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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. This should be more than a few sentences of high-level goals. Does the proposal include a detailed line-item budget ? Creating a Successful Grant Proposal Evaluation Process. Program Timeline.

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Let it Go: When to Move on from a Major Gift Prospect

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Exit 1: Disqualification Road Exit 2: Proposal Avenue Exit 3: The Stewardship Fork Once you know what road you’re on with a potential donor, you can decide to press the gas or to let it go and move on to a better-fit major gift prospect. The most successful MGOs are intentional about proposals and use them to clear out traffic jams.

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Accessibility Goals: Moving Past Compliance

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With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. List accessibility as a requirement in your Request for Proposals (RFP). Say that you’d like to meet “a minimum of 2.0

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The Beginner’s Guide to Running Your First Capital Campaign

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Smaller gifts from individuals, events, and items like engraved bricks help support the campaign toward the end, when a small amount is left to reach the goal. The Two Phases of a Capital Campaign You will be asking folks for a lot of money and support for this project, and it comes in two phases: the quiet phase and the public phase.

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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

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You start discussing your goals with donors, but they don’t understand why you’re asking for such large gifts. They’ll shape the entire campaign, from the specific fundraising goal you seek to raise, to the case for support you develop and discuss with donors. The plan feels pieced together, and your early efforts lose steam fast.

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Nonprofit Technology Consulting: 6 Steps to Success

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In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. Ongoing support can be especially helpful for organizations interested in completing their project in phases. What are your short and long-term goals? What role will your consultant play in achieving these goals?

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Six Steps On The Leadership Journey Of Development Professionals

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Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Develops new programming Writing proposals introduces the opportunity for new or enhanced programming.