Blue Avocado
MARCH 12, 2024
Tips for reviewing your nonprofit’s grant prospects. One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I find grants?” But I don’t hear the more important question: “How do I know the grant is right for me?” As many nonprofits are probably aware, multiple sources offer grant funds. How do I find them?
Get Fully Funded
JANUARY 17, 2022
Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. That approach to grant writing doesn’t work, by the way. Engage your Board. Do you need exactly 10?
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 30, 2021
95% of business meetings take place on platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. Placing yourself in the role of your audience will allow you to think outside of your own box. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you. Well, that depends.
Get Fully Funded
JULY 13, 2021
Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar. It’s not fun.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Research points to the emergence of a dynamic generation: educated, industrious, collaborative and eager to build a better world (see slide 10). A good checklist and some recommendations can be found on slides 50-53. It’s a huge group: two billion worldwide. How do businesses and nonprofit reach out to this generation? The Giving 2.0
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 2, 2011
CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 7, 2010
This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. There were some terrific questions and discussion. I’ve included some resources along with the slides here.
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