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. Another benchmark to consider when making applications is organizational age.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Tip 1: Categorize your revenue types, such as fundraising, grants, and earned income. Make Sure You’re Ready for Your Next Government Grant Government grants are a great addition to any nonprofit’s balance sheet. If you are not prepared for the requirements, a government grant can create more problems than they solve.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Genie is Salesforce’s new real-time data platform which can combine stakeholder and engagement data from any cloud or application into unified profiles, which can then be automated. Organizations are able to react across all touchpoints to deliver engagement, collaboration, and data intelligence in real-time.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

We strive to build data-based evidence into each grant application, and we expect it to continue to help secure funding. In November 2023, we received a grant from the Capital One Foundation to support our housing and financial empowerment programming.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2018

Like many years in the past, 2017 continued to bring significant change to the way foundations approach their grantmaking, collaborate with each other, collaborate with their grant partners, collaborate with the public and private sectors and how they are utilizing technology and data to drive their strategy forward.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

Software to help measure impact: In order to provide the reporting and trends data to stakeholders, today’s nonprofit needs more than just Excel to manage data and identify insights. This is a chance to develop more robust listening systems with micro-moments of feedback,” she said, such as identifying friction in the application process.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

It's that establishing realistic objectives for your grants program is always a bit of a guessing game. The State of Grantseeking™ Report spotlights current trends in the field. As quickly as things change today, you know how important it is to stay on top of these trends, adjusting your own expectations accordingly.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

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. Here are some ideas to rejuvenate a shrinking pipeline: Collaborate. Does it convey a unique advantage to potential applicants?

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Grant Proposal And that’s not all. ChatGPT can also help with the time-consuming grant writing process. For example, you can gather insights on donor behavior, identify trends, and generate recommendations for improving fundraising campaigns. For more specificity, simply provide ChatGPT with more relevant details.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Online forums and communities with members-only access can also provide a platform for people to exchange ideas and collaborate. Access to Research and Data Access to research reports, market trends, and extensive research libraries is another perk that your organization should seriously consider making available for members.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, if you were creating a job description for a development associate at your nonprofit, you might have a purpose statement that says: “The development associate will source and recommend grant applications to the development manager to ensure that the organization is exploring all of the funding resources available.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Nonprofit Solutions, Sage Business Solutions. A growing trend among organizations is to get out of the business of owning servers entirely. Instead, they're either renting them from a managed service provider or moving to Software as a Service (SaaS) for common applications.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

However, as recent patient trends have demonstrated, hospitals have little control over how many un- or under-insured patients seek their services. In contrast, making grants to community nonprofits allows hospitals to proactively honor their community benefit commitments in a directed fashion. Grants often have a multiplier effect.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2017

We have been learning from both front line fundraisers and the organizations that fund them that stating intended outcomes in your pitch conversations and in your grant applications is becoming increasingly important so that funders can clearly see what specific results your organization is driving towards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins. Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3 We collaborated with organizations that are dedicated to making a positive difference in the world to design and implement the Pepsi Refresh Project.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

These high-level discussions focused on key thought leadership topics and trends shaping the industry. The fit between mission and program is among the most frequent topics on applications. Literally, put results first, whether in grant discussions and decisions, program design and analysis, or anything else.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. The Foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking system, and to expedite the timing, grants managers completed applications on behalf of island employees. “I

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2012

As you may know, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization's mission. You can also register for our upcoming webinar presented in collaboration with the Foundation Center, Toolkit Essentials: How Do I Find Funders Interested in My Cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Stefani gave an overview of health care technology trends and some projects that Google is working on. ” Stefani pointed out there are important trends that are impacting healthcare information online. They had four collaborative research projects, ideas were there but money not before the Icebucket Challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter and Facebook have been crucial in recruiting new pro bono consultants and connecting with nonprofits that could benefit from our Service Grant projects. Dupe: Taproot is hub for new ideas and collaboration. We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics.

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

But a lot of the questions and issues described in Sidford's paper are as applicable on the level of individual programs or institutional priorities as they are for funders and foundations. The exhibition project was grant-funded, and it was specifically targeted to support African-American artists and audiences.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising. Grant writing is a skill, and it’s also a full time job.

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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. Collaborate with Partners No organization can meet the evolving needs of a community alone. Grantmaking organizations must adapt to remain relevant and effective.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking Nonprofit Research Collaborative Releases First Report Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on November 29th, 2010 The Nonprofit Research Collaborative released its first report today. renewed contracts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

The growth of place-based approaches to community funding correlates with social trends that have been developing over the last decade. This is where cloud technology can help: by removing geographical barriers to collaboration and making large volumes of knowledge easy to capture and share across vast networks of people.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2019

With the massive level of generosity and funding that we saw this year and in 2017, is it possible that the trend will continue in 2019? Here are the five trends I see having the most impact on foundations in this coming year, starting with these new potential partners: Partnerships and Data.

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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. Run reports on just members, rather than your entire supporter base, to assess trends. Smart reporting. Timeline highlights. Custom fields.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. Robin’s asking, “Writing a grant, how can you report impact and add measures to success with looking for funding for a pilot program?” Grant proposals.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 14, 2023

To collectively achieve greater impact you must collaborate with stakeholders, share information, and learn from and use your data. Through this program, Salesforce grants qualified nonprofit and educational organizations 10 free technology licenses. I’m excited to share that the new Nonprofit Cloud innovation will be included.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In our analog world we are too focused on processes that aren’t scaleable or shareable – meaning we have a lot of meetings, we write things down on paper, and when someone that wasn’t in our meeting or isn’t in our town needs to collaborate with us, we have to invest in catching them up and recreating the work we have already done.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Or there’s a second bucket that I’m really sort of anecdotally seeing a strong movement or a strong trend in the community. And so it was a collaborative effort of, you know, if we can get in-kind, then we can add, you know, this conference room back in that we had to cut. And so it’s a back and forth. Brian: Yeah.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition to representing Candid, I was there to learn about trends in the European philanthropic sector and explore opportunities for collaboration. As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I think it’s in February every year, called the Nonprofit Trends Report. And this year’s trends report, and you can download it for free at the URL at the bottom, has some really interesting stats about the effectiveness of communications teams. People people. I think it gets talked about sort of around the edges sometimes.

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