Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2020, nonprofits raised around 20% of their income from grants. Grant funds from foundations, government entities, and corporations help nonprofits diversify their income streams. Below, we’ll cover nine best practices and tips on how to write a winning grant proposal.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

So many nonprofits found 2023 to be particularly stressful. Here are seven ways your team can make sure your nonprofit has a strong financial foundation this year. It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. Identify the top line for each channel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Most nonprofit fundraisers consider general operating support (GOS) to be the holy grail of nonprofit donations. Funding an organization’s mission rather than a specific project or purpose, this unrestricted financial support provides vital flexibility for nonprofits to approach their work as they best see fit.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For member-based nonprofits and associations, figuring out what membership benefits you’ll offer is one of the most important decisions your organization will make. In this article, we’ll cover 22 different types of membership benefits that your nonprofit could potentially offer its members. Let’s get at it!

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Candid

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To reduce the burden on grantees to provide this data, this sector-wide initiative also empowers nonprofits to collect and share staff and board member demographics—one time—in a standardized, reusable, and freely accessible format on their Candid profiles. The process and timing of asking nonprofits for demographic data matters.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 25, 2021

It allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time. He is an accomplished nonprofit CEO, having previously led the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. A Donor Advised Fund (DAF) is a giving vehicle established at a public charity. Share This Post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Update & Review My Work-Life Harmony Plan : In my workshops on personal and organizational wellbeing, I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience. We gave over 50 book talks, fireside chats, webinars, and workshops both in-person and online. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Top Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time. He is an accomplished nonprofit CEO, having previously led the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. EXPLORE OUR RESOURCES Courses Podcasts Webinars Papers Guides. Share This Post!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

Talk to anyone associated with a nonprofit organization, and they will tell you that there isn't enough grant money. Be aware that grant funding is available. And the number of applications submitted increases the likelihood of winning awards. percent in 2017 and by 6.0 percent in 2018. This can be difficult to do.

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Top Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It allows donors to make a charitable contribution, receive an immediate tax deduction and then recommend grants from the fund over time. He is an accomplished nonprofit CEO, having previously led the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. EXPLORE OUR RESOURCES Courses Podcasts Webinars Papers Guides. Share This Post!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

There was a surge in these perspectives and practices during COVID-19 when grantmakers understood even more strongly how nonprofits step up to support the community. Empathy I have had the honor of being both a grant researcher/writer/steward and a re-grantor. The comments sound harsh but I’ve heard both uttered, repeatedly.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Back in the mid-2010s, I served as chair of the selection committee for the Washington, DC region’s biggest award recognizing excellence in nonprofit management. Simply put, the people who write grant applications may be surprised to discover how difficult it can be for respondents to understand and answer their questions.”

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Every year at NTC, we announce all kinds of award winners. First up, a round of applause for the winner of the sixth annual Care2 Impact Prize, which recognizes a campaign or initiative in the nonprofit sector that has made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising, or both. In Memory of Michael DeLong.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

In the last five years, nonprofits have witnessed a significant upswing in the availability of federal funding. Initiatives like the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and other pass-through funding to states and local governments have spurred a surge in nonprofits seeking federal funding.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For nonprofit organizations, it is usually the opposite — their strength and infrastructure increase in health as they grow older. In fact, our founder and CEO, Cynthia Adams, has a free recorded webinar on how grantseeking has changed over the past several years. Older Organizations Seek and Get More Grants. State Grants.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. Qualifications are areas someone might have been educated in, licenses awarded, or a broad set of experiences that would make them well versed or an expert in a particular subject.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. Is your organization considered a content curator?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Grant funding looks beautiful in your income statement, but if you’re not careful, the reporting requirements can be prickly. In our webinar with Rachel Werner and James Spencer from RBW Strategy, they covered steps to help nonprofits that receive—or are looking to start receiving—government grant funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

First there was 10 Nonprofit Text Alert Campaigns. Then 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites. Now 10 Free Nonprofit iPhone Apps. I thought it was important to lay the foundation of group texting and mobile websites for nonprofits before moving into examining how nonprofits are using iPhone Apps: 1. App Name: NPR News.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Anyone responsible for grant management will agree that it can be exhausting to maintain, and takes much-needed time away from other obligations. Top Ten Reasons to Streamline Your Grant Cycle with Automated Processes. What does this mean when applied to the grant cycle? Increase labor productivity. Reduce labor cost.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2017

GrantStation's founder and CEO, Cynthia Adams, recently gave a free 30-minute webinar on the Zen of Grantseeking. In the webinar, she focused on the importance of embracing grantseeking as an integral part of the overall financial approach for your organization. Capacity-building grants are limited and very difficult to get.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 22, 2013

Nonprofit Finance Fund. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. million nonprofits in the United States. But generating a surplus is the primary means for many small nonprofits to accumulate savings.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Future of Nonprofits and Education will be at Dreamforce 2022. Nonprofit and education sector experts. Join us at Dreamforce 2022 to learn how nonprofits of all kinds are building relationships that drive change, optimizing their resources and growing their impact. Solutions that work. It’s like it was meant to be.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Future of Nonprofits and Education will be at Dreamforce 2022 Nonprofit and education sector experts. Join us at Dreamforce 2022 to learn how nonprofits of all kinds are building relationships that drive change, optimizing their resources and growing their impact. Solutions that work. It’s like it was meant to be.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

In the world of nonprofit organizations, board involvement in fundraising is crucial for long-term success. individual giving, major gifts, grants, events, etc.)? grant proposals, solicitation letters, etc.)? As you know, fundraising is an essential component of our work as a nonprofit organization.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . You can be a grant writer or direct mail specialist or fundraising events specialist. A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy: Who’s Job is it? . You’re part of the problem. Why is that? You choose.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2012

This past fall GrantStation and PhilanTech conducted the third semi-annual informal survey of nonprofits, The State of Grantseeking Fall 2011. Between mid-August and early October 2011, 928 nonprofits of various sizes, in different geographies, representing diverse issue areas completed the survey online.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2011

We were recently awarded an expansion of our Google Grant to $40K a month so some of our new constituency comes from there. Maybe they registered for a webinar. We're getting better at asking for donations in our non-appeal communications like all the other nonprofits do. Register for a webinar?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Competition for limited awards. Researching and finding mission-specific grants. Based on this, one could paraphrase nonprofits' grantseeking experience as too much time spent searching for too few awards — ouch! Competition for Limited Awards: Tap into a Database of More than 8,000 Funders. Register now.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2014

John Hayden puts together suggestions from nonprofit experts, who share their favorite apps for managing #GivingTuesday campaigns. Speaking of winning, congratulations to 501 Commons , voted Nonprofit of the Year by Seattle Business magazine! There''s an app for that - actually, there''s many! Redesigning your website?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2014

Grant-making foundations can get a year of access for an unlimited number of users at a discount of 25 percent. PhilanTrack for Foundations is an online grants management system that helps foundations manage all grant-related information in a centralized online location. PhilanTrack for Foundations is now available on TechSoup.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 25, 2011

We were recently awarded an expansion of our Google Grant to $40K a month so some of our new constituency comes from there. Maybe they registered for a webinar. We're getting better at asking for donations in our non-appeal communications like all the other nonprofits do. Register for a webinar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award. Year in Review.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2010

For the third consecutive year, Adobe and TechSoup Global have joined together to award three $1000 cash grants plus Adobe software to nonprofit organizations and libraries that demonstrate outstanding or innovative use of Adobe products to increase their impact and further the missions of their organizations.

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