Candid

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This article synthesizes this collective wisdom from grants management professionals’ reflections. This includes what they learned from changes made to improve transparency and streamline grants processes that can inform how to improve overall practices in ways that improve equitable and efficient practices well into the future.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

The reality is that the higher education pipeline is even smaller than what demographic statistics show. They will need to make financial incentives to attend—especially grants and scholarships—more robust and communicate how an education at their school prepares students for the future. What makes you stand out?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

utilize data to build cutting-edge grant requests. identify current trends that can assist you in your 2016 and 2017 planning. If you aren't using real-world benchmarks in your grant applications, your organization will have a more difficult time positioning itself among other similar organizations.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

It takes various components to make an organization run effectively, and by properly utilizing donor data and information, organizations can track interactions, estimate future performance, address potential concerns, and see donor retention trends. It’s impossible to improve something that can’t be measured.

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Candid

JANUARY 16, 2024

Full disclosure: I’m biased in favor of nonprofits on the subject of grant applications and reporting. Over the last decade, I’ve watched an increasing number of current and prospective funders require demographic data as part of their grant application processes. Let’s dig in to why.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

To fully analyze your audience’s behavior, demographics, and preferences, you could use your data warehouse to look at data from events, online interactions, giving histories, and more. For a holistic view of your programs’ performance, you might pull together information about program outcomes and participant demographics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2020

By Grant Hensel , CEO of Nonprofit Megaphone – an agency that specializes in Google Grant management for nonprofits. What is the Google Grant? The Google Ad Grant is one of the most powerful, yet under-appreciated tools in nearly every nonprofit’s marketing toolbox. Example Use Cases: Google Grant Case Studies.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Even as demographics change and public participation in the arts shifts away from these Euro-traditional formats, the money still flows down the old pathways. The exhibition project was grant-funded, and it was specifically targeted to support African-American artists and audiences. He got to see the museum process from the inside.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Digital marketing consists of advertising campaigns that include targeted research and outreach segmented by geographic location, demographics, specific interests, and more. Video ads Display ads Native ads Email marketing Geo targeting and geofencing Mobile applications. With over 3.5 Learn more here.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Knowledge work in philanthropy is a big umbrella, expanding exponentially over the last decade to cover more of what grants professionals do on a regular basis. Sure, grants professionals can be masterful with technology, great at planning out a timeline, and really good at ensuring administrative alignment across siloes.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2022

For more insights into important nonprofit trends and key strategies, all driven by data, download The State of Nonprofit Fundraising 2022 report. Getting a government grant requires a huge amount of effort in research and grant-writing, and these programs often have long waiting periods, making it difficult to budget around them.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

This could be as simple as adjusting your guidelines to compensate for changing economics or as complicated as creating new grants and programs to meet those needs. Manage your entire grantmaking workflow, from online grant applications through payments Find out how Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT fits your organization.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Between email solicitation, direct mail, major donors, and grant-writing, the vast majority of nonprofits will weather the economic hard times. But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

The silver lining of what (at first glance) seems like a very negative trend is that nonprofits have lots of room to make a positive impression on new donors. Demographic factors: Donors who fit the organization’s target demographic are more likely to give. And don’t forget about your own network!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Nonprofit funding comes from various sources—regular and major gifts , grants, in-kind donations, corporate sponsorships , planned gifts, and eCommerce sales are a few of the most common. Store details about members’ demographics, professions, locations, networking connections, and more. Smart reporting. Timeline highlights.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

Now is the time of year when blog editors worldwide ask their writers for predictions and trends for the coming year. I thought Mary Beth Westmoreland’s latest piece on npENGAGE did a great job summarizing the high-level technology trends we often see and hear about in the nonprofit sector.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. Grant proposals. Does that make sense? Sample metrics.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Financial Independence: Relying solely on donations, grants, or fundraising events can be precarious for organizations. Ultimately, the decision to charge annual or monthly membership dues will depend on your nonprofit’s specific goals, member demographics, and financial needs.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2016

Here, you can find your audience’s demographics, when they’re on Facebook and the posts that they like best. These are great for tracking big trends, but you can also utilize them locally. There are a multitude of free social listening websites and applications that organizations can make use of nowadays. Always stay consistent.

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