Ann Green's Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

By Jon Osterburg If you work for a new nonprofit, your team’s primary goal is probably to get your operations off the ground and start furthering your mission. You’ll create strategic plans, brainstorm new projects and programs, and organize campaigns to raise the necessary funds to execute your ideas. Let’s get started!

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

However, sustaining these programs requires resources, and many organizations seek funding through grants to cover their costs. It offers a user-friendly platform where organizations can search for funding opportunities tailored to their needs. Funding helps families pay for mental-health care for children under 21.

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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. Multiple matches make giving feel like a team effort, as donors know they’re helping to unlock additional funds. It’s an incredible way to rally support and reach your fundraising goals faster!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

How do you write a grant and win tons of funding? Preparation, or in the grant writer’s case “Readiness”. Readiness is all about preparing your organization to write a grant proposal and creating a strategy for ensuring you are pursuing the right funding sources to help your organization meet its mission.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Unlocking Funding Opportunities with Grant Writing The Importance of Grant Writing for Non-Profit Organizations Grant writing is a vital skill for non-profit organizations seeking funding. These funds can provide essential resources, allowing them to expand their services and impact their communities.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Alex Dunn, CFRE, is a grant consultant who founded the company Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates to help busy nonprofits save time and money while maximizing their grant funding. Unlike a new grant writer that takes time to hire and train, Alex and her team are ready to step in to support your fundraising team today.

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Blackbaud

JUNE 6, 2024

When evaluating your school’s readiness for a capital campaign, database readiness might not be at the top of the list for your campaign consultants or administration. Fine-tune your fund setup. It is also directly related to the fund cash flow reports your finance office depends on.

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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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GiveSmart

DECEMBER 3, 2024

What else can your nonprofit do to have a strategic end-of-the-year to reach your goals? As you finalize your plans, here are a few questions you and your team should ask yo urselves: How are the organization’s actuals trending toward 2024 goals? What are my nonprofit’s needs between now and the end of the year?

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GrantNews

MAY 7, 2024

Question: Is your nonprofit ready for a rebrand? While we tend to think of marketing strategies as only applying to for-profit companies, they also help nonprofits reach their goals as well. Funding – Difficulty getting grants is also another reason nonprofits might want to change their brand.

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Blackbaud

MAY 23, 2024

In the last five years, nonprofits have witnessed a significant upswing in the availability of federal funding. Initiatives like the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and other pass-through funding to states and local governments have spurred a surge in nonprofits seeking federal funding.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Spur Local’s Donation Counter Spur Local used a donation counter to add a sense of urgency and community as everyone rallied together to hit the goal. By connecting the funds raised to specific outcomes, you create a deeper emotional connection between donors and your mission.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

All in unrestricted funds with no reporting necessary. While nonprofits will hopefully see an increase in unrestricted funds—and a decrease in burdensome reporting requirements—as part of this and other movements, good nonprofit accounting principles still apply. What Are Restricted Funds? What are Unrestricted Funds?

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The Fundraiser Coach

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Dollars vs. Impact: Shift the Conversation to Outcomes The Fundraiser Mindset: "We need to close this $50,000 gift to hit our Q1 goal." Expand the Conversation Beyond One Funding Area The Fundraiser Mindset: "They're interested in supporting X program, so I don’t want to bring up anything else."

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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

GrantWriterTeam offers a solution by connecting nonprofits with experienced grant writers ready to help craft winning proposals. Funding is to benefit individuals with disabilities, as well as low-income families, children, and youth. Funding supports a range of program areas, including science and technology research.

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Gail Perry Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

Ready to turn your campaign goals into reality? You are not ready. Your goal here is to briefly explain the need, and your response to the need. It outlines your campaign's preliminary plans, including the proposed projects you are planning and the overarching financial goals that you are shooting for.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

JANUARY 29, 2025

If you want to find and apply for foundation funding especially, you wont find many of the best opportunities through a web search. Only a high-quality funder database, read and analyzed by an expert, will match you with the majority of funding opportunities, which are rarely posted or publicized by foundations.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 9, 2025

Each rejection offers valuable lessons that can improve your chances of securing funding in the future. How to Get Approval on Your Grant Application Common Reasons a Grant Is Rejected Since your goal is to get approval on your grant application, let’s look at the most common reasons a grant is rejected, along with the solutions.

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Candid

MARCH 17, 2025

It turned out, however, that local leaders werent ready to interact across such intense divides. Backed by the New Pluralists, Resetting the Table (RTT) stepped in with a plan for training ideologically and racially diverse local leaders to discuss issues together.

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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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Grant Writer Team

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Nonprofits need a projected annual budget for transparency, especially if grant funding is needed. Nonprofits seeking grant funding need to provide an annual budget to the funding source. Agree on Program Goals Second, determine your program goals. You need to prioritize program delivery goals.

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Candid

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Once they’re in the door, encourage them to become donors when they’re ready—to foster deeper and more organic relationships. A giving circle provides the opportunity for a group of people to pool their funds and make a collective donation to an organization of their choice.

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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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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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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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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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Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While nonprofits often wait to assess impact after funding is secured, evaluating impact potential before submitting a grant proposal can significantly strengthen your application. Define Clear Impact Objectives Aligned with the Funder’s Goals Funders want to see that your program’s goals align closely with their mission.

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CauseVox

MARCH 4, 2025

When nonprofits run online fundraising campaigns, it’s easy to only focus on the big picturehitting that overall fundraising goal. With CauseVox, you can easily customize your donation tiers based on your organization’s fundraising goals. The good news? People are more likely to give (and even give more!)

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

And we strongly support stopping bad actors from using nonprofit organizations to fund terrorism. 9495 may achieve the goal of expediting these cases, but it does so at the expense of fairness and transparency. Unfortunately, this legislation as drafted also includes language from H.R.6408 Section 4 of H.R.9495

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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. Giving Tuesday: FAQs Ready to become a Giving Tuesday expert? Nonprofits can raise funds, acquire new donors, build community partnerships, and spread awareness of their missions. Crowdfunding 9.

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GiveSmart

JANUARY 22, 2025

Many organizations collect the majority of their funding through these types of events. Check out The Essential Fundraising Event Checklist: Implementation for to-dos and action items to make your next event a goal-getting success! Three out of four organizations begin selling tickets 30+ days before the event start date.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Mary’s Pence funds women-led organizations and groups working for social change in the U.S., As a new board member of Mary’s Pence, Natasha was ready to make a difference. The first program is Mary’s Pence Grants , which funds women-led grassroots organizations in the U.S. Mary’s Pence is creative in funding ESPERA.

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Blackbaud

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Your food bank needs accounting software that can help you manage a variety of funding sources while also helping you make strategic, data-driven decisions based on inventory and forecasted community demand. Provide clear stewardship for restricted funds. Improve transparency by communicating the status of your restricted fund balance.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

You can make it easy for them to choose what fits best for their goals and budget by offering several donation options like one-time, recurring, and pledge support. Pledge Pledge donations offer supporters a way to make a bigger impact over time, and CauseVox makes it easy for them to commit to a pledge that fits their goals.

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Pamela Grow

JULY 10, 2024

One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. Make it a practice to routinely scope out new sources of foundation funding. Important: If yours is a small, community-based nonprofit AND is grant-ready, consider outsourcing. Stay the course.

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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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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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