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APRIL 20, 2021

To determine if a nonprofit virtual assistant is right for you, try this exercise: Write down all the tasks you will need to do in the coming month. While you can hire a VA who lives anywhere, there may be advantages to hiring someone who lives locally and is familiar with the community. . Do You Need a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant?

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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. 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 119

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

Mark off a couple of blocks of time on your calendar to research things like supplies, materials, and equipment online or call local vendors to find out what things cost. Repeat this exercise for every line item in your nonprofit’s first budget. Then get estimates from at least 3 vendors so you can see what the going price is.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

Just a few months ago, in November 2019, I sat on my front porch and made my donor-advised fund (DAF) grant recommendations via a donor portal within an app on my iPhone while simultaneously sipping a nice glass of wine. Gone are the days of emailed forms, handwritten recommendations, and returns by fax or snail-mail.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. For this fundraising event, you’ll need to team up with a local paint and sip store like Pinot’s Palette or Painting with a Twist that’s willing to donate a percentage of the night’s proceeds to your cause.

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Candid

JUNE 14, 2023

Grant proposals take a lot of work. So, we asked you on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook: What red flags do funders look out for when reading a grant proposal? Here they are in this crowdsourced list of grant writing red flags. An output is hosting six exercise workshops for 300 students. Did we miss a red flag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

I'm also trying to teach them to make good food choices, get exercise, and be healthy. And, now, there's a new grant program that encourages kids to come up with some ideas themselves. Do Something 's Del Monte grant offering $2500 grants for kids who come up with great healthy living programs for their community.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Many local nonprofits are better positioned than a typical acute care hospital to meet the nonclinical needs of community members. In contrast, making grants to community nonprofits allows hospitals to proactively honor their community benefit commitments in a directed fashion. Grants often have a multiplier effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

But the winner was a story about stepping out an organization’s comfort zone to try to avoid repeating past mistakes. The winner is Heartland Pride and here’s their story: Little Bet: After years of having a local organization that planned pride in the Midwest fail numerous times, our organization was formed.

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JUNE 18, 2023

Finding event venues, searching for grant opportunities, and anything else where it’s simply gathering info. Someone else can pick up those 3 boxes of supplies or that $50 from the local church. Self-care doesn’t have to be a big intensive undertaking! Begin or increase your activity and try to fit in 30 minutes each day.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In addition, nonprofits must comply with the same federal, state, and local laws as businesses regarding the treatment of employees. Project-reliant staffing: Many nonprofits depend on grants and other forms of project or program-specific funding. HR is the department responsible for managing hiring, onboarding, training, and benefits.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As you consider these questions, here are two important exercises that will help you clarify your vision and goals: 1. Your local United Way or similar organization may have a bank of qualified people seeking Board roles, saving you some time and work to find the right person. Sit down and write out the answers to these questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene was the consultant on Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness grant to strengthen the network of a Population/Reproductive Health grantee, The International Institute of Education's Leadership Development for Moblizing Reproductive Health Program. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle.

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Kindful

MAY 12, 2021

If you want to pay to get on Google, read more about the Google Ad Grant. Try this exercise for your organization. There’s technical SEO , off-page SEO , and local SEO. Nonprofit SEO is a digital marketing strategy like digital advertising , email marketing, or social media marketing. The internet is the connector.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

This is an important exercise for every nonprofit. Grants: Don’t estimate grant revenue unless you have a commitment from a foundation and you know FOR SURE that the money is guaranteed. Grants are competitive. If you got a grant from a foundation last year, you might not get it again this year.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. But I know some of you have done this exercise, you know, at your board meeting. . Who do you exercise with? Nails, the car, hair, you know, all those local small business vendors that are potential supporters of the organization. People give to people.

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APRIL 18, 2022

Your local Chamber of Commerce. Joining your local chamber may make sense, especially if they have a nonprofit rate. Attend networking meetings, support local businesses, and propose ways your organization and businesses can work together for mutual benefit. Can you set up a table at a local farmer’s market?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles. They are often segregated to specific grants, programs, or departments rather than being integrated as core offerings. "Fabulous!" "But But our traditional audience doesn't come for that, and we have to find a way to do this without making them uncomfortable." "Hm."

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

Knight Foundation through their Knight Cities Challenge grant, Next Stop: Democracy! By using creative signage and art markerts to indicate polling places and help voters find their way, the project brought back a sense of warmth and vibrancy into Philly’s civic spaces, and encouraged citizens to robustly exercise their civil rights.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Many comments on the DIA fell in this category, e.g. "I would rather my $20 goes to my local schools, police, or fire if they are going to raise my tax." it’s just not about a museum, it’s a local AND regional “quality of life” issue. Detroit, like a lot of cities, is struggling financially on many levels.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. Does that make sense? And I’m looking over. ” Yes.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. If you rely solely on a government grant, what happens when the agency changes its eligibility criteria and you no longer qualify? No private foundation grants. Cue the sad music.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Disorganization can cause you to lose donors, miss grant deadlines, and fall short of revenue goals. minute video where I show you a fun exercise to find out what you should do and what you should STOP doing every day. Or try this exercise: Grab a piece of paper and write down the top 3 reasons why your cause matters to you.

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Product Fundraising Brain Calendar 119

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Adam Grant, his book is right next to me. . Adam Grant talks about in his book, think, what is it? You could start the exercise by just doing that for yourself. . Use the same language, just like when you’re applying for a grant. So that’s something that … oh, I’m just blanking. Share that.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. Are they men or women?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 27, 2020

Or a breast cancer survivor who was pregnant when diagnosed, and she received care thanks to a grant provided to the hospital by Susan G. What your organization does: Marketing consultation for nonprofits like Power for Parkinsons, a nonprofit that helps people with Parkinson’s gain access to free exercise classes and education.

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Marketing Strategy Fundraising Storytelling 72

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Now, if you’re doing the Walmart grants and the Target grants and those retail grants, they’re not asking those questions, right? ” I didn’t exercise this a lot of times, but I did exercise it when needed. They’re giving you $1,000, $500, maybe $2,000.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2022

You have several Board members with strong connections to bring in grant funding, . Let me walk you through an exercise that will help. Assess Your Team’s Fundraising Strengths Next, have everyone on your fundraising team go through the unique brilliance exercise and write down their strengths, too. Feeling stuck?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 14, 2024

Let me walk you through an exercise that’ll help called Unique Brilliance. Assess Your Team’s Fundraising Strengths Next, have everyone on your fundraising team go through the Unique Brilliance exercise in the video above and write down their strengths too. And this exercise will help you uncover that. Feeling stuck?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One exercise you might want to go through to define success is to gather a diverse group of staff and have them answer the following questions: How do you define success for our organization or program? The Local Story: This is about a specific local community and how your project serves them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). Participants were challenged with an active listening exercise while two peers gave presentations on their work with data. The winner would give a grant to the nonprofit of his or her choice.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

It was interesting because one of the exercises that I have people do is I will have them do their own Zoom video, as if they’re making the virtual ask. So one simple exercise that you can do, if you don’t know where to start, it’s your nonprofit’s website. So how do you tell it through a computer screen?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. I thought that I was going to power down a little bit.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And one of the exercises you can use to figure that out is this kind of bullseye graphic, which is in the book but you can easily draw it on a piece of paper. I was in Florida for a workshop, and there was somebody in this workshop who worked for a local farmer’s market. Like is earned media. So I would really think about that.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” And Lynn Grant, a great fundraiser working with Nature Conservancy in Canada, was going into a corporate office a number of years ago, they were going to ask for a quarter of a million dollars. Local university, my wife was working there as a major gift person. And we turned this into an exercise. . Harvey: Okay.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. We focus on what is required to build a more just society—in matters of race, health, the environment, and the economy. I’m Amy Costello.

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