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Change Management for Grantmakers: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Journey to Better Grantmaking

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In early 2022, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy began an organization-wide grants change management review. The goal was to become better grantmakers by completing a review of our practices, processes and forms. We incorporated learnings and feedback from grantee partners.

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Beyond the RFP: How to Choose Technology Partners for Impact

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Grants managers are adept problem solvers. We review wire transfer forms for the global distribution of financial resources. These migrations slow us down considerably and distract us from the high-risk compliance and risk-mitigation work primary to our grants manager job descriptions. This is not the case.

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Who’s Responsible for A Nonprofit’s Culture of Philanthropy?

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If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . Because you are the one person, or one department, actually charged with living and breathing philanthropy on a daily basis. You are the philanthropy facilitator. . You’re part of the problem.

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29 Nonprofit Resources to Follow on Twitter

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Fundraising, Research, Philanthropy. Charity Reviews, Philanthropy, Research. Chronicle of Philanthropy :: @ Philanthropy. Nonprofit Technology, News, Training, Australia. Philanthropy, News, Research. Grants Directory, Philanthropy, Research. Charity Ratings, Philanthropy, Research.

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How to find free things: nonprofit students edition 

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The University of San Francisco was the first school to offer a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration less than 40 years ago, and the first School of Philanthropy was created just nine years ago at Indiana University. The site offers training for nonprofit staff that goes into more detail than we do in class. Philanthropy News Digest

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Trends in Grantmaking: Putting Equitable Grantmaking into Practice

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Reviewing Internal Processes for Equity The first place to start is internally with your organization’s operations. Yes, training on empathy and recognizing bias is important, but it needs to go deeper. Review your applications through an equity lens after each grant cycle. How are you recruiting staff and volunteers?

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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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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. Your leadership may set some parameters or fixed criteria around grantmaking goals, grant use, or eligibility.