Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

GivingTuesday presents an invaluable opportunity for nonprofits to capture the generosity of first-time, spontaneous givers. As you button up your GivingTuesday campaign, keep these factors in mind with the goal of securing the first gifts of spontaneous donors who are already aware of your organization and primed to give.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Since you probably raise a good percentage of your fundraising goal during the month of December, you have to make the time count! Instead, give yourself a solid 4-6 week time frame (pre-December) to hammer down your year-end fundraising details so you’re ready to go on kickoff day.

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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. Important: If yours is a small, community-based nonprofit AND is grant-ready, consider outsourcing. Clay Buck, CFRE, joins us to present Focus on What Matters (A data-inspired look at setting fundraising priorities).

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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. They focus on helping nonprofits maximize their limited resources, bringing specialized knowledge in grant writing, budgeting, and project presentation. Funds for Programs Addressing Community Needs !

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This way, readers understand what youre fighting for and the goals you want to accomplish. Be as specific as possible, including details like dates, fundraising goals, and the impact donors will make if they give]. If you have the means, would you be willing to donate [specific amount] to help us reach that goal?

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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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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? Set a goal and budget. Decide on a goal that’s specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART).

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Creating a nonprofit board presentation can be nerve-wracking if you’ve never presented before, especially with how essential your presentation may be to your organization’s work. Decide your goals Before you start building your presentation, you need to know what goal you want to accomplish with your board members.

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GrantNews

AUGUST 16, 2024

That’s why we’re sharing six valuable tips to help your nonprofit get ready for a successful grant interview! Present Accurate Data The social constructs of philanthropy are shifting, with many grant funders adopting an investment mindset. You can illustrate this by presenting a clear plan with successful outcomes.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 7, 2022

But the fact is, successfully securing and implementing grant funding takes time and effort; to be successful in the business of grants, you need to put equal emphasis on the 5 Rs of Grant Writing : Readiness, Research, Relationships, wRiting, and Reporting. Now you are ready to dig in on funder research, but where do you start?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Pay attention to the donor/attendee experience, then weigh out the potential cost and get ready to PLAN, PLAN, PLAN! But if the event meets your goals for revenue and awareness, it might be ok. Typically, a Heartstrings Event has one main goal – to ask people for support. Point blank.

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

To effectively research grant opportunities, individuals should consider the following steps: Identify potential funding sources that align with their organizations mission or project goals. Objectives Outlines the goals the grant aims to achieve. Understanding their mission will help align your project with their goals.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 4, 2024

Program-based budgets will allow your organization to make more precise cash flow projections and more appropriate fundraising goals for the year so that your organization can plan to accomplish more, not less. A dashboard is a snapshot of the organization’s progress towards its major financial, fundraising, and mission impact goals.

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DoJiggy

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Follow these steps to ensure your event runs smoothly and meets your fundraising goals. Define Your Fundraising Goal Be specific about what the paddle raise funds will support. Setting a clear goal motivates attendees to participate and gives them confidence in their impact.

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Allied Grant Writers

JANUARY 25, 2025

Proposals should be tailored to align with each grant programs goals and priorities to increase the likelihood of successful funding. Tips for Securing Grant Funding Crafting a successful grant application requires attention to detail and presenting your programs goals and impact. Ready to take the next step?

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GrantNews

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Ensure Eligibility – Are You Grant-Ready? After completing your FREE Grant Readiness Assessment you will discover what type of grants you are eligible for. Having a concisely written mission statement prepared before applying for a grant is the best way to ensure you are presenting a coherent plan to funders.

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GrantNews

OCTOBER 9, 2024

This season presents a great opportunity with a diverse array of funding options. The goal is to facilitate progress in diversifying entrepreneurship and empowering a more diverse group of investors. Unfortunately, sky-high inflation, high interest rates, and systematic barriers continue to hold many business owners back.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This is augmented with what was found was needed via interviews with the makers of digital solutions and what was learned from quantitative research on the readiness of civil society organizations to develop technology. The goal of a framework for building public good technology is not to evaluate the quality of technology.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Start with five to eight fundraising ambassadors with a goal of understanding them and how they can best engage in ways that will make them feel great while raising money for your organization. Just asking ambassadors to spread the word and “help us reach our fundraising goal” won’t lead anywhere. and achieve their goals.

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Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To successfully implement changes to your grantmaking application, you need to communicate the benefits of data-driven and user-centered design to your leadership, tie the benefits to your organization’s overall goals, and involve your leadership in the decision-making process. For example: Does your application represent your mission?

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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But big goals cost big money. With your plan in place and your infrastructure built, you’re ready to start fundraising (so Stage 3). Nonprofits need a team of people who care deeply about the work – pulling together and working toward a goal. Please give, so we can reach our goal of $10,000.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

You have a compelling case to make; chances are, the right people are ready to listen. I'll be delivering a new presentation. The goal is to raise $5 million! If you've sat in on my Audience-Centric Fundraising presentation, this isn't new to you. Here's my three-point strategy. Marketing Your Cause 1.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Many organizations are experts at driving traffic to their online donation forms, but plenty struggle to actually secure donations and reach their fundraising goals. As mentioned, your primary goal in designing your online donation page is to ensure that supporters follow through on making their donations. Enable recurring giving.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 15, 2014

A couple of weeks back, I presented on a webinar with TechSoup discussing the process and challenges of moving your organization to Office 365 without leaning too heavily on an outside consultant. Today I'd like to help you decide if your organization is ready to make the change. You can view that full webinar below.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

With a plan, you’ll: Be more productive because you’ll be working on tasks that move you toward your goals. But there is no time like the present! But … be ready to do it next year. Set an Impact Goal. What they need is an Impact Goal which is a beacon to guide you through your journey and ward off distractions.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

MAY 30, 2023

Precautionary Note: The Risk of Immature AI Technologies Precautionary Note: The Risk of Immature AI Technologies But with these advancements come certain concerns, notably the rapid rollout of AI technologies that may not yet be fully mature or ready for deployment​.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

In the nonprofit context, Instructional Design helps you ensure that the educational materials you create are not just informative but also closely aligned with your organizational goals and the specific challenges you and your stakeholders face. You can also conduct a training inventory to identify existing resources that can be repurposed.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 4, 2021

And if they are truly passionate about the same cause that you are, then they should be ready and excited to become a part of the solution—with you there only to help make that happen for them. Your nonprofit is just the vehicle for a sponsor to achieve their own goals. How can your nonprofit organization make that happen?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

Both sellers and supporters will get behind a clear goal. Set Tangible and Achievable Goals Do think about goals on two fronts: for the group and for the individual. The overall goal is the north star for everyone involved in the fundraiser. The overall goal is the north star for everyone involved in the fundraiser.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 17, 2024

As you look at your grant management software options, you want to include your future goals as well as your current processes. Make sure you know what that will look like for your GMS, even if you aren’t ready for those features yet. Check out our guide for helping you make a plan for the future of your grantmaking.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 8, 2024

These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue. An organization might do a fundraising campaign specifically for new equipment or apply for a grant that aligns clearly to their goals.

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Strategic Grants

JANUARY 23, 2024

It’s a new year, which means new goals, updated strategies and fresh professional development opportunities. When it comes to fundraising and grants especially, having an internal resource that can listen, capture key messages, and present those in both proposals and when speaking to internal and external stakeholders, is essential.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

When to Start Thinking About Getting Paid If you expect to have money coming in beyond what you need to cover program expenses during your budget’s fiscal year, you are ready to think about a nonprofit salary for yourself. Put your nonprofit salary goal on hold while you work on building your donor base.

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Greater Giving

MAY 28, 2021

When an unpredictable, sudden change in planning sweeps you up and carries you away, it’s important to stay flexible and ready to act. It is their largest fundraiser of the year, with as many as four hundred guests and a typical goal to raise $160k or more. How can they draw the same amount of interest during an online program?

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

OCTOBER 3, 2021

This strategy involves going to large conferences and events in your organization’s mission field with the goal of meeting new donors at the event. You can simply go as an attendee, or you can try to be a presenter or roundtable participant, or you can rent a booth in the vendor area, if it’s the right kind of conference.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 27, 2021

Their development teams work long hours to meet aggressive fundraising goals, but their sense of urgency is not about meeting payroll and paying for other immediate needs. When you talk to donors, you talk about your organization’s present and you also talk about your organization’s future. It’s a long-term goal.

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