sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Financial Management Luminary Session Panel Discussion: Using Your Voice in a Sea of Change *don’t miss* Your finance team touches all aspects of your organization—grant programs, fundraising goals, vendor management. Here are a few sessions that will inspire you to rethink your workflows.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. Ask what they want to see as a result of grant funding and how they will know that it has happened?

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Organizations play funders’ perfection game by writing grant proposals and making promises to funders as if they can predict the future.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

That’s where change management comes in. By implementing a change management strategy that’s geared towards their specific circumstances, nonprofits can help their staff members adopt new systems quickly and effectively. Change management: What is it?

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

This trend is not limited to a specific size or experience level of nonprofits, as both large and small, experienced and new, are venturing into these funding opportunities. However, many organizations are unprepared for the multitude of regulations and requirements associated with managing federally funded programs.

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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. Ensure your marketing, website, and social media appeal to a broad audience and reflect an ever-changing student population.

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Education Student Award University 81

sgEngage

JANUARY 29, 2024

For grantmakers, it’s important to stay on top of technology and industry trends so you can understand—and possibly guide—your grantees. Make Room for New Ways of Learning Learning is a journey. Sometimes to pick up new tools, you have to put some down.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Tying together rescue operations, grants management, and donor data they have a full understanding of what is happening in various countries, quantified by data, showing that programs work. A long time Salesforce customer, they made the switch from a legacy system and used Salesforce to build the Justice Data Solution.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

Don’t be afraid to lean on this community to inform best practices and assist in your organization’s change management with your new platform. Concurrently, Salesforce.org’s most recent Nonprofit Trends Report revealed that 56% of nonprofits have accelerated their move to digital programs. Learn from Past Salesforce Success.

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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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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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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Say you rely on one platform for your organization’s accounting work, another for grant management, and another for online fundraising. Strengthen your financial reporting efforts.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Granted, the response has quite a few caveats (such as offloading the responsibility of fact-checking on the end user), but this provides some insight into how it wrestles with questions that don’t have a clear-cut response. He finally got there.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2011

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Sage Nonprofit Solutions Want to create a more rewarding environment to retain and grow your techies? Technologists constantly need to stay up to date on their skills and emerging trends or they will become obsolete. Reap some quick improvement with these easy four tips!

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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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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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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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant’s ” When Millennials Take Over ,” written with Jamie Notter.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is the case whether the focus is eligibility criteria for applicants , determination of a slate of grants, or input into grantmaking strategy. Without knowing why coming together is important, meetings can go astray, people can get frustrated, and trust can be lost.

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