sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

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. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” Their response in year two?

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Blue Fox

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

"Getting actionable financial data for grant writing all comes down to the setup of your financial systems." If you are a nonprofit executive director or a development professional who’s tasked with writing grant proposals, you’ve probably thought to yourself: there must be a better way. And you’re right.

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Classes Grant Chart Tips 78

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Set criteria for contacts, proposals, planning, and forecasting. Successful organizations create a quantifiable performance evaluation using fundraising software to identify the top 3–4 metrics. Fundraiser Performance Management includes predictive models, peer benchmarks, and year-round consulting to improve fundraising results.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal. Evaluation Plan. Outcomes 3. Timeline 6.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. However, there is still a lot of confusion about what knowledge work is, what it is for, and how to do it.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Tech Impact’s managed services can improve the security of your systems by providing updates, patches, firewall management, and virus protection. A quick consultation with Tech Impact will evaluate whether your nonprofit or foundation can benefit from outsourcing its IT. IT Support and Consulting Services at TechSoup.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can create systemic processes to overcome that challenge across your entire team. This includes notifications and reminders for proposals that need to be sent and key touchpoints coming up (ex: to follow up on gifts recently made, reach out for an upcoming birthday, etc.). Work with a tech consultant to set up the solution.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Are you ready to evaluate the success of your major gifts program? But, to be honest, carefully tracking and evaluating each and every point would be more stress than it’s worth! This should be a quantitative system for measuring each data point you’re tracking. 3 Tips to Track Major Gift Metrics More Effectively.

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Robert Weiner

MAY 4, 2010

I received the following email from Keith Heller , a database consultant who works with Raiser's Edge and Common Ground clients: We’ve been involved with responding to many RFPs over the years and I have a general inquiry that is in your bailiwick. " But if you're a vendor it often does.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When your nonprofit needs a new vendor or consultant, the standard course of action is to send out a Request for Proposal (RFP) - indicating that your organization is interested in receiving information from vendors. Do we need a consultant or just someone who can train our staff? And if time is a factor (isn't it always?),

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2017

Get Multiple Proposals for Large New IT Purchases. It is highly recommended, regardless of whether or not you have an MSP, that you always get three proposals for any solution you require. Some of the common instances when you should work with other vendors are cybersecurity, phone systems, and wireless. What's the plan?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. Actually, a client had a grant proposal, and it included the consultant’s “theory of practice&# which of course is something that most organizational development/effectiveness type consultants have, but rather few technology consultants have.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

She is a consultant for Target Analytics at Blackbaud. OK, so your organization has a systemized way to manage identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding your prospects and donors. This guest post was authored by Carol Belair. You may reach her at carol.belair [at] blackbaud [dot] com. Congratulations!

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Data Tips Blackbaud Gift 44

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 9, 2016

Even before this slow change began, my own grants system strategy, intended for smaller nonprofit organizations with limited development staff, advocated targeting small to mid-sized foundations. And I haven’t even mentioned the hair-pulling reporting requirements of the larger foundations. In a smart way. You never know what you’ll discover.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

I’m often asked to help nonprofits define a technology roadmap – that is, figuring out how to migrate their business from a legacy system(s) to a new solution(s) and beyond. ” As with everything in the consulting profession, the answer is “maybe.” ” The answer is typically “yes.”

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Request for proposals, or RFPs, help define projects, set expectations, and ensure the right clients and/or vendors are selected to help businesses grow effectively and efficiently. An exception to this would be if any unique or problematic processes that are identified that may impact the system selection process.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

If you all don’t know Marie, she is the lead consultant over at Funding for Good. one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades.

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Report Measure Process Impact 82

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade. So I saw this as a pattern and underlying message with these three women in the podcast “Creating Community for Good,” in my studies, as well as what I’ve learned in my readings and exploration as a consultant with nonprofits.

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People Community Video Podcast 81

NTEN

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

At a previous job, I suggested we move from using three Access databases and individual employees’ email programs and spreadsheets to a more robust, centralized, and informative cloud-based Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system. The majority of the rest of the employees took their cue from the top.

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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. So if you are a smaller organization, you might not need to have 100k proposal in the pipeline. Are you using an electronic or digital system? .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

But with change comes new opportunities to evaluate and improve on existing business processes and demonstrate to existing and potential supporters that your organization is dedicated to compliance and ethical accounting practices. Consult your auditor and peers. Brock Klinger, Nonprofit Account Executive, Harbor Compliance.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Light calls out four common questions used to evaluate new ideas: Is this faithful to who we are? Is this a place where staff members are comfortable taking risks?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Now, my second pro tip is to aim for a manageable list size, because you’re going to have to review and evaluate each of the funders. Then that’s my third tip, which is to evaluate the shortlist of potentially aligned funders. These are great ways to evaluate their alignment for you. . Use funder websites and 990s.

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