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How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

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As a grants manager, you know how important it is to have a clear and efficient grantee application process. Getting your leadership on board with streamlining your grantee application may require some planning. This will help you identify areas that need improvement and the benefits of streamlining your application.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. Who decides what is measured?

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Trends in Grantmaking: Putting Equitable Grantmaking into Practice

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If you aren’t seeing a diverse set of applicants, is there something in the way the job description is written or the places where it is advertised that should be reconsidered? Review your applications through an equity lens after each grant cycle. Yes, training on empathy and recognizing bias is important, but it needs to go deeper.

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5 Trends in Grantmaking that We Think Have Staying Power

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Sometimes trends are purely of the moment—a fun way to mark the past, like shag carpet and 8-track tapes. But sometimes trends are the beginning of an idea, just starting to take shape, that will become the norm in a few years or a few decades. This trend is not a new idea or even an idea that is only a few years old.

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Trends in Grantmaking: Achieving Lasting Impact Through Trust-Based Philanthropy

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And that work can come in a variety of forms: work by your grantee to fill out long applications with questions about programs, finances, staff, sustainability, and internal controls that get read and then filed. It also helps them stay focused, instead of having to manage new funding applications each year. Trust must be earned.

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Prioritizing authentic connections through trust-based philanthropy 

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TBP practices such as multi-year unrestricted funding and simplified application and reporting processes are the logical outcome of treating grantees as our partners. Accessible and transparent applications : Our application form is simple, and the process is laid out clearly so applicants know exactly what to expect.

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Trends in Grantmaking: Workplace Wellness for Grantmakers and the Nonprofits They Support?

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For individuals, Meico also suggests spending some time evaluating your inputs and how they are making you feel. Manage your entire grantmaking workflow, from online grant applications through payments Find out how Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT fits your organization.

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