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Stop the Boilerplate Burnout: How to Keep Your Grant Story Fresh Without Losing Your Sanity

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

New leadership, shifting priorities, evolving language around DEIeverything changes constantly, and if youre not careful, your boilerplate starts to look like a relic from 2019. Its managed, maintained, and shared. Keeping the organizational grant story updated can feel like trying to change a tire while the cars still moving.

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Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential

Blackbaud

As the senior manager of digital and data at the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation , Im always looking for new ways to eliminate friction between our organizations mission to prevent osteoporosis and my teams ability to realize it. In the past five years, we have exceeded expectations. Could you have more accurate data fields?

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Arts nonprofits saw revenue fall in every category in 2024. What lies ahead? 

Candid

Since 2019, U.S. To help navigate the increasingly complex challenges ahead, SMU DataArts analyzed trends based on financial data from 6,498 arts nonprofits that submitted a Cultural Data Profile between fiscal years 2019 and 2024.

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Contributions To DAFs, Distributions Both Decline

The NonProfit Times

The growth in charitable assets under management is attributable in part to gains in global financial markets. The Donor-Advised Fund Report is compiled with data from 1,140 charitable sponsors that reported assets in any year from 2019 through 2023. return in 2022. Charitable assets in all DAF accounts totaled $251.52

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The most read Candid insights articles in 2024: Fundraising, AI, and diversity 

Candid

Candids contracts and compliance manager explains how an AI policy can help maximize the benefits of using these toolsby proactively mitigating risks inherent in AI, establishing clear operational standards and procedures, and preparing for the future. Of course, the impact of AI use is not limited to grantwriting.

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The State of DAFs in 2025: Updates on Donor-Advised Funds

Get Fully Funded

These charitable giving accounts, which are established by individual donors but managed by sponsoring organizations, have historically been a source of excitement for nonprofits. With this funding available, securing DAF grants has become a staple of smart nonprofit cash management.

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Annual Giving Basics: A Fundamental Guide for Yearly Donations

Blackbaud

Case management and advocacy: Supports staff who work directly with individuals and families to navigate challenges and access resources. Revenue per donor is increasing: The average donor gave $865 in 2023 compared to $673 in 2019. Total donor count is decreasing: The number of donors who gave in 2023 decreased by 5.3%