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Five tips to leverage grant writing at your association

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We do a lot of federal grants,” says Chuck Everhart System Software Manager of the IACP and Nimble AMS customer. . Keep reading for five simple grant writing tips to level up your association or get started. . Five grant writing tips to boost association non-dues revenue . Do your research. Network in your community.

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Improving Student Communications in Your Scholarship Process

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While it can be time-consuming and occasionally overwhelming, it is also incredibly rewarding to congratulate them on their scholarship awards, collect post-acceptance information and thank-you messages, and share those messages with donors. Below are a few tips on how to streamline communication with students for efficiency and engagement.

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How to find your first prospective donors: Tips for new nonprofits 

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One major obstacle is that foundations are reluctant to award grants to emerging organizations. Simultaneously, make sure your nonprofit has in place a clearly stated mission, vision, and values , as well as sound infrastructure: a qualified team, internal governance and management systems, technology, and partners.

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10 Tips for Better Grant Management Processes

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Review requirements before applying for or accepting awards to ensure that you understand what is necessary to effectively manage the grant and if the grant lifecycle is a good fit for your organization. Adopt a robust fund accounting system. The OMB’s Uniform Guidance (i.e.,

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5 Tips for Effective Healthcare Grantmaking

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Once you have that outlined, see where you can connect your systems through APIs to pull data in and across platforms. This cuts down on errors and time spent on manual data entry while also decreasing the time it takes for actionable data to get in your system. Strengthen your collaboration with grant partners.

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5 Ways to Empower Scholarship Reviewers

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Reviewers are a critical piece to the award cycle, and scholarship administrators are dependent on them to complete the rest of the scholarship process. If reviews are delayed, awards are delayed, which ultimately means students do not get the funds they need on time. Pro Tip : Allow for reviewer “make-up days.” Life happens.

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3 Challenges and 4 Solutions to Increasing Scholarship Applications

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This complicates and prolongs the award process and contributes to a more significant issue: underutilized scholarship funds. Keeping scholarship information within siloed systems not only makes it harder for students to find those funds, it also creates smaller, disparate applicant pools throughout campus.