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Navigating Nonprofit Data Warehouses: A Comprehensive Guide

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However, here are some potential use cases to help you visualize the role a data warehouse could play in your organization’s operations: Identify specific audience segments for marketing purposes. Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Set concrete guidelines.

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How to Form and Use an Advisory Board for Your Nonprofit

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But many Advisory Boards sit idle, with members not knowing their role and organizations not knowing what to do with the Board they created. Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

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The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” Their response in year two?

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. However, it was difficult to keep aligned with what the board needed to govern effectively and contribute to the longer-term sustainability desires of the organization.

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How To Write a Grant Proposal: Guide + Templates

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Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. From finding the right grants to writing and applying for them, grant proposals require a lot of research and attention to detail! What is a grant proposal?

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Guest Post: Why it’s worth allowing volunteers to lead (even when it’s uncomfortable)

Twenty Hats

For the past 16 years, I have coordinated volunteer programs within local government. Two years ago, a long-time volunteer “retired” from her position with the ceramics program, giving another volunteer an opportunity to transition to that role. I did not want to give away the good stuff. Fast forward to the present.

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

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders. Going Upstream: Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Justice. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. Community engagement governance. Some say philanthropy isn’t the solution. Are the New Megadonors Distorting American Society?