The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

Proposals must identify a problem and offer a solution that promises significant and durable change. Some problems cannot be solved by grants of the size that foundations typically provide. Applications will be accepted online only , from May 22 to August 15, 2024. Complete applications are due before 5 p.m. times the original plan.

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Program Homeless Award Proposal 105

Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

As AI is increasingly used in high-impact ways such as writing and assessing grant proposals, how can we make sure that it is used ethically, minimizing the risk of harm? Similarly, we saw evidence that the model was associating “People of Latin American descent” with “Incarcerated people.”

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. The Data Deluge in Grantmaking: Drowning in Information Remember the days when grantmaking relied on paper proposals and handwritten reports? Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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Data Impact Government Proposal 71

Bloomerang

MARCH 10, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether it’s okay to apply for a corporate grant and sponsorship at the same time: Is it okay to make an ask for a sponsorship (say, for an event) from a corporation AND separately to that corporation’s independent charitable foundation? Purpose of the grant (e.g.,

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Grant Homeless Proposal Foundation 53

sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

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. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 77

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. Many receive a combination of both. has a different meaning?

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Software Guide Award Grant 293

sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Just over one in five respondents (22%) have augmented their writing efforts, such as grant proposals, annual appeals, ad creation, social media posts through the use of AI. And a few mentioned AI-enhanced door stewardship efforts and predictive modeling. Artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly moved into the discussion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. The art aspect refers to how well an inspired writer describes a project and the grant-seeking organization. Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest.

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Grant Effective Tips Proposal 40

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

I’m referring to ChatGPT , a revolutionary language model developed by OpenAI that’s changing the game in every industry. It’s the second chatbot to ever pass the Turing Test , the current standard for measuring sophisticated AI models. Grant Proposal And that’s not all. Well, there’s a solution.

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 94

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Additionally, this makes it a breeze to provide past impact reports and future projections for grant proposals. Say you rely on one platform for your organization’s accounting work, another for grant management, and another for online fundraising. Create a request for proposal (RFP). Review their proposals.

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Data Guide Proposal Nonprofit 52

sgEngage

JANUARY 22, 2024

Simply put, the people who write grant applications may be surprised to discover how difficult it can be for respondents to understand and answer their questions.” If that funder’s application includes lots of jargon or technical phrases such as, “Tell us about your Theory of Change,” or, “What is your program’s Logic Model?”

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Question Application Reflection Philanthropy 87

Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

To this end, the Job-Demands-Resources model offers a simple equation: burnout = demands > resources. This model highlights three important things to understand about burnout: Burnout isn’t about too many demands but demands without enough resources. deadlines, reporting, grant applications) when possible.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 70

sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Multi-year, unrestricted funding gives grantees the flexibility to assess and determine where grant dollars are most needed, and allows for innovation, emergent action, and sustainability. Do the Homework : Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.

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Philanthropy Literacy Gift Grant 74

sgEngage

MAY 13, 2022

Long waiting periods for grant approvals, uncertainty about grant renewals, hard-to-reach program officers, and sudden shifts in grantmaking strategy put nonprofits in a constant guessing game. However, when funders proactively model transparency, power awareness, and vulnerability, it can be transformative.

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Relationship Foundation Grant Fund 80

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Gallucci and Roy jointly announced a partnership of philanthropic organizations investing more than $15 million in grants to 23 projects as well as an additional $13 million available in the coming year for innovative projects that will increase the participation, quality, and relevance of secondary education.

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Education Philanthropy Africa Foundation 164

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Required documents: To obtain grants, you need proof of your nonprofit status or fiscal sponsor. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.” Develops new programming Writing proposals introduces the opportunity for new or enhanced programming. In what zip codes do they live? Any testimonials?

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 74

Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Generative AI Tools ChatGPT – This AI model can help nonprofits create briefs and outlines, draft content and emails, and develop interactive chatbots for supporter engagement. Nonprofits can use it for content creation, data crunching, grant writing, and more.

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Tools Nonprofit Analytics Metrics 45

Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. What’s more, tools like GPTzero.me

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Ideas Model API Language 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Having a framework is the magic wand to writing a successful grant proposal. Most people don’t write grants with this in mind. Most grant writers just start with long responses to grant applications, instead of first setting up their own plan. This 6-step GRANTS Writing Formula can help!

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Grant Award Project Proposal 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 26, 2013

Carolyn Owens , Grant Writer & Partner. This is part two of Carolyn Owen''s series on gathering and using data for grant proposals. Data is a vital part of your grant application. So how do you intertwine data in the proposal so that it supports and amplifies your cause rather than obfuscate it? 501 Navigation.

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Data Childhood Impact Proposal 73

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

And one of the biggest event-driven fundraising models shuttered their doors. Small to mid-sized nonprofits: rather than hiring your fifth development director in three years, consider outsourcing your creative and/or grants, freeing up your fundraiser’s time for growing relationships. Only to decline again in the uncertainty of 2023.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Organizations that rely on donations and grants for funding are being forced to look at their revenue portfolios and determine whether their revenue streams will be sustainable in the foreseeable future. Nonprofits are reimagining funding models and will have to think innovatively to ensure their mission continues.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The solution has built-in custom predictive modeling, including Expected Value Index (EVI) and Probability to Donate Index (PDI) models that are built from scratch for your specific organization. With this, you can benchmark against overall efficiency, contacts acquired, new households visited, proposals granted, and more.

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

sgEngage

APRIL 21, 2021

Multi-year, unrestricted funding gives grantees the flexibility to assess and determine where grant dollars are most needed, and allows for innovation, emergent action, and sustainability. Do the Homework: Oftentimes, nonprofits have to jump through countless hoops just to be invited to submit a proposal.

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Adopt Philanthropy Tips Script 75

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

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 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Monitor Group senior consultant Heather Grant McLeod made the fascinating point that many of these established organizations began life as networks but adopted centralized organizational structures to bend to their funders or funding model. The visual is vertical as is the work of a traditional organization.

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Network San Francisco Organization Develop 89

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Within the arena of startup incubators, however, Benetech’s social enterprise business model and Benetech Labs’ approach are unique. The typical incubator model works well where a team has formed around a technology innovation and is looking to graduate a for-profit company. Let me explain how this is so.

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Technology Profit Application Method 163

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. Instead of grant deliverables or profit, passion and impact are the bottom line motivators for change. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ).

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Community Library Model Adopt 167

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

But, many of the others were eager to think through the challenges of adapting this model to their organization, and how it might work well. I used the example of Kristen Cibelli, one of our field human rights workers, who got a mini-grant to go to meet with grassroots human rights groups in Liberia.

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Fund Social Liberia Money 154

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). Assessment of 46 OE grants to networks awarded 2009-2011, conducted by Monitor Institute (2012).

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Effective Program Work Review 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO research released at the opening plenary suggests some candidates – stop processing so many papers and stop the annual grant treadmill in favor of longer term grants. Let’s say you saved even an hour’s worth of paperwork per grant. How many hours could be freed up across the foundation?

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Culture Public Learning Reflection 91

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? From grants to venturing. Fundraise, grant, spend – it’s not efficient. Finally, a lot of new ideas, the newness is the business model. Building an audience around the 6 ideas for the weekend.

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Social Grant Fund Model 105

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. We have a model for this kind of change: TTYs (text telephones) and relay services though the telephone. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Old Clearinghouses rapidly became out of date, especially after the initial grant expired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Selected applicants will receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud. It is not necessary to use Google tools in order to create an AI project or create an eligible AI Impact Challenge proposal.

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Google Challenge Interview Impact 84