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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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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Twenty Hats

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The new leader’s fresh approach included revamping the operational structure of the program, dividing, and sharing leadership responsibilities with two additional volunteers. Mary Ann Schmook, a 55+ Volunteer Leadership Program participant, presents her project proposal to classmates.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This week I attended a session with David La Piana , author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view.

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Blue Fox

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Is your capital position and structure strong enough to withstand the ebbs and flows of our economic system? Once you have an amount in mind and the data to back it up, propose it to your board/treasurer/finance committee and discuss. Is your nonprofit ready? Is your financial house in order? If you have a sample, great.

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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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

public education system has thwarted attempted reforms for decades. Unlike most collaborations, collective impact initiatives involve a centralized infrastructure, a dedicated staff, and a structured process that leads to a common agenda, shared measurement, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities among all participants.”

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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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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade. And what she offers is structure and strategy to how to become a better fundraiser through doing some of your own self-reflection. . So Kathleen works with a foundation for a school system, or she works for a foundation in a school system.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The Data Warehouse Architect will serve as the technical lead for implementation projects. Guide the environment management plan and release strategies for projects, validating that the correct development environments, change controls, and deployment plans are in place.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then. So if you are a smaller organization, you might not need to have 100k proposal in the pipeline. Rachel: I mean, that’s a good question.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Once you have decided upon your key messages, you’ll be able to structure your story in a way that ensures that this key message is central to the point of your story. An easy way to identify your key message is to think about the theory of change that you are proposing in your appeal. This will almost always be your key message.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

Maintain a clear accountability structure. Having a well-documented internal control structure and proper separation of duties can ensure that you have sound policies in place prior to starting implementation. Consult your auditor and peers. Brock Klinger, Nonprofit Account Executive, Harbor Compliance.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. That what makes for a great partner is not necessarily understood in a proposal. Well, in the book, I define six elements that power successful communications outcomes.

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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? Because the focus of the book is on organizational structure and not on specific acts or events, Light spends almost no time describing each organization or its particular innovations.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . So maybe your board members randomly tell you about grant opportunities.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

The drone then drifts over the home of someone who has just logged onto the site Scale, which sources workers across the Middle East and Latin America to label images used to guide automated drones systems. Vendor management systems (VMSs) add a further layer of opacity to already murky chains of outsourcing.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. and those Structural adjustment plans had very harsh yet actually superficial theoretical ways of wanting to solve this – and never did) And unfortunately $1.50 Early days – proposal stage… but will happen! Poverty has many causes.

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