your Policy) An operating reserve is a crucial part of creating a strong financial foundation for your organization. Like an emergency fund for your organization, an operating reserve allows you time to make data-driven decisions instead of having to react immediately.

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GrantNews

JUNE 7, 2024

Have you ever applied for grant funding and been rejected? Does your organization need funding but you don’t have the time to write a grant application? Grant applications are created by grant funders to help them review requests from organizations that are interested in funding. You are not alone.

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