Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

It's that establishing realistic objectives for your grants program is always a bit of a guessing game. Clearly articulating the objectives — the outcomes — you expect from your grantseeking efforts is a critical component of your overall fundraising plan. Grant funding is critical to the health of many organizations.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

By tracking outcomes and indicators using an automated process and aggregating the data in one place, organizations are able to spend less time on ad-hoc data collection and analysis and more time on important decisions that drive operational effectiveness. Philanthropists are looking for effective stewards of their social investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Last week I summarized Allison Fine's articulate rant about the Gates Foundation.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The real takeaway here is to be able to articulate why the operating reserve fund exists for your organization and clearly understand the purpose, rather than getting hung up on the aggregate number. Reliability of grants and contracts for services. Designate windfalls (one-time grants, gifts).

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Develop Ratio Nonprofit Fund 66

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The real takeaway here is to be able to articulate why the particular reserve funds exist for your organization and what their purposes are, rather than getting hung up on the aggregate number. Reliability of grants and contracts for services. Predictability of pledge collections. Level of dependence on one or two major donors.

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Ratio Develop Disaster Nonprofit 27

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So however it makes sense to move information within your organization, that’s how I would take your input in and aggregate it. So maybe you have a form that you use to have input, a survey you use for input, you have small digital groups that you have input, a Slack channel for input. Who gets to be involved in consultation?

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Management Work Video Slides 90

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Is there a program or project that you want to get off the ground and need to raise some funds for? Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Identify corporate sponsors , grant matches , social media advocates, and peer-to-peer (P2P) advocates.

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