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How to Prepare Your Grantmaking for Economic Uncertainty (and Why Now is Different)

Blackbaud

Not to mention shifting political policies and higher prices on everyday items. Many nonprofits are feeling the strain from a pause in federal grant funding and are working to shift their programs to align with the changes in government priorities. The organizations providing the support may be different than in past downturns as well.

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TechSoup's a Nonprofit: Here's How We Work

Tech Soup

I've spent my whole adult career working for nonprofits that I believe do pretty darn good jobs of serving the needs of their communities, providing valuable services, advocating and educating on behalf of important policy decisions, and do all around good work for the world. TechSoup is high on that list from my vantage point.

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Describing DEIB in Relation to Organizational Leadership

Grant Professionals Association

Grant applications often ask for racial demographics of board, staff, and clients as well as LGBTQ+, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disabilities, age, etc. 2 It may be helpful to point this out in your grant applications. But racial representation seems to be a focus. It can feel invasive or even irrelevant.

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Leaving Academia With Dr. Julie Ann Ward, Dr. Stephanie Weaver, and Dr. Krista Kurlinkus

Grant Writing Made Easy

I started my PhD in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, in one of the more prestigious programs in my field, in 2008. While the timeline of a grant – from the initial call for proposals or opportunity listing to actually receiving the funding – can take months, it still goes faster than academic projects.

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Investing in the Infrastructure of Nonprofit Organizations

Tech Soup

" So wrote Cynthia Gibson, then of the Carnegie Corporation , and Nonprofit Quarterly Editor-in-Chief Ruth McCambridge in a 2008 special issue of that magazine dedicated to infrastructure. And we need advocacy for new levels of excellence and for policies that support our work. million in grants annually.

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Are you ready to age while working in academia?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

While the post focuses on aging and academia, it has implications for grant seekers and grant writers: most federal grants for the delivery of services to the elderly come are derived from the 1965 Older Americans Act administrated by the DHHS Administration for Community Living (“ACL”).

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. Full disclosure, she also manages Simplify , a new partnership between TAG and GuideStar, which is a new approach to applying for grants. John Merritt. Lucy Bernholz.