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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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I often recommend you look to your local community for grant writing courses offered by community foundations and libraries and those available in the continuing education offices of universities and community colleges. GPA chapters are located across the United States. You will be answering many questions in your grant proposals.

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been leading this work at Google.org for five years and was previously at The Bridgespan Group where I helped nonprofits and foundations address strategic questions. It is not necessary to use Google tools in order to create an AI project or create an eligible AI Impact Challenge proposal.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Almost five years ago to the day, I was lucky enough to meet Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor while I was Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. The offers chapters on how to design and build a network, including a special chapter for funders as well as a rich selection of resources.

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4 Free Professional Development Opportunities You Might Not Be Thinking About

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Look at the conference website to see if they are accepting session proposals – since you are already planning to attend, you won’t have extra costs if your session is accepted. Sign up for email newsletters from local chapters of industry associations to get notified when an event is going on in your area.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Sheryl Keeme , Executive Director, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Today, she is proud to lead the Arizona Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, an organization new to Annual Funds. Have you ever been asked what you do for a living and when you responded, the person reacted as though you were Mother Teresa?

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Six Important Tips For Your IRS Form 990

BoardAssist

Everyone is reading your 990 including foundation program officers, corporate giving officers, major donors, job applicants, the media, and regulators. Use language from fundraising solicitations, grant proposals, or the annual report. Six Important Tips For Your IRS Form 990.

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Member Round Up: Opportunity Awaits!

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The Knight Foundation published KaBOOM!: The Fund's Request for Proposal ("RFP") is available, and the Application Instructions and Application Form are available through 5 PM on June 27th, when all applications are due. Have more news to share? Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! Playgrounds that Build Communities.

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