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

Lightning Fast Grant Writing

Grant writers, raise your hand if youve ever opened an old proposal and discovered that the current executive director left two years agoand your orgs mission statement has since gone through three rewrites and a rebrand. Weve all been there.

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Using Your Fundraising CRM Software to Its Full Potential

Blackbaud

Make Progress and Stay Organized with Project Management When I joined the foundation in 2019, I met Warren Campbell, a wonderful database consultant and project manager with Campbell Consulting LLC. We had similar methods of writing weekly data check maintenance queries in our CRM, Blackbaud Raisers Edge NXT.

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

Get Fully Funded

Treasury Department introduced proposed regulations to address some concerns surrounding DAFs. The IRS held a hearing in May 2024 to hear public comments on the proposed legislation, which was largely met with backlash from DAF-sponsoring organizations like banks and community foundations. In late 2023, the IRS and U.S.

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

Candid

Now, the other question is Where do foundations stand on AI-generated grant proposals? Based on data from 59,550 public charities that shared demographic data between July 2019 and January 2024, Candids report The state of diversity in the U.S. by Guy Mika, Candid. nonprofit sector demographics by Kyoko Uchida, Candid.

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​Choosing the right certification: a guide to grant writing credentials for professionals

Grant Professionals Association

When tracked separately, certification data showed [e]that 33% of freelancers have a certification as compared to 9% of grant professionals working as employees (GPA, 2019). References: Grant Professionals Association (2019). Why aren't more grant professionals certified? Salary survey and benefits report[f][g].

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2025 Nonprofit Compensation Report: Where do we stand?

Candid

For nonprofit professionals: Advocate for fair compensation A small Las Vegas affiliate of a national nonprofit used the report to propose salary ranges for new positions; the national organization’s cost of living calculations did not reflect the local reality. “We We need to pay staff a living wage.

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The Grants Transparency Act of 2023: Good idea or spitting in the wind?

Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

Ive been writing grant proposals since dinosaurs walked the earth and have seen various attempts to reform the federal grant-making process. The Grants Transparency Act complements the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act passed in 2019. Again, some agencies already do so.