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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer? Q: What kind of folks have asked about becoming a grant writer?

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What is Corporate Giving? The Ultimate Guide to Earning More

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Certain corporate giving programs like volunteer grants encourage employees to volunteer with nonprofits. As a result, nonprofits not only earn money from the volunteer grants but also gain a new base of dedicated volunteers. Volunteer grants function very similarly to matching gifts. More volunteer sign-ups. New partnerships.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Using "Customer/Jobs" and "Classes" Utilities

Tech Soup

QuickBooks is a relational database, and as such it offers a few ways to flag (or relate) transactions such as invoices, cash receipts, bills, cash disbursements, and journal entries to Customer/Jobs (funding sources) and Classes (programs). Let's say that the XYZ Foundation awards your nonprofit a grant for 2011.

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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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4 Examples Proving Nonprofits Should Offer Trust as a Service (TaaS)

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How they make money: To make their money, the Rainforest Alliance mostly relies on royalties from certification, grants from governments and foundations, and donations from individuals. A large part of their revenue comes from membership subscriptions followed by grants and donations. The website was founded early 2011.

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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

The organization uses donated Intuit Quickbooks for Nonprofits from TechSoup to track grants and automate payroll so that it can help more and more kids. She told me that when the organization started in 2011, "We were doing our accounting on handwritten spreadsheets and then graduated to Excel. Creating grant reports.

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Upcoming Webinar March 29: Mapping Philanthropy - Data Visualization for Good

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During this hour, the Foundation Center's George Ford and Jake Garcia will take a look at how grant seekers can use the interactive maps and charts in Foundation Directory Online , the Foundation Center’s grant seeking database for nonprofits, to identify prospective funders. Register for the webinar here.

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