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10 Things to Look for When Evaluating a Grant Proposal

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Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. To help you better review submissions so that you are set up for success, here are 10 items you should look for as you evaluate your grant applications. Organization Background and Experience.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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How to Conduct an Honest Mid-Year Fundraising Evaluation

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When you’re halfway through the year, it’s a good time to conduct a midyear fundraising evaluation. A midyear evaluation will show you how you are doing and highlight areas where you need to improve. And you’ll know exactly how much you need to raise during that season if you take the time to do a midyear evaluation now.

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The Ultimate Guide to Accounting Software for Nonprofits

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How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different? It’s a common misconception that nonprofits don’t focus on financial goals since they’re not generating a profit. In fact, most nonprofits require a minimum level of fundraising each year to reach their mission goals. Many receive a combination of both.

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Where Can Nonprofits Find Hidden Treasure In A Request For Proposal?

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For those familiar with the process, developing an application for any type of financial support (grants, corporate sponsorship , contract, etc.) Start at the beginning to see if they have highlighted strategic priority areas , agency priorities or goals, and objectives they want to achieve.

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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

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They implemented weekly check-ins during the audit so both teams could discuss and collaborate on how to achieve the common goal of completing the audit. This executive director wanted to expand the revenue sources of the organization to include federal grants. This was something that the organization had not done previously.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. You need to constantly evaluate the data and analyze progress. No organization can take its constituents for granted. We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants.