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bbcon 2023: The Must-Attend Grantmaking Sessions for Leaders

sgEngage

Mastering Dashboards in Blackbaud Grantmaking: Insider Tips and Best Practices from the Experts Go beyond the typical Blackbaud University course and learn about two instructors’ favorite functionality in our grantmaking solution.

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Grant writer as chief collaborative officer

ASU Lodestar Center

Andrew Schwartzberg , Director of Grants. Your grant proposal is due in a mere six hours and you are very confident that you have all your ducks in a row. Ultimately, the answer is: you never should have gotten into this predicament in the first place, because preparing a grant application should be an inter-departmental endeavor.

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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

One such data story is this: Though long suspected, we finally have the data to confirm that 39 percent of our grant applications are duplicative across funders. In this blog post, we'll review the research results, discuss implications, and identify the soul-searching needed to move forward in new alignment with our values.

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Zoom Cameras On or Off?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. Cameras off does not mean meeting participants are disengaged.

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An Uncommon Year for Giving: GivingUSA Data [WEBINAR]

Top Nonprofits

In this session, Laura MacDonald, Chair of the Giving USA Foundation and Founder of Benefactor Group, will discuss data and trends from 2020, a year in which the environment for giving was certainly uncommon. During her tenure she also served as a senior development officer in the University’s $1.2 billion capital campaign.

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When Looking to Diversify Your Development Office, Widen Your Lens

Bloomerang

Another aspect of the discussion is the business case for hiring for fundraising success. Prior to 2011, the majority of my career was spent at small and mid-size organizations, where a large part of the funding came from foundations, corporations, and government grants.

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Research Friday: Who grants the most? Who gets the most?

ASU Lodestar Center

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Who grants the most? It's the biggest both in terms of assets and grants made in the past several years.

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