Everyaction

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Working in major gifts means tracking relationships, points of contact, and data with multiple high-level donors. It’s a lot to keep track off and while it’s easy to get bogged down in the day to day details, major gifts is all about the long game. By looking at reports that group your grants into their different phases (e.g.

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Data Donor Grant Gift 44

Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The Nonprofit Fundraising Strategic Plan Guide explores the fundraising planning process and breaks down each of the necessary elements that will allow you and your team to elevate your next campaign. Check your organization’s website, recent RFPs, grant proposals, etc. We created this guide to help you build just that.

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Guide Fundraising Nonprofit Template 108

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The day started with demonstrations by two projects that have moved past the initial idea phase. In all, over 10 new technology applications were proposed. The proposals aimed to solve problems such as helping new parents track their child's developmental milestones to identifying scholarships that normally go unasked for.

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Hosting Netsquared Phase Proposal 47

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Nonprofit feasibility studies are a key part of the planning phase and for your next campaign you want to know that your team is getting all you can out of the process. Since they aren’t a member of your staff, interviewees are more likely to be honest with them when they give their feedback about your proposed campaign.

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Studies Strategy Proposal Consultant 23

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2013, the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) announced sweeping changes to the grant management process for US federal grant recipients in both pre-award and post-award phases. Federal agencies began developing grant management systems that would provide additional ways to track spending and make it more transparent.

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Grant Management Phase Award 20

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Create a request for proposal (RFP). Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Aly Sterling Philanthropy has a proven track record of success working with nonprofits to grow their capacity and scale up their operations.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next, it’s time to audit your donation process. Research proves, time and again, that a confusing or technically complex donation process will cost you money. But for many donors, the donation process is a moment of spontaneous generosity. So we recommend you make your donation process: As Short as Feasible. Is it simple?

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Websites Donor Test Accessibility 37

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Do you know how much your technology processes are costing you? Now that you’ve identified what the project goals are, pick measurable outcomes to determine what metrics you’ll use to track those goals. Just like building a house, your project (and related costs) consists of three phases: design, build, and maintenance.

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Project Tech Guide Phase 98

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. I received a list of employees on Tuesday, and we were able to process all applications by Wednesday afternoon and issue checks electronically.

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Advice Tech Sharepoint Grant 72

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants. I like looking at the grants’ lifecycle because it really breaks down all the different components of what makes the grant process run smoothly. .

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2019

We’ve tracked the shrinking donor pipeline and proposed the lifetime value strategy as a way to engage with donors and correct a trend that threatens the future of higher education fundraising programs. . Use proposals to manage cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship .

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Gift Program Proposal Create 26

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

They used design thinking to build a “decision tree,” mimicking clinical decision-making with task-specific sections of natural language processing, using a decision-tree. Nonprofit adoption of bots is in the early adopter phase although we are well into the next technology disruption: automation. Engage and Educate. Momconnect.

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South Africa Facebook Impact Africa 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

The process of creating a social media policy includes discussion about the issues, reviewing policies from other organizations , and reviewing and approving the policy internally. The process includes beginning with identifying intent. It looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

We'll discuss some of the major phases of a design project, some of the lingo and jargon you'll encounter, and the tools and skill sets you'll need to set your sights on a great, new site. Week 3: The RFP Process. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right.

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Websites Open Source Library Analytics 48

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

But as many of us have found out the hard way, on-time and on-budget projects do not necessarily mean a new system will realize proposed goals and yield expected value…or that users will even adopt the system as desired. Or would a “phase 2″ be more appropriate for some items?

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Project Articulate Nonprofit Adopt 37