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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

In grant proposals and pitches, they want you to predict the future and show how, with your eloquent promises and plans for impact, you can best provide them the assurance of certainty. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

DNL OmniMedia

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Difficulties with data transformation: Data transformation is the process data from different sources will need to undergo in order for you to view it all in the same format or structure, thus streamlining your analysis tasks.

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The AI Writing Prompt Formula and Prompt Ideas

Whole Whale

It may be hard to believe but there is a near future when your organization will likely be hiring a AI Prompt Architect to build custom applications for your staff and stakeholders. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Tips for Adopting a Trust-Based Philanthropy Approach

sgEngage

Despite its best intentions, traditional philanthropy has inhibited its grantee relationships by perpetuating structures and practices that treat grantees as supplicants rather than partners. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.

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Tips to Prepare for Effective Grant Seeking

ASU Lodestar Center

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. The science aspect refers to the comprehension of the technical structure upon which those words are arranged” (Blanchard & Bullock, 2010). Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

Amy Sample Ward

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. Ready to learn, prior to this year, had 3 or 4 applicants. They are going to look for innovation solutions.

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Foundations and Nonprofits: What Does it Mean to “Speak the Same Language”?

Connection Cafe

If you give us a logic model or a theory of change format, we work hard to not only embrace your words but to put them in the right rows and columns. The fit between mission and program is among the most frequent topics on applications. For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven.