Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Organize : Once you have clarified each item, organize them into projects and next actions. GTD is a powerful productivity system that can help you to get more done and reduce stress. As we move into the age of AI, we propose an evolution of the 2-minute rule: The AI 2-minute rule. MODEL: requires Read.ai

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This AI writing assistant will help you write appeals, proposals, thank-you letters and a lot more. It can even help write your case for support. . 3: History of the Organization – Give a brief summary of the founding of your organization and a short history of its work to date. #4: Why should people care?

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Qgiv

APRIL 10, 2021

Need help writing a fundraising letter? This could entail having them provide staff to help carry out the event, pay for the event venue, or pay for catering. This [season or time period], we’re aiming to raise [amount] to fund [project]. However, contributions of [amount] would help us fund [sports-focused goal].

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Unlike your standard fundraiser, a capital campaign focuses on JUST the project at hand, and the impact that project will have on those you serve. Money raised during a capital campaign can only be used for that project. It would positively enable your organization to help more people or animals. Volunteer involvement.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. This 6-step GRANTS Writing Formula can help! This is the easiest way forward as you will have an immediate template for your grant project. The reason is that research anchors and validates the entire reason for your project. Why do this?

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

The business case presents your proposal for change. Show leadership how better reporting and business intelligence can give them more clarity into revenue, including reporting on which programs helped drive revenue and which aren’t yielding results. A solid plan contains: the project structure. Now is the time to talk numbers.

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Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

Grants aren’t always easy to get, but with a well-written proposal, you can blow your competition out of the water. Grants are usually given for a specific purpose, like a project or initiative your nonprofit is planning. These grants can be difficult to get and require a well-thought-out grant proposal. What is a grant?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2016

When your organization needs funding for a project, how do you approach the grants seeking process ? Do you have procedures in place to help guide your research? Fortunately, this post will offer tools and resources that can help your organization adopt a consistent and thoughtful process that will keep your grants pipeline full.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 11, 2022

To help you successfully create and sustain a major donor program, we’ve pulled together key takeaways from this workshop with Charles Burge and Chanda Lockhart. He loves coaching people and helping them find the best way to develop major donors within their organization. About The Presenters. Guidelines for Major Donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. So how do we propose to pay for it? This can help you get out a blogging rut.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The foundation plans to fund 20 plus projects with new ideas on how to increase participation in U.S. They're looking for anyone working on projects that: Bring more transparency to money and politics. No project budget is required for the initial entry. All project ideas will be posted publicly online at newschallenge.org.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. We created this guide to help you build just that. Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Fundraising plan summary.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. A core group of interns assembled by Siembieda-Gribben will go on to develop the winning team's idea, using an API designed by Lift Projects for Zero1. The Teams Get to Work.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

The Social by Social Game really took off at Net Tuesday this week when some 20 participants invented a south London borough, created a set of project ideas for better health, happiness and the environment, and then went on to plan how social technology could yield these social benefits. All within 90 minutes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Summary of ROI. There are times I learn of new social media outlets, 3 rd party technologies or methods, and if I want to apply something new to the organization, I do my due-diligence and experiment with it, strategize how it can add value to the organization, and lastly I propose it to our executive team.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? What if there was a tool that could help in getting rid of your writer’s block and producing draft after draft on command?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2017

Many grantmakers are eager to engage in conversations on ways your organization can "shake things up" to help identify new approaches to ongoing problems. This is a summary of their story. You have to also demonstrate that the approach that you propose to address the issue is built on that understanding. Register now.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2016

But when you fit the right funders to the right projects, the results can literally be life changing. This process can be time consuming, but it is a useful tool in discovering funders that are a good fit for your project or program. Summary of a Grant Strategy. to expand the field of potential funders.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. Sounded perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 Finally an interesting question over at Netsquared from Cauzoo, " Bells and Whistles, Do They Help you Get Heard ?" ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. era websites.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

I’m reposting her summary below. Michelle: Came from a college-level academic background but a side project in grant-writing was very satisfying. I moderated a panel with the above title yesterday at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. The list of links she mentions is at [link]. So You Want to Be a Consultant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’m honored to be included on a panel proposed by him, along with Carrie Rice , called “ How to Conquer Technology Distraction and Burnout and Be More Present for Yourself, Team, and Organization for the 2018 Nonprofit Technology Conference. I was seeking a way to combine my interest in technology and helping people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

The role of these projects with all your programs and initiatives is to help you identify and strategize the right individuals and target audience for specific types of gifts , as well as how much to ask for and who to prioritize. Remember, start by defining goals in order to plan strategic next steps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

So here’s the summary for Chapter 3. At Omidyar Network there’s been an effort to write proposals for 9 $5,000 grants. Watching the collaboration of people across time zones developing these proposals has really been inspiring to me. Be Helpful. I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

The organization I helped found as Colorectal Cancer Coalition in 2005 officially became Fight Colorectal Cancer on Monday, March 6, 2011. Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We’re still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally “out there&# and is well-received. Sounded perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2006

Jessica Hoffmann at the New Standard wrote a great article explaining what is going on, which I recommend you read because the history is long and complex, but here is my summary based on the article. protested against the incinerator, the city dropped the project. Go to the FARM NOW , to help keep vigil. The Harbor Dept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2007

agree credibility clients don't understand ICT, the accreditaton would help client help organizations focus their resources more effectively accountability professionalism. Summary: Still trying to figure out how to professionalize ourselves outside of this room. Will revisit these questions to see if there is any change.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. Butterfield was speaking from the floor about the proposed energy bill on the hill. The details of your emails are critical. What is your real output?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. How can I help? Where are they helpful? . – [Steven] That was really cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

For example, can you get feedback asynchronously on a proposal or concept before the meeting? The meeting facilitator can also facilitate these activities by preparing a summary at the meeting. Having a buddy system helps remove the sense of isolation or distance from those in the room. This also saves everyone a lot of time!

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Forum One

JANUARY 7, 2009

In addition to having participated in a several hundred RFPs, we have also helped many clients write RFPs and have also produced RFP guidelines for several large organizations. Most propose an outline which includes the following: * Summary / Key Information. This leads to proposals that are not useful. Background.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

A Nonprofit’s Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites A well-designed, user-friendly website can help you engage new members, raise money, and communicate with decision-makers. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right. Read more about the book here.).

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

A Nonprofit’s Guide to Building Simple, Low-Cost Websites A well-designed, user-friendly website can help you engage new members, raise money, and communicate with decision-makers. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right. Read more about the book here.).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

That’s what got me started, writing grants for environmental projects. That’s why I’m passionate about really helping others do this stuff and get the most they can get for grant funding with the least amount of time preferably. MS means I have a Master’s of Science in natural resource management. Now, the IRS.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern.

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