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From Data Deluge to Impactful Decisions: Mastering Data in Grantmaking

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Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The Data Deluge in Grantmaking: Drowning in Information Remember the days when grantmaking relied on paper proposals and handwritten reports? Ready to learn more?

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Visibility and relationships: Effective fundraising for small nonprofits

Candid

Raise your visibility online and beyond Effective fundraising requires more than providing meaningful programming and presenting a well-written grant proposal. You need to ensure that funders can find you online and learn about your work. Perhaps your budget proposal wasn’t detailed enough or there were simply too many applicants.

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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

DNL OmniMedia

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide

Whole Whale

We’ve been through the RFP game countless times and have managed to learn a few things that we wanted to share in an attempt to help you through this frequently convoluted process. Quick pre-RFP conversations are very helpful for getting better quality proposals. Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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In 2002, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified a set of qualities they consider most important for learning in the digital era. A culture of learning, where curiosity is valued and debate encouraged, creates fertile ground for critical thinking. Welcome every proposal. Intimidation is Roundup for creativity.

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Raiser’s Edge NXT Consulting: 5 Steps for Hiring an Expert

DNL OmniMedia

Blackbaud partners familiar with Raiser’s Edge NXT can help nonprofits configure their platform, receive comprehensive training , and develop custom software and integrations. Develop Your RFP Once you know the scope of your project, you can begin developing a request for proposal (RFP). Develop your RFP. Custom development.

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Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

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Now grants managers are expected to digest the minutiae of API integrations, currency exchange protocols, and language translation tools—for an entire organization and for their primary grants database. Once requirements are collected, grants managers have traditionally been instructed to solicit Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from vendors.

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