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What are Matching Grants and Why You Should Want Them

GrantNews

Some funders require grant seekers to raise a portion of the needed funding. The applicant organization must show evidence of need and a commitment to raising matching funds. Funding will be for upgrading facilities and operations, lowering costs, and greater focus on more efficient use of resources.

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What are the Biggest Challenges in Getting (and Keeping) Your Nonprofit’s Staff and Volunteers?

Blue Avocado

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” It has been increasingly difficult to not only recruit and retain skilled staff, but just to get them to the interview process! ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

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How to Engage and Retain DAF Donors

NonProfit PRO

Here are eight ways to engage and retain DAF donors. With no signs of slowing down, DAF donors are a big source of donations for nonprofits.

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5 Revenue Streams to Strengthen Nonprofit Sustainability

Ann Green's Nonprofit

This is especially important now because of the current chaos of eliminating (and then not eliminating, at least for now) federal grant funding. This guest post by John Killoran covers a variety of revenue sources to help you diversify your funding. Automating communications to retain recurring donors. The good news?

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Your New Budgeting Superpower: Program-Based Budgeting

Blackbaud

As a nonprofit finance leader, you are constantly aware of the many different pulls on your funding availability. This is where your fund accounting system can help you get the granularity you need from your budgeting process to make data-driven decisions. One program could use more headcount to serve more people.

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Fasten Your Seat Belts! 2025 Will Be a Bumpy Ride…Here’s Help!

Pamela Grow

of new donors are being retained year-to-date, and even repeat donor retention decreased by 4.6%. Things like creating a new program to fit within the constraints of a major funding opportunity from a certain grantmaker. Fundraising has been showing troubling trends for a while now. Only 13.8%

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9 Tips for Recruiting and Retaining Peer-to-Peer Participants

OneCause

They’re the ones who sign up to raise funds on behalf of your organization – driving donations from their own networks of friends and family. So, let’s look at some proven tips to help your nonprofit recruit and retain more peer-to-peer participants. Give participants a good story to tell.