sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

Operations at Headwaters Foundation for Justice , a foundation that invests in grassroots organizations across Minnesota, were humming along well. To meet demand, the foundation launched two rapid response funds for public health and social justice initiatives within a month of each other. But that also presented a challenge.

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Philanthropy Community Time Blackbaud 52

Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2017

Data champions —whether inside a nonprofit organization or a foundation—know that data on its own doesn’t accelerate impact on its own. It’s when you take that data and use it to guide stronger strategies and foster collaboration that data becomes a driver for change.

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Foundation Data Measure Dallas 37

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. TechSoup is proud to announce our newest donor partner, Box.org.

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Files Collaboration Share South America 36

sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

According to Chantal, “We’re in a place now where philanthropy is thinking about how do we, as funders, collaborate and collectively fund infrastructure, like a shared data platform, like the ability for nonprofits to move to the cloud.”. The technology, while foundational, is just the start. Using Infrastructure to Drive Change.

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Conversation Support Application Nonprofit 76

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Demographics: Foundations and corporate funders will want to know who is benefiting from your nonprofit’s services. Organized recordkeeping is key. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 70

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Partnering together, we collaborate to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference for others. With aligned missions–and wonderful people–we knew we wanted to collaborate with Qgiv! We provide services to every sector, whether it’s arts and culture, human services, foundations and associations, and more.

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Group Chicago Tag Consultant 52

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. That approach to grant writing doesn’t work, by the way. Another way to structure a plan is in a calendar format.

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Fundraising Activities Active Activism 134

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Nonprofit Management.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas San Diego 111

Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Participants will acquire a foundational understanding of this increasingly important component of fundraising strategy and will be able to identify and distinguish between the most common planned giving vehicles. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Nonprofit Management.

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Calendar Conference Las Vegas DC 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Guest Post by Heather Grant-McLeod. These new collaborative initiatives pull together various players (often government, private sector and nonprofits) within an ecosystem, defined by issue and/or place, to coordinate and align their action to drive greater impact. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content.

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Build Change Social Facilitation 112

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2021

said Cory Howat, Executive Director of the Catholic Community Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. “We For example, some foundations or organizations don’t support faith or religion-based organizations, said Gillian Doucet Campbell, Director of Stewardship and Development for the Anglican Diocese of Niagara in Ontario, Canada.

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Fund Raise Money Organization 119

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Including specifics about the role.

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Job Roles Skills Nonprofit 59

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2016

For their part, foundations have tuned in well to nonprofits’ focus on being mission-driven. In my experience, two dominant frames are now shared by foundations and nonprofits. The annual reports of foundations celebrate how much money they have spent in a given area. Achievement lets both foundations and nonprofits stand out.

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Language Foundation Proposal Nonprofit 20

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2008

That's a lot of nonprofits, many that are doing similar work and competing for funding from foundations and individual donors. I hope that one of the results of this award will be a guide and training to help other nonprofits to pool their collective knowledge, skills and resources in successful collaborations.

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Collaboration United States Award Nonprofit 40

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources.

Accessibility 104

Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Strategy Public Evaluation Foundation 98

Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

The majority of these respondents (68%) indicated that they either applied for more or the same number of grants as they had the year before. So the overall pursuit of grants by education organizations did not change dramatically this past year. public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades.

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Education Grant Government Award 50

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Carefully consider fee structures to find the right balance between access to features and a high net donation amount. Top feature: Slack’s foundational feature is channels. This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing. transaction fee per donation.

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Software Free Tools Adobe 84

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

A strong fundraising strategic plan starts with a solid foundational case statement. Check your organization’s website, recent RFPs, grant proposals, etc. Don’t forget - despite the structured, sometimes mechanical feel a fundraising plan can have, storytelling does have a place in the planning process. Data source: Giving USA.

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Guide Fundraising Nonprofit Template 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Two reports have been released on the topic of capacity building: “ Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together ,” from GrantCraft, a service of the Foundation Center and “ Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity ” from GEOfunders. This post summarizes gems from both reports.

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Report Build Evaluation Nonprofit 50

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Most of us take it for granted that the U.S. This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). National Highway Traffic Safety Administration assigns every vehicle a Vehicle Identification Number (or VIN).

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Global Tools Synchronous NGO 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In fact, this may be one of the largest collaborative social media efforts in the nonprofit world. Social media success: collaborate, inform, build, engage. GiveMN staff will also be giving updates and announcing the hourly prize grant recipients. No doubt social media is a key part of our promotional and event strategy.

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Social Media Minnesota People Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Why Use One?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Speak candidly with any prospective consultant partners to develop a clear understanding of their fee structure. Getting Attention – Google Grants. They understand that strong compensation structures are essential for building a scalable, sustainable organization that retains its talent and grows year over year. Data hygiene.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Corporate presence and visibility in the community have been most effectively accomplished through relatively low cost/high yield investments, including short-term project grants, event sponsorships, cause-related marketing, voluntarism and hands-on projects, in-kind giving (e.g.,

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Social Model Government Philanthropy 85

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered. However, the traditional reliance of nonprofits on governmental and charitable funding is increasingly unsustainable.

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Model Fund Social United States 53

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The Packard Foundation asked me to write a blog post about our 2016 staff restructuring (which they supported with a capacity-building grant). You can read the original post on the Packard Foundation's Organizational Effectiveness site. But I resisted structure. And so we stayed egalitarian and collaborative.

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Org Learning Structure Museum 20

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. We are here to talk about “Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle.”

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2017

One of the most exciting parts of 2017 for me so far has been to see how many nonprofit organizations and foundations are becoming more and more passionate about outcomes measurement. On the funder side, it means structuring your programs and thinking toward funding outcomes and change, not organizations or individuals.

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Measure Impact Tips Collaboration 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace.

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Open Community San Francisco Associations 91

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Charlene Flaherty, the Associate Director of the Southwest Corporation for Supportive Housing, further adds that it is critical for nonprofit organizations accepting impact investments to have a refined organizational structure, including good governance, risk management procedures, and financial systems.

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Impact Social Arizona Homeless 40

CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s face it: consistent funding is the lifeblood of nonprofit work – without it, we cannot create the impact we want in our communities; and from individual giving to foundation grants and everything in between, there are so many different ways to go about fundraising. Again, remember to follow the guidelines!

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Strategy Organization Fundraising Grant 82

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. Lisa Tacker and her team at Two Ten Footwear Foundation , a charitable foundation based near Boston, were scrambling.

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Advice Tech Sharepoint Grant 72

NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

David Krumlauf, Chief Technologist, Pierce Family Charitable Foundation. This invaluable bunch works with NTEN to design core curriculum tracks, conference structure, and thematic focus. Jeff Yin, Founder & Google Grant Ad Strategist, Sustainable Clicks. Melissa Campbell, Campaign Associate, Casey House Foundation.

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NTEN National Celebrate Volunteer 63

Greater Giving

JANUARY 9, 2024

Corporate Partnerships Amplifying Impact Through Collaboration Forming partnerships with businesses is a strategic move that benefits both parties. Corporate sponsorships and cause-related marketing collaborations not only provide financial support but also enhance brand visibility.

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Stream Impact Fundraising Channel 81