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From Data Deluge to Impactful Decisions: Mastering Data in Grantmaking

sgEngage

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?

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Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector 

Candid

A recent Salesforce survey found that more than a quarter of respondents are using AI tools at work, more than half of whom are using AI that is not approved by their organizations, including in the social sector. We continue to refine the data we use for training and evaluating our grants auto-coding system.

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Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling

Tech Soup

Start Your Grant Proposal with a Story. So, why would we not want to use this powerful communication tool when writing grant proposals? When I began writing proposals, storytelling was the only way I knew to convey the problems my organization faced and what we were doing to overcome those problems.

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. By far, those two stats are higher than any other country surveyed. Why is that?

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

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them. Center for Effective Philanthropy: Grantee and Applicant Perception Reports.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Be familiar with the organization’s case for support, annual reports, theory of change, and other collateral materials. Can you survey nonrenewing donors to see why they didn’t renew? Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Is the donor renewal rate low? It’s easier than it sounds.

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4 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Needs A Holistic Operations Consultant

Bloomerang

If your organization needs to improve its grant writing skills, it is likely you are only going to seek grant writing consulting. The vendor can teach you how to pull all the data out of one system and put it into a new system, based on how you want the reports to look. That is a very specific project.