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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 238: Creating an Advocacy Agenda

sgEngage

Phillips, senior director of policy and research at Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, and Melissa Levesque, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Coastal Community Foundation, spoke with Blackbaud’s Sally Ehrenfreid, government relations lead, about implementing advocacy in foundations and their respective journeys.

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How to Write an Effective Grant Proposal

Classy

Grant funds from foundations, government entities, and corporations help nonprofits diversify their income streams. While you can use several marketing elements from your individual donor campaigns in your grant applications, creating effective proposals requires some additional considerations. Contact information. Letters of support.

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Money for your nonprofit: Writing a grant proposal

ASU Lodestar Center

Consequently, nonprofit professionals should be well versed in crafting and compiling well-written grant proposals. Whether you’re appealing to the government, private organizations, individual investors, or charitable donation services, every grant proposal should include the following: Cover letter. Executive summary.

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Four Reasons Nonprofits Should Care About ESG

sgEngage

ESG, or environmental, social, and governance, has become an expected reporting framework for companies that highlights how they are managing risks and opportunities within those three pillars. Tim explained that adopting an ESG framework can be as simple or as complex as needed.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AI is developing faster than our regulatory system is prepared to handle and threatens to consolidate power in the tech companies and oppressive governments that deploy AI while making society vulnerable to AI biases, surveillance, and other dysfunctions. Will people be better off in 2030?

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them. Decolonizing Wealth – Nonprofit Radio Podcast. Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders. Community engagement governance. A Call to Modernize American Philanthropy.

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Public Media At Risk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Obama Administration has proposed a slight increase in funding for CPB. The current political reality suggests that there will be deep cuts in government spending of all types. But really, the debate should not be between deep cuts and holding steady. It’s a good place to start.

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