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6 Tips to Retain Volunteers

Blackbaud

It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more important, retain volunteers by valuing their time, effort, and skills. If you’re ready to make a plan to retain your volunteers, start with these six tips. Ciconte and Jeanne Jacob propose TheVolunteer Bill of Rights in Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide.

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What are Matching Grants and Why You Should Want Them

GrantNews

Though there are challenges to meeting the criteria in order to apply for matching grants, the end result can yield a much greater return on the time and effort you put into writing and submitting this kind of grant proposal. Primary consideration for Foundation funding will be for proposals utilizing matching grants.

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GivingUSA 2024 | What Small Nonprofits Need to Know

Pamela Grow

Retain staff. Develop a system where you’re sending out proposals or letters of inquiry to new foundations on a weekly basis. One that includes realistic goals for grants and corporate support, individual support, program support, and events. Important: Invest in donor stewardship and reliable data. And a budget for it.

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Must-Have Members of Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Team

Greater Giving

A grants specialist will handle all aspects of grant fundraising, focusing on submitting proposals to secure grant money from foundations, government agencies, corporations, and more. They’ll also need strong writing and communication skills to create proposals and interact with grantmakers.

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Write Your Next Grant Proposal with OneNote

Peak Proposals

Writing a grant proposal has several stages. Managing each of these stages requires a system of some kind and one or more tools to save content and permit collaborative development of the proposal. tool that you can use to manage and write a grant proposal is Microsoft OneNote. OneNote has been around since 2003.

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How to Win Grants in 2025

Think and Ink Grants

Todays environment demands more than just a well-written proposal. Measure and Communicate Success Effectively To earn and retain grant funding, organizations must provide clear evidence of their impact. Winning grants, especially in 2025, requires organizations to operate at the highest level of excellence and strategy.

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A to Z Grant Terminology You’ll Want to Know

Grant Writer Team

In fact, utilizing proper grant terminology is vital to the success of any grant proposal. While we admit to taking poetic license with one or two of the terms below, the following list of A to Z key grant terms will help make your grant proposal even better. There MUST be a budget for writing your grant proposal.

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